I'm talking about time here people. Does it every seem to go slower or faster to you? Like sometimes an hour only seems like a few minutes and a few minutes feels like an hour. I think that this is caused by a chemical in the brain that is secreted when you are doing any activity. I'm not sure if this is true and feel free to prove me wrong because this is just something I was told in eighth grade by my teacher. So
Sorry.. Didn't finish. My mouse is a little messed up on my laptop. Now as I was trying to say. So what do you think causes this and have you ever felt this before? Did it confuse you at all when you had this feeling?
Most of the time during school this happens. Like my history class always seems so long, but my music class seems to go by faster than 80 min. Idk why, I think cuz I enjoy music better than history class.
Yes, that happens most of the time. Most classes are quite boring and drag on as if hours have passed, while the interesting classes seem to be quite short.
It's been proven that when something exciting is happening, it feels like it's taking longer, then when something boring happens, it's hardly remembered. This video (at about 2:20) has a pretty good explanation of this.
I'm sure we can all agree that time does seem to change speeds. The question is "Why?" I've never heard a scientific explanation before. However, I've come up with my own theory, and to my knowledge I have seen no other theories like mine, and it is this: Have you ever seen the movie "Inception"? well if you pay attention during the movie you can catch the fact that the human mind works faster than words and outside world in general, which is true. So, take two instances for example: A person is sitting alone in a room staring at a clock for, say, 2 hours. It may seem to go by slowly because the human mind indeed works quite fast. If you are engaged in an exciting activity for 2 hours, you become distracted, which then directs attention to the outside world thus "slowing" the speed of your thoughts, thus the illusion of a quicker passage of the time. I hope this is a good explanation and maybe starts some good discussion.
