A microwave minute is 10 normal minutes.

If you really want to experience time, stare at an analog clock without a seconds hand, for 5 excruciating minutes.

The perception of time can feel different from person to person and emotional state to emotional state.

Absolutely, and there’s actually been a substantial amount of research on the subject as well. The way we perceive time is a product of our emotional state, and the environment.

As a football ⚽ fan, I can confirm that time moves excruciatingly slowly when defending a 1 goal lead, and absurdly quickly when a goal behind.

When you’re stressed out or in a panic situation your brain will start to lay down more than one memory track at a time, this will cause time to feel slower when you think back on it. And because the “present” is constantly moving moment in time thinking back only 10 seconds can feel like 30 seconds, making time feel like it’s crawling along. If you spend 8 hours at work stressed out, at the end of the day it can feel like you’ve spent 16-20 hours there.

Sure, yeah.

20:30 December 24 as a kid through 05:30-ish? Until I actually fell asleep anyway it felt eternal. Like the second hand on the clock fucking with you by sticking but still ticking. Which that shit did back then but always sprung back to barely-any-time-passed.

I had a long career with plenty of digg/reddit time that made a nine hour day feel like a pleasant nine, but still nine. Too bad they also made the rest of the 15 feel like shit.

I answered tier one tech calls from collection agents. Eight hours was eternal. Worse than Christmas, soul crushing, can’t make a joke about it. Left.

Now I have a job that I love that is 12 to 15 if OT. Breezes by.

Human nature I think.

If you meant on a larger timescale then - yes also, but nobody needs dreadful anecdotes.

Life is taking fucking forever. Decades of rent payments and wage slaving await. Ultragigadepresso