I honestly kinda like time seeming to pass faster... Time going slow tends to imply a negative experience for me. Faster, faster!
How can you make subjective time go slower?
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Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#32The article makes a few interesting points, but fails to make the distinction between the two modes in which one can assess the slowness of time: in the moment, and looking back.
Doing something dull, repetitive, routine will seem to take a long time in the moment. However, looking back it won't leave the impression of a lot of time having pased, as your brain will compress similar experiences into one.
The article argues for trying to slow down time looking back (which makes sense to me), but some comments in this thread (bringing up things like meditation) are talking about slowness it the moment.
Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#33Easy - hold a plank
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#35Good idea, but the whole text could've been summarized in like 2 sentences...
Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#36Plank exercise. A minute or two seem to last forever. Or waiting for a microwave to heat your food. Kidding aside, meditation can help, as can just being out in nature without keeping your mind busy by stressing out with a screen in front of you.
I was going to answer planks too! Whenever anyone complains to me about time going to fast, I suggest planks :)
Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#37Plank exercise. A minute or two seem to last forever. Or waiting for a microwave to heat your food. Kidding aside, meditation can help, as can just being out in nature without keeping your mind busy by stressing out with a screen in front of you.
I was going to answer planks too! Whenever anyone complains to me about time going to fast, I suggest planks :)
I have a similar solution for insomnia. "You haven't run enough miles".
Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#38“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies (...) The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin
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#39"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years." Catch-22 The full quote is worth your while: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496826-dunbar-loved-shootin...
The full book is worth your while.
It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire.
https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626...
Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?
#40Plank exercise. A minute or two seem to last forever. Or waiting for a microwave to heat your food. Kidding aside, meditation can help, as can just being out in nature without keeping your mind busy by stressing out with a screen in front of you.
I agree with Planks for sure. Calisthenics in general cause time to slow down to a crawl for me. 30 second timed-sets seem like an eternity.
Meditation goes very quickly for me if I am comfortable, but if I have any kind of sitting pain, it is an unbearable odyssey.