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A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by stefan_ »

gurchik wrote: post #7
krackers wrote: post #3

Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?

What do you mean "in the same sense we do?" Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they start to get impatient if you're late in either. Sure, that example relies on another factor as a frame of reference (hunger, or the sun setting). But don't humans do that as well? Our sense of time shifts dramatically when we're kept indoors without the ability t…

They do not know about daylight saving time, however.

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Post by EGreg »

krackers wrote: post #3

Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?

Smaller animals seem to have much faster muscle twitch and reaction time. It's very likely that they perceive the finer motor control much faster than humans. But if a fly can dodge raindrops, what must it be thinking when it's sitting on a windowsill for like an hour? Is that like 3 days for it?

I don't recommend it, but people have experienced serious time dilation while doing shrooms: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16714323/

Has anyone experienced this? Also this: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.0000...

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Post by account17 »

krackers wrote: post #3

Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?

Anecdotal and very "noisey".

My cat badgers me when I'm up too late (midnight) even though it's been hours since the sun set. She badgers me if I sleep in too long on the weekends, etc.

She seems to have an idea of the day-to-day schedule and get's upset if it's not followed.

So at least cats seem to display evidence of knowing a "schedule" based on more cues then just daylight/hunger

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Post by reitanqild »

ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia, and while I haven't met anyone who has described symptoms as bad as this and also know friends with ADHD who play music seemingly effortlessly, this article was still very interesting to me.

I have understood and it also observed that meditation can help somewhat, and I wonder what else can help for people otherwise function well who struggle with time?

Re: A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time

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Post by jwells89 »

gurchik wrote: post #7
krackers wrote: post #3

Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?

What do you mean "in the same sense we do?" Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they start to get impatient if you're late in either. Sure, that example relies on another factor as a frame of reference (hunger, or the sun setting). But don't humans do that as well? Our sense of time shifts dramatically when we're kept indoors without the ability t…

My cat has a particularly keen sense for when dinner time is. He starts reminding me at 5PM, often on the dot. One could probably set a clock to it.

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Post by Trasmatta »

latchkey wrote: post #10
krackers wrote: post #3

Do animals have a sense of time in the same sense we do?

From what I've read, dogs can smell time through the decay of scent particles. They don't know that an hour has passed, but they know that something doesn't smell as strongly. They understand day/night, but don't understand the concept of time the way we do.

Regardless, the dogs I've known have known the exact time for breakfast and dinner better than any humans I've known, and without any clocks to look at

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Post by js2 »

Diane Van Deren is an ultra runner who had part of her brain removed to treat her seizures. It also affected her ability to perceive time and to read maps.

She originally started running to self-treat her seizures, but eventually running no longer staved them off.

Oddly, not being able to perceive time may have benefitted her running:

> Dr. Gerber credits her endurance in part to her brain limitations. He says runners who can better track time and map where they are can be distracted by the details. But Van Deren has a special facility for what he calls “flow” that lets her transcend the anguish of running long. “It’s a mental state,” Gerber says. “You become enmeshed in what you’re doing. It’s almost Zen. She can run for hours and not know how long she’s been going.”

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21763474/fixin...

I first heard about her on Radiolab:

https://radiolab.org/podcast/122291-in-running

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