Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception
Claudia Hammond
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0062225200
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond explores the mysteries of our perception of time in her book Time Warped.
Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Why is it almost impossible to go a whole day without checking your watch? Is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it?
In Time Warped, Claudia Hammond offers insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, how to speed time up and slow it down at will, how to plan for the future with more accuracy, and she teaches how to use the warping of time to our own benefit.
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philosopher of psychiatry Martin Wyllie suggests that as an additional diagnostic tool, mental health professionals could ask their clients to estimate the duration of the consultation. I wonder whether you could simply ask them to estimate the passing of a minute. If 40 seconds feel like a minute to them, then time is stretching. The more slowly time is passing for that person, the more severe their condition might be. Time also decelerates for the most anxious cancer patients. The
world. When Damasio asked healthy people to lay out personal and public events from the past along a time line, they were on average two years out. When people with amnesia due to damage to the basal forebrain did the same task, they were wrong by an average of just over five years. But, and this is where it gets interesting, people whose amnesia was caused by damage to a different area, the temporal lobe, remembered the events less well, but could still time-stamp. This suggests that the details
harder to date, and it’s possible they are processed and stored differently by the brain. There is a tipping point that crops up time and again in research – 1,000 days, or roughly three years. Three years seems to be the time-frame we assess best. When Chuck Berry told me the story of his glider crash, he guessed that it had happened three years before, but wasn’t certain. I looked for a report of his accident to check the date. It was two weeks short of three years. He had got it right. Now of
life feels as though it speeds up as you get older. The studies of both personal and public events show that telescoping does not occur as consistently as we might expect. If the theory held, then the older you are, the more you should forward telescope time, but in fact it is the middle-aged who forward telescope time the most. Telescoping undoubtedly occurs some of the time and research on this topic can tell us plenty about how to date events more accurately in our own lives, but – along with
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