<story><title>How the Brain Experiences Time</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/time-perception-9771/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the time-signal in LEC and thus the way you perceive time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Huh, After a year driving through West Africa I had come to this same conclusion, and am writing about it now for my next book.
I liken it to how video compression works - your brain doesn&amp;#x27;t bother storing every single event, only those it hasn&amp;#x27;t seen before.&lt;p&gt;Bored sitting at your desk at 2pm on Tuesday? Done that before, don&amp;#x27;t bother remembering.&lt;p&gt;Stuck in traffic? Done that before, don&amp;#x27;t both remembering&lt;p&gt;In those scenarios time tends to &amp;quot;fly&amp;quot; becuase you don&amp;#x27;t remember much.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;Watch a guy catch, skin and eat a money? WOAH! Never had that memory before. Remember.&lt;p&gt;Get Malaria? Remember&lt;p&gt;Chat to military with AK47s trying to bribe me in Nigeria? Remember.&lt;p&gt;Now time goes slower, and that one year in West Africa feels longer than the 4 years of sitting at a desk job that came before it.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Brain Experiences Time</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/time-perception-9771/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&amp;gt; Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the time-signal in LEC and thus the way you perceive time.&lt;p&gt;This correlates with anecdotal experience. A &amp;#x27;routine&amp;#x27; day goes by much faster as opposed to a day with new experiences (travel to previously unseen places for instance).</text></comment>