Casual Conversation

1477 readers

1 users here now

Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.

RULES

Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling
Keep the conversation nice and light hearted
Encourage conversation in your post
Avoid controversial topics such as politics or societal debates
Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate
No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
Respect privacy: Don’t ask for or share any personal information

Casual conversation communities:

Related discussion-focused communities

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Sometimes it feels like weeks or months can go by in a blink. Do you have any tips to feel like time passes slower? (dormi.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I know journaling might be one, and doing new things from time to time, curious if people have other tips

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Time seeming shorter is just the temporal equivalent of depth perception. You have to put as many distinct things between your present and the future, in the same way distinct objects between you and a distant object makes it look further away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is the answer.

Our brains are designed to ignore ordinary things. When you drive the same way to work, do the same things at work all day, come home and ready a familiar meal, then veg out in front of the TV, you've done nothing memorable all day.

Then, in retrospect, the days seem to fly by because you don't have any memory of the time passing.

If you deliberately inject novelty into your days, then you'll have more memory of the events, and your days will seem full.

The other ones here related to memory (journaling both for being mindful of your days but also to reread and trigger the memory retention curve) will also help. I haven't seen sleep mentioned, but good sleep is also key to being alert enough to encode memories, having the energy to try novel things, and rest enough to store and process memories for longer-term retention.

Research also says a 20 minute mid-day nap can help with memory formation (not 50 minutes; a full sleep cycle will make you groggy in the afternoon.)