The expansion and contraction of personal time
Have you ever noticed that you're having an amazing experience and time just flies by.
Have you ever been doing something you were really bored by and doing the thing took forever.
Enter the Expansion and Contraction of personal time.
This is a concept I've held for a few years - It quite simply goes like this -
When you're having an amazing time you'll enjoy doing what you're doing and will be very emotionally engadged. At the time when you're having the experience it will feel like time is flying by. Afterwards when you reflect back on that experience and that time you will notice that the time expands out. Thus, while doing things were passionate about (in the very positive or very negative sense, this can also happen duing very traumatic experiences) initially we experience a subjective contraction and then in memory a contraction of time.
When you're bored out of your head, time seems to trickle by and lasts forever. Time is molasses and passes so slowly it feels like watching grass grow in the desert. At the time when you're having the experience it feels like time is almost stopped. Afterwards when you reflect back on that experience and the time you had you will notice it contracts in and you can't nearly remember anything from that time spend. Thus, while doing things we are emotionally disengadged from initially we experience a subjective expension and then in memory a contraction of time.
Thus- The Expansion and contraction of personal time.
I'm still wrestling with myself to find useful applications for this- like analysing what sorts of activities I use to create more time where I'm emotionally engaged.
Do you have any ways that this could be used, or do you use this type of concept in a specific way?
Have you ever been doing something you were really bored by and doing the thing took forever.
Enter the Expansion and Contraction of personal time.
This is a concept I've held for a few years - It quite simply goes like this -
When you're having an amazing time you'll enjoy doing what you're doing and will be very emotionally engadged. At the time when you're having the experience it will feel like time is flying by. Afterwards when you reflect back on that experience and that time you will notice that the time expands out. Thus, while doing things were passionate about (in the very positive or very negative sense, this can also happen duing very traumatic experiences) initially we experience a subjective contraction and then in memory a contraction of time.
When you're bored out of your head, time seems to trickle by and lasts forever. Time is molasses and passes so slowly it feels like watching grass grow in the desert. At the time when you're having the experience it feels like time is almost stopped. Afterwards when you reflect back on that experience and the time you had you will notice it contracts in and you can't nearly remember anything from that time spend. Thus, while doing things we are emotionally disengadged from initially we experience a subjective expension and then in memory a contraction of time.
Thus- The Expansion and contraction of personal time.
I'm still wrestling with myself to find useful applications for this- like analysing what sorts of activities I use to create more time where I'm emotionally engaged.
Do you have any ways that this could be used, or do you use this type of concept in a specific way?
