If you at least once in a lifetime traveled, It just had to experience the effect of slowing down time. While absolutely does not matter how much your trip lasted: a week or almost a month.
Imagine that you are returning from a two-week trip to Japan. Being in an airplane somewhere halfway home, you suddenly realize how rich in experience proved this time.
Burnt language recalls the first time you tried octopus, fried in batter. Sensations that accompany you during the flight time, very similar to the ones that you have experienced, riding on the super modern Japanese high-speed train.
There was a whole lot of things: there were excursions to the mountains, and travel on the subway, and trips to the famous night clubs... And how it all could have happened in just two weeks? It seems that has flown at least a month!
What happens over time
Of course, time does not stop it really is. The thing is it our perception and sensation. We think that it is stretched, it slowed down, and sometimes even stops flowing. While the wrist watch dutifully metered calendar days and hours, our
brain It perceives the elapsed time quite differently.It is believed that in addition to the real, common to all the time, which is called objective, each person there is also its own sense of time, the subjective. That is, it turns out that we have in mind has its own internal clock.
This proves one simple experimental technique, which is known in psychophysiology "paradigm unusual stimulus" or "the effect of the oddball".
Participants were seated in front of a computer monitor, and several times, but in a short period of time shown on the display picture of a shoe. Then on the screen once displayed a picture of a flower. In most cases, participants in the experiment are firmly convinced that the image of a flower was on the screen is much longer than the picture of shoes, although the duration of the show was absolutely identical.
The young American journalist Joshua Foer (Joshua Foer) in its book "Einstein walk on the moon. Science and art of memorization "writes that the monotony of killing time, and novelty allows him to open up.
Joshua FoerYou can do daily exercises, eat healthy food and live a long life, but feel it only as a short.
The well-known American philosopher and psychologist William James (William James) opened the curious paradox of time.
Time filled with interesting events, it seems short, when it occurs, but long, when we look around at last. Time is not filled with events, it seems a long while it is moving and short, when we think about it later.
When we are engaged in mountain climbing in the mountains on some trendy foreign resortThe time is stretched. When we are engaged in some routine workers affairs, week flies by as one day.
Why time is slowed down
In this lies the explanation of why the time a child reaches slower with age run faster and faster. Time flies due to monotony.
In childhood we experience new emotions and get a new experience each and every hour of every new day. But when we grow up, our lives begin to run on a certain routine, which is almost no place for something unknown. Days and weeks are resemble one anotherAs twins. That is why, and fly as fast and nothing special to remember.
Here come to the rescue of an adult traveling with their special magic. Bright emotions, a new experience, previously unknown sensations that we get to travel, remind us of the long-forgotten feelings from childhood when everything around was a novelty. Exploring unknown places, we once again become children briefly.
While traveling, we plunge headlong into the unknown. We visit new places, to move from one city to another, pay more attention to detail, we learn something interesting. Everything is so different from the daily routine, the brain sometimes does not manage to cope with the pourable from all sides of the new flows information.
The brain begins to distort the time to help us understand what is happening around. And then it seems to us that the days are getting longer. Life expands.