How to make a weekend lasted longer
A Life / / December 19, 2019
When we spend part of the weekend on useful and practical classes like cleaning, compiling menus and to-do list for the next week, rest days seem even shorter. However, if you spend the whole weekend without leaving the couch, the effect is the same. Neuroscientist David Iglmen told what to do.
Iglmen David (David Eagleman)
Neuroscientist, a professor at Stanford University, author of "The Brain. Your personal history. "
According to David Iglmena that weekend seemed longer, we need new experience. When we are faced with something new, we feel that more time has passed, because the brain retains more memories.
That is why the time begins to fly much faster, when we grow up. After all, a child for us, everything is new, we are continuously deposited in the memory of the new information.
David IglmenWhen we remember as a child last summer, it seems that it was a very long, because we remember how tried, learned and saw a lot. Well, when we get older, we have all the familiar and habitual.
The same rule also works for shorter time periods. So, if you want to stretch the most of every hour of output, will have to pre-plan anything.
For example, a short trip to make sure the output is longer than the output conducted at home. Well, the weekend at home will seem longer if you go for a walk or visit unfamiliar part of the city rather than stay home with a book. At the same time weekend spent reading something newWill seem longer than when you re-read a favorite book.
But there is one caveat: this rule works only when we look back. Yes, on Monday filled with new experiences weekend seem longer. But as long as you live them, you will feel that time flies too fast.
We do not pay attention to the time, while doing something interesting, and when we have nothing to distract, we feel that it runs slowly.
To better understand how it works, Iglmen proposes to introduce a long flight when we are in the air, it seems to us that we were flying for ages, not a few hours. But after we landed and left the airport, we already feel that everything went quickly. This is due to the fact that one flight is no different from the others - it just is not deposited in our memory.
It turns out that there is no universal advice that will make the weekend seem longer. Will have to choose just one thing: that the output is longer felt at the time seemed long stay or a memory.