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> Nearly 50 percent of people experienced time dragging during March, whereas about 24 percent perceived it to be speeding up. For me it's been a paradoxical b

> Nearly 50 percent of people experienced time dragging during March, whereas about 24 percent perceived it to be speeding up. For me it's been a paradoxical blend of the two, months seem to drag on forever, but the week blazes by. Every time we get to Friday it feels as if Monday was just a day or two ago. Bizarre.

JTon 6y ago
A paradoxical blend for me too, but interestingly opposite to yours. Week seem to drag and months seem to blaze
- OGWhales 6y ago
  Yeah that’s how it for me. One week takes all eternity compared to what I’m used to a week feeling like. Yet a month goes by in the blink of an eye. Odd feeling and doesn’t make sense
gnulinux 6y ago
Exactly the same for me. It feels like time is passing extremely fast, but at the same time it's the same "late March" that is being dragged for ages. Last week I told my therapist that it feels like I meet her every 2 hours. It really does feel this way. Suddenly it's monday, suddenly it's friday, suddenly it's monday again. And I'm living alone with a cat. I can't imagine how this is with people living with a whole bunch of children.
- baq 6y ago
  from experience - there're neither weekdays, weekends nor weeks at all anymore, just tireday and lesstireday :)
- cgriswald 6y ago
  Actually it’s my kid that keeps me knowing what day it is since she still has classes and we have scheduled chores.
JoeAltmaier 6y ago
The same reason 30 minutes in a dentist waiting room seems like hours, while a day at the amusement park seems to pass in a flash. Novel experiences and their rate must be involved.
raihansaputra 6y ago
"The days are long but the years are short" - ??? Paraphrasing, but this is a phrase that's often used on uncertain situations. It feels like that too for me.
- raihansaputra 6y ago
  I think the elaboration from Viktor E Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning is the best piece of writing on this. "The unemployed worker, for example, is in a similar position. His existence has become provisional and in a certain sense he cannot live for the future or aim at a goal. Research work done on unemployed miners has shown that they suffer from a peculiar sort of deformed time—inner time—which is a result of their unemployed state. Prisoners, too, suffered from this strange “time-experience.” In camp, a small time unit, a day, for example, filled with hourly tortures and fatigue, appeared endless. A larger time unit, perhaps a week, seemed to pass very quickly. My comrades agreed when I said that in camp a day lasted longer than a week. How paradoxical was our time-experience! In this connection we are reminded of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which contains some very pointed psychological remarks. Mann studies the spiritual development of people who are in an analogous psychological position, i.e., tuberculosis patients in a sanatorium who also know no date for their release. They experience a similar existence—without a future and without a goal."
  - sriacha 6y ago
    Thank you, this is a nice quote.
icedchai 6y ago
With me weeks fly by, but some days, often Monday, seem to last forever! It doesn't make much sense.
furyofantares 6y ago
In normal circumstances, the present and the past are always opposite speeds for me. If I've got nothing going on, the present takes forever, I'm bored. But once a prolonged boredom is in the past, it feels like it was fast -- there's not much to remember. If I'm super busy, the present goes by super quick. I never get bored and always have stuff to do. But if I look back at a prolonged period of busy time, it feels like it took a long time -- I have lots of stuff to remember.
- kaybe 6y ago
  And then there's intercontinental travel days. (I try to time them so I arrive around noon at the latest so I can get my bearings and make sure I can reach my accommodation safely no matter what and ideally explore a little.) At the end of a day like this the memory of having woken up to start that day at some point becomes very distant, like it happened ages ago. At the same time, the day doesn't fly by fast either. I think it helps to interact with the world that much and get out of my head. It reminds me of being a child a little, so many new things to discover and so many things that cannot be readily understood and still trusting that it'll be fine.
alephnan 6y ago
The days are long but the decades are short https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
war1025 6y ago
My wife and I have had several disagreements over whether something happened last weekend or two months ago. It all sort of blends together at this point.
jejunebug 6y ago
"what a week today has been"

JTon 6y ago

A paradoxical blend for me too, but interestingly opposite to yours. Week seem to drag and months seem to blaze

OGWhales 6y ago
Yeah that’s how it for me. One week takes all eternity compared to what I’m used to a week feeling like. Yet a month goes by in the blink of an eye. Odd feeling and doesn’t make sense

gnulinux 6y ago

Exactly the same for me. It feels like time is passing extremely fast, but at the same time it's the same "late March" that is being dragged for ages. Last week I told my therapist that it feels like I meet her every 2 hours. It really does feel this way. Suddenly it's monday, suddenly it's friday, suddenly it's monday again. And I'm living alone with a cat. I can't imagine how this is with people living with a whole bunch of children.

baq 6y ago
from experience - there're neither weekdays, weekends nor weeks at all anymore, just tireday and lesstireday :)
cgriswald 6y ago
Actually it’s my kid that keeps me knowing what day it is since she still has classes and we have scheduled chores.

JoeAltmaier 6y ago

The same reason 30 minutes in a dentist waiting room seems like hours, while a day at the amusement park seems to pass in a flash. Novel experiences and their rate must be involved.

raihansaputra 6y ago

"The days are long but the years are short" - ??? Paraphrasing, but this is a phrase that's often used on uncertain situations. It feels like that too for me.

raihansaputra 6y ago
I think the elaboration from Viktor E Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning is the best piece of writing on this. "The unemployed worker, for example, is in a similar position. His existence has become provisional and in a certain sense he cannot live for the future or aim at a goal. Research work done on unemployed miners has shown that they suffer from a peculiar sort of deformed time—inner time—which is a result of their unemployed state. Prisoners, too, suffered from this strange “time-experience.” In camp, a small time unit, a day, for example, filled with hourly tortures and fatigue, appeared endless. A larger time unit, perhaps a week, seemed to pass very quickly. My comrades agreed when I said that in camp a day lasted longer than a week. How paradoxical was our time-experience! In this connection we are reminded of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which contains some very pointed psychological remarks. Mann studies the spiritual development of people who are in an analogous psychological position, i.e., tuberculosis patients in a sanatorium who also know no date for their release. They experience a similar existence—without a future and without a goal."
- sriacha 6y ago
  Thank you, this is a nice quote.

icedchai 6y ago

With me weeks fly by, but some days, often Monday, seem to last forever! It doesn't make much sense.

furyofantares 6y ago

In normal circumstances, the present and the past are always opposite speeds for me. If I've got nothing going on, the present takes forever, I'm bored. But once a prolonged boredom is in the past, it feels like it was fast -- there's not much to remember. If I'm super busy, the present goes by super quick. I never get bored and always have stuff to do. But if I look back at a prolonged period of busy time, it feels like it took a long time -- I have lots of stuff to remember.

kaybe 6y ago
And then there's intercontinental travel days. (I try to time them so I arrive around noon at the latest so I can get my bearings and make sure I can reach my accommodation safely no matter what and ideally explore a little.) At the end of a day like this the memory of having woken up to start that day at some point becomes very distant, like it happened ages ago. At the same time, the day doesn't fly by fast either. I think it helps to interact with the world that much and get out of my head. It reminds me of being a child a little, so many new things to discover and so many things that cannot be readily understood and still trusting that it'll be fine.

alephnan 6y ago

The days are long but the decades are short https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...

war1025 6y ago

My wife and I have had several disagreements over whether something happened last weekend or two months ago. It all sort of blends together at this point.

jejunebug 6y ago

"what a week today has been"