Time – How Has It Changed?

Last weekend I headed into the mountains for BC to teach in Revelstoke at a studio I used to visit annually but haven’t in 8 years. With the pandemic and giving birth to Karmen, time has felt like an even more abstract concept than it already was. In some ways, I feel as though I blinked and Karmen is almost 5. I blinked and 8 years has gone by. I was trying to remember the last time I went to India. I thought it was a few years back, it’s been almost a decade! Where has the time gone?

Dr Stephen Taylor writes “What determines our experience of time?…Why does time seem to speed up in some situations and to slow down in others? There is a strong link between time perception and information processing. The more information our minds process, the slower time seems to pass… In a more indirect way, information processing helps to explain why time speeds up in absorption, and slows down when we’re bored. In absorption, we process comparatively little information…We obviously process information from the activity that engages our attention (for example, an entertaining lecture, book or film) but this is quite a small amount compared to other states of mind. We narrow our attention to one small focus and block out all other potential sources of information in our environment. Most significantly, our minds become quiet – largely free of thought – so that we process very little cognitive information…However, when our attention is diffuse or unfocused – in such states as boredom, impatience or anxiety – a massive amount of cognitive information flows through our minds. ” Read the FULL ARTICLE HERE.

Friends – what is your experience of time these days? How has it changed?