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Why is time so subjective? Why do I get home at 6:00PM and one hour later, it's 11:30PM?

MichaelD

MichaelD

Lifer
Explain this to me....why is "time" such a subjective thing? Why does a boring 30 minute staff meeting seem to take an hour to finish, while five-hours-worth of a quiet evening at home, cooking dinner w/the GF seem to blow by in an hour? I don't get it at ALL.

Time. Always ticking away...No time left for tomorrow; all we want is more, time, clock-clock ticking in my head, time, clock-clock ticking in my head....

Suddenly, I'm reminded of the song "Time" by Strawberry Alarm Clock.
 
The same thing happens to me in reverse. When I go to work it is all of a sudden quitting time. Then I go home and it takes forever for bedtime to come. Go figger.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
The same thing happens to me in reverse. When I go to work it is all of a sudden quitting time. Then I go home and it takes forever for bedtime to come. Go figger.
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Hmm, I want your life. What really gets me is time always seems to act the same for most people. Like, even people at seperate jobs will normally agree that a week has flown by/drug like there was no end to it despite the fact they had very different weeks. Very strange.
 
I always thought it would be cool to get rid of all the clocks and then just go by an "internal clock" and see how it turns out. Isolated in a house, no outside views or anything. Nothing that counts or times. Just to see what happens. Maybe I'm a nut.
 
Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
I always thought it would be cool to get rid of all the clocks and then just go by an "internal clock" and see how it turns out. Isolated in a house, no outside views or anything. Nothing that counts or times. Just to see what happens. Maybe I'm a nut.
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No, you're not a nut. That WOULD be a cool experiment, but the following things would apply:

1. To be truly isolated and run on your "internal clock" that means no radio, no TV, no intarweb and NO WINDOWS to see the setting/rising of the sun. As humans, I believe we are genetically programmed to rise with the sun and sleep with it's setting. That's how our ancestors did it before the days of the light bulb/electricity.


2. You would still have "the real world" in the back of your head. I.E. if I were to try your experiment on a Friday, I'd know that I'd have to get up at 0500 on Monday morning and that would play on my mind the whole weekend...too hard to be subjective.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
I always thought it would be cool to get rid of all the clocks and then just go by an "internal clock" and see how it turns out. Isolated in a house, no outside views or anything. Nothing that counts or times. Just to see what happens. Maybe I'm a nut.
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No, you're not a nut. That WOULD be a cool experiment, but the following things would apply:

1. To be truly isolated and run on your "internal clock" that means no radio, no TV, no intarweb and NO WINDOWS to see the setting/rising of the sun. As humans, I believe we are genetically programmed to rise with the sun and sleep with it's setting. That's how our ancestors did it before the days of the light bulb/electricity.


2. You would still have "the real world" in the back of your head. I.E. if I were to try your experiment on a Friday, I'd know that I'd have to get up at 0500 on Monday morning and that would play on my mind the whole weekend...too hard to be subjective.
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Well being in Holland last semester, when the sun started setting at 2:30pm and was dark around 3:30... Totally threw my internal clock for a loop.... Its also weird having the sun make 5pm shadows at noon 😀
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
I always thought it would be cool to get rid of all the clocks and then just go by an "internal clock" and see how it turns out. Isolated in a house, no outside views or anything. Nothing that counts or times. Just to see what happens. Maybe I'm a nut.
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No, you're not a nut. That WOULD be a cool experiment, but the following things would apply:

1. To be truly isolated and run on your "internal clock" that means no radio, no TV, no intarweb and NO WINDOWS to see the setting/rising of the sun. As humans, I believe we are genetically programmed to rise with the sun and sleep with it's setting. That's how our ancestors did it before the days of the light bulb/electricity.


2. You would still have "the real world" in the back of your head. I.E. if I were to try your experiment on a Friday, I'd know that I'd have to get up at 0500 on Monday morning and that would play on my mind the whole weekend...too hard to be subjective.
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Well being in Holland last semester, when the sun started setting at 2:30pm and was dark around 3:30... Totally threw my internal clock for a loop.... Its also weird having the sun make 5pm shadows at noon 😀
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how long do you think it would have takken before you got used to it or did you get used while you were there.
 
I guess when youre not bored youre not paying attention
and so it just passes along without you paying attention
then when u do check, its not that often so it seems like it went so fast!
 
how long do you think it would have takken before you got used to it or did you get used while you were there.
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i was there for 4 months and i never got used to it. Granted, it didnt get that bad until the last month or so i was there, but it was weird. I noticed i was tired ALL the time and i never could wake up in the morning since the sun wouldnt rise until 9:30am.
 
Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
i'm reminded of pink floyd- time
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And then one day you come to find,
ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run,
you missed the starting gun.


Really, time is subjective because there is no such thing. We made it up 🙂
 
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