#Time Perception

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Time Perception

Future ADHD

[purplehalnw]

My ADHD has totally messed up my perception of time.

Like just yesterday I was thinking "it's a shame I wasn't really on social media until pretty recently, I would've loved to be on Tumblr at it's peak."

But then I realized/remembered that I was seven years old when Tumblr was at it's peak in like 2014.

[cartoonfanaticmonsterrobotalien]

To @avaveevo

This is a Tervo Makeup Song 🩵💚

[adhdlivedexp]

Im lucky to have neurotypical friends that make an effort to understand my ADHD.

A NT friend of mine asked me today how long itd take me to do all the cleaning I wanted to do today

I ended up being way off on how long itd take, but before I had a chance to apologise and explain why, they acknowledged right after they asked how long itd take they realised it was pointless asking me because they know my perception of time is very low.

The fact they understand how low time perception means I can’t accurately estimate how long anything will take.

My day is just filled with 5 minutes going by feeling like an hour and other times an hour going by but only feeling like it’s been 5 minutes, hecause of this it’s so hard to gage how long anything takes without me physically timing it each time to get an average time…

[frank-olivier]

Time’s Self-Organizing Principle: A New Perspective

A profound transformation is underway in our comprehension of the universe, with far-reaching implications for the very fabric of reality. The concept of time’s emergence, where time is understood as a dynamic, continually created entity, is revolutionizing traditional notions of the cosmos. This paradigm shift is rooted in pioneering theoretical frameworks, including Professor Avshalom Elitzur’s work and the innovative Two-State Vector Formalism (TSVF) of quantum mechanics, which collectively underscore the notion that time is not a pre-existing given, but rather an outcome of fundamental interactions.

The TSVF and related theories have given rise to a compelling narrative of time’s genesis, where quantum “nothingness” serves as the fertile ground from which space-time itself emerges. This emergent worldview is further reinforced by the potential for negative mass and the TSVF’s predictions of “fake futures” and “past”, effectively dissolving the boundaries between past, present, and future. Consequently, our understanding of causality must now accommodate the fluid, reciprocal relationships between events, replacing the erstwhile linear, time-independent framework.

The universe, once perceived as a static expanse, is transformed into a vibrant, ever-unfolding tapestry, with time as its dynamic, self-organizing principle. This novel perspective invites a profound reevaluation of our existence within the cosmos, encouraging a more nuanced exploration of the intricate interplay between time, space, and matter. As the scientific community continues to refine and experimentally verify these emergent time theories, novel avenues for exploring the cosmos are likely to unfold, yielding a more unified comprehension of existence.

The deep interconnectedness of philosophical and physical aspects of time, now laid bare by this paradigm shift, presents a fertile ground for interdisciplinary exploration. By embracing this synthesis, researchers can distill a more refined understanding of time’s emergence, ultimately illuminating the most fundamental aspects of our reality. As humanity navigates this uncharted territory, it is reminded that even the most entrenched perceptions are susceptible to transformation, underscoring the boundless potential of human curiosity and ingenuity in reshaping our understanding of the universe.

Prof. Avshalom Elitzur: The Universe Writes Itself into Existence Moment by Moment (Curt Jaimungal, Theories of Everything, November 2024)

Thursday, December 12, 2024

[moomoocowmaid]

Yesterday is today, and I’m living three weeks ago.

[heartshattering]

It's October? I hadn't noticed...

[ghostdiva]

time perception is weird...

idk why, but time seems like really slow for me rn. like I'm chilling, maybe scrolling or watching something to pass the time, waiting for the cool things I'm looking forward to, to come out; and time is moving so slowly. usually it passes quicker than this, and it's been like a week or so now, but it feels like it's been longer.

[kalcium-yippee]

I have such a bad perception of time. Not even just in a 'no way its already may, the new year felt like a week ago' but like genuinely I don't know what years or how old I was for life events. I couldn't recall how old I was when I moved to my new house, no idea what year it was when I broke my finger. And these are fairly recent but the concept of time to me is soooo warped. And there are plenty other I forget. Time during the day seems so inconsistent and how long an hour is changes each hour. Also because I can't seem to keep track of time, I forget a lot in those time blips. I feel like I don't have a lot of memories. Occasionally things trigger memories i don't remember happening. It's just strange. My time perception is ass man.

[amihungryorbored]

so, it's friday. my test is in the afternoon. I did not study. at all.

but, to my surprise, what tripped me up wasn't adhd paralysis or anxious procrastination, like usually.

time blindness was the true villain of this story. that bitch kicked me in the teeth and I never saw it coming.

[cartoonfanaticmonsterrobotalien]

My favorite Love Song that Reminds Me of My Favorite Cartoon and Animated Couples

[im-some-lionheart]

I also read somewhere that a specific people (I think it was a native south American people but I'm not sure) perceived humans as walking backwards in time. Normally in western culture we perceive the future as being ahead of us. But this people perceives their past as ahead of them, and the future as behind of them. Because the past is something they know and can see. But they are walking backwards into the future, blindly. And I think that's beautiful.

ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

[gridgamesgalore]

why is time so weird I was only up for 7 hours today ,,, I slept for 11 hours and woke up at 3 pm ,,, uhhhh and it feels like I drew the frekay army go thing 6 hours ago ,, it had only been an hour and a half um ,, what is wrong with my time perception

[mimok]

Embracing the Now: Finding Peace in Presence

Today, I was so busy that I forgot about time, and that was a good day. Time only exists when I stop to think about it, when my mind drifts to places it has not yet arrived. But if I don’t look for it, if I am completely immersed in the flow of doing, time ceases to be something separate. The future, that distant and elusive thing we constantly chase, is nothing more than a thought—an idea…

[burning-beneath]

The Elusion of Time

Time is supposed to be constant. A second is a second. A minute is a minute. And yet, it never truly feels that way. When we’re lost in conversation, when laughter fills the air, when everything around us dissolves into the warmth of a moment—we blink, and it’s gone. Hours feel like minutes, slipping through our grasp before we even realize they were there. But in contrast, when we’re forced to…

[harmonic-psyche]

I found research supporting what @what-if-i-just-did and @foone said. The University of Rochester's science communicator Lindsey Valich reported several recent studies on the topic, like on 2023-02-23:

Our eyes are never at rest. Instead, they remain in motion, even between our voluntary gaze shifts, through fixational eye movements—small, continuous movements of the eye that we are not aware of making…

In a paper published in Nature Communications…the research shows the visual system continually monitors motor activity, even when people believe they are maintaining a steady gaze.

She reported another on 2021-11-19:

Fixational eye movements are tiny movements of the eye—so small we humans aren’t even aware of them. Yet they play a large role in our ability to see letters, numbers, and objects at a distance.

In a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers…[were] studying how a type of fixational eye movement called a microsaccade affects the foveola, a small region at the center of the retina…

The researchers focused on microsaccades, tiny rapid gaze shifts that frequently occur when we’re examining fine details. It’s long been known that vision is transiently impaired during larger gaze shifts, such as those we are aware of making, for instance looking back and forth between two computer screens. This phenomenon of transiently impaired vision is known as saccadic suppression. Until now, however, it was unknown whether a suppression also occurs during microsaccades…

“We observed that microsaccades are accompanied by brief periods of visual suppression during which we are essentially blind…This brief loss of vision likely occurs so that we do not see the image of the world shifting around whenever we move our eyes. By suppressing perception during saccades, our visual system is able to create a stable percept.”

“Human Time Perception And Its Illusions” (David Eagleman, 2008-08-08) reviews many time-related optical illusions:

Here is a do-it-yourself demonstration to set the stage: look at your own eyes in a mirror and move your point of focus back and forth so that you're looking at your right eye, then at your left eye, and back again…

[B]ut here's the mystery: you never see your own eyes move. What happens to the gaps in time while your eyes are moving? Why doesn't your brain care about the small absences of visual input?

Eagleman (2008) specifically describes potential explanations of the “stopped clock” second hand illusion @foone mentioned:

In recent years, several groups looked at time perception around eye movements more carefully. This began with an examination of the ‘stopped clock’ illusion: upon first glance, the second hand of a clock sometimes seems to be stopped in place momentarily before it continues to tick at a normal pace.

Yarrow et al (2001) proposed that the scene the eyes land upon fills the time gap retrospectively [7], such that the eye movement is an integral part of the sense of time. Morrone and her colleagues then discovered that duration judgments were compressed during saccades [8]: when subjects were asked to judge an interval between two flashes near in time to a saccade (by comparison to two more targets well after the saccade), durations were underestimated by about a factor of two (Figure 1a).

More recently, Terao et al (2008) suggested a possible explanation for the saccade results, showing more generally that stimuli with reduced visibility (as stimuli are during a saccade) lead to the same sort of duration compressions [9]. While the data are clear, the mechanisms are still a subject of debate [10].

An intriguing explanatory mechanism for visual subjective time distortion is neuronal repetition suppression:

When a stimulus is shown repeatedly, the first appearance is judged to have a longer duration than successive stimuli [19-22]. Similarly, an ‘oddball’ stimulus in a repeated series will also be judged to have lasted longer than others of equal physical duration…

[N]euronal firing rates in higher cortical areas quickly become suppressed after repeated presentations of a stimulus [26-28], an effect generally known as repetition suppression…We have previously speculated that…a suppressed neural response corresponds to a shorter perceived duration [19].

Note that the duration distortions also occur with higher-level predictability. For example, if the series 1-1-1-1-1 is presented, the first stimulus appears longer…critically, the same illusion also occurs for the sequence 1-2-3-4-5 [19], presumably because the successive stimuli are predictable, even while their low-level shapes differ. This finding indicates that the predictability of successive stimuli involves higher cortical areas than the primary visual cortex, and that repetition suppression may be a special case of prediction suppression.

So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.