When you look into the eyes of a person you love, a second before you put your lips on theirs, time stops, it seems that everything is slowing down, you can dream and not wake up, and then when you remember that moment you will feel that it was ephemeral.
However, on the day we receive bad news like a person’s death, it seems that seconds become an eternity and that time slowly slips before our eyes.
- We can say that there is a chronological time and a subjective time.
- It all depends on what we perceive in terms of what each moment transmits to us.
- That subjective time goes back to the past.
- Present and future and we use it to understand the duration of the events and place them at any given time.
“Don’t sleep to rest, sleep to dream, because dreams are there to come true. ” – Walt Disney-
Our sensitivity to time also affects mental tasks such as thinking about problem solving, making decisions, or planning for the future. Psychologist John Wearden argues that the perception of time is linked to memory and the ability to visualize.
If you feel time passing slowly, you’ll see more things and remember more easily. In 1920, psychologist Hudson Hoagland observed that the perception of time is related to body temperature.
Hoagland’s wife was sick and had a high fever. He left for a while and his wife thought it had taken him a long time to return. Then Hoagland made her count for 60 seconds each day and realized that the more fever she had, the faster she counted, that is, when the temperature went up, her internal clock accelerated.
Neuroscientist David. M. Eagleman, an expert in the study of time-related phenomena by the human brain, performed several MRIs and concluded that when an experiment is new or surprising, it increases the activity of our neurons to record those moments.
“One day you will wake up and realize that you no longer have time to do what you have always dreamed of. It’s now, acting?” -Paulo Coelho-
Indeed, in the case of new and interesting experiences, we pay much more attention and keep all the details in our memory, when we remember a new experience, it seems to have lasted longer.
We can’t stop time, but we can make the most of every second, be aware of every moment and feel alive. Everything that happens around us, whether good or bad, is teaching us something, and if we stop for a moment we can learn and remember teaching.
Seconds, hours, days, weeks, months and years pass relentlessly and we can’t stop them, what we can do is help our brain slow down the passage of time and allow us to dream, here are some ways to do it :
Never stop learning. Having a child’s curiosity, exploring the world, asking questions, reading, will activate their brain, their memory, and feel time go slower.
Discover new places. Visiting new places, breaking your routine, traveling and seeing the world will open your mind, activate your brain to save all this information in memory and time will pass slower.
Dare to meet new people. We continue to live in the same circles of friends and create a routine, friends, family, acquaintances, companions are always the same, go out and talk to new people, make them known and dare to meet them as well.
Follow your heart and your intuition. Many times we think too much to make a decision without realizing that the more options we have, the more confused we may be. Follow your heart and intuition, learn to be spontaneous, dream and enjoy every moment.
You can dream all your life in a minute and make sure that this minute extends and extends to thousands of moments, it is possible to remember a moment that was in our memory and remember the smell, how our heart beat or who was with us at that time. Time.
Being with you or not is the measure of my time. – Jorge Luis Borges-