Right, I noticed that too. Most people in their 50's and older didn't have much of a difference in our routine anyway. We already didn't go to night clubs, hang out with our friends much or attend special events much. So, going to the grocery store was already the highlight of our day before the pandemic happened! 😂
I have had some absolutely awful experiences in the last 4 years so no 😂 I don’t think they’ve gone by quickly. The last 4 months where things rarely changed? Yeah, I feel like it was January 3 weeks ago.
except for the rare people who began their life during that time. I feel exactly the same as I did at 27, but in that time my ex best friend (who abandoned me at the start of the pandemic for her fiance, financially setting me back years as she took the fridge, freezer, washer, dryer, pantry, lounge set and more when she left the flat and I was so sick I couldn't do anything) who was the same age as me ( well 6 months younger actually), got married, had two kids moved to a different country and aged 15 years (she seriously looks 45 now). It's so bizarre.
Kinda the same for me. I was 17 back then and now I am an adult in my early twenties. I'm slowly accepting the idea of being considered an adult, but sometimes I feel a part of me resist it lol.
This is interesting in how it pertains to people with severe illness. I was stuck in the dark from migraines for about five years. I was bedbound for an additional five years. I only left my house for appointments, when I could make them. I didn’t socialize (no friends, no energy). It feels like those years were just a bad dream now.
Yup same, after university I fell into severe depression coupled with health problems… I lost atleast 7 years of my life and I can’t process how I’m as old as I am now because I didn’t live those years at all.. essentially lost my 20s to my very own lockdown
@@mm1234bbI feel that so intensely. I’m so sorry. It’s hard! People say it’s the best decade of your life and you’re finding yourself and having adventures, but… not everyone is. My adventures were in books. My achievements were in video games. My great loves were the newest album of a band I loved. The drama was whatever was going on between feuding RU-vidrs. *I* didn’t have any of that though. I wasn’t living a *real* life. But because it was invisible people assumed I was okay. They assumed I had a full life. They just kept going with theirs. I was severely ill from when I was 12 to when I was 31. That’s not a long haul for the faint of heart. I still have trouble figuring out who I am against who I should be or who I was expected to be. But it did eventually get better, and I found people to share it with. I wish it would be the same for every person going through this because it does well and truly suck.
This is why a lot of cultures have many holidays and celebrations throughout the year, many of which are tied to seasons. It helps us process and keep track of time, among other things. Make up reasons to make a day or even a moment special if you live a monotonous life. It doesn't have to be expensive or wild, just different from what you normally do.
@@439801RSthat's a pretty dim view to take of the opportunity to take part in the reiteration of the creation of the universe. That's the essence of many of these ceremonies.
Our generation. Is smartest. The brightest of us. Still lack the basic spirtuality that our great grand parent’s had. we reject it. It’s a part of us whether we let it or not.
Yep, it feels the same way to this 69 year old, too. Before Covid I felt like a “young” senior. Covid, due to isolation, less exercise, aged me 10+ years. I’m trying now, through exercise, to get at least a couple of years back. 😢
Reseach occupational therapy, lots great information in that degree. Finding meaningful interests and hobbies is a large part of it I will weed garden in the morning, for some reason it kick starts my day. Easy task and very relaxing. This helps with a phenomenon known as volition. It's what motivates a person to preform tasks.
Same, but therapy has worked. Cognitive behavioral therapy works. But be careful when you choose a therapist because the first one I chose was a crap. It took me 2 years, it was hard, but it's worth it. I was blessed to find RU-vid videos online to help me know exactly what's going on and what to do. I know you can do it too, you deserve to live with ease and reassurance. You'll eventually know how to deal with whatever situation you're in.
Chronic trauma also impairs this kind of encoding along with causing every day to feel too similarly extreme (from the constant elevated stress) for normal extremes to stand out as much. Having been chronically homeless for a long time, it's like much of my 20s just evaporated even despite many notable changes and novel experiences throughout them, because it feels perceptually like a blur of just struggle and survival.
This is me. I had a life changing event in 2016 then again in 2018 that lasted through 2021. Which caused me to severely be affected via physical and mental throughout 2022. 2023 I tried getting better and focusing on my health. I feel like I'm only starting to come out of it and realized 4 years have passed. I can't believe how much time I've lost
@@ihaven0thingnotevenaname881 this was me. I got a Panera sip club membership on a cheap promo discount. The one by my house is pretty nice with a fireplace. Tried to go every day. It did help get me out of the house. I've since cancelled the membership and plan to start working out instead
Same. Being a recluse before the pandemic due to trauma, just starting to get my life back by 2020, then the pandemic. It’s really messed with time perception
This reminds me of when a very sweet and caring hospice nurse explained to me how, at the end of life, our brain replays a video of our whole life. It sort of does a "life review" right as we are passing on. I can't quite explain it as well as she explained it to me, but it was a very interesting lesson she taught me as my 96 year old grandma was in her final hours of life. It definitely made me understand death more ❤
Whilst this is a lovely thought and sentiment, it’s unlikely to be true. As someone who worked in a hospice, I certainly never saw any evidence of this myself, and nor do I know how you would even go about proving it.
I used to remember events in Before [Daughter] vs After [Daughter]. Now I’ve added Before Mom Died vs After Mom Died. Good to know I’m not alone in weird time measurements.
If we remember when we were kids an hr seemed like a day a day like a week & we couldn't wait till we reached 16 18 etc etc. If you think that time is going by fast now just wait another 30 yrs lol ❤
I see it now with my daughter. I moved 4 years ago, she was barely 2 years old and we move again now. To me wife and me, it doesn't feel like a super long time. Heck I even still have unpacked boxes from the first move we never got to. But seeing all the changes my daughter went through just puts into perspective all the things that happened in this short time.
@@Grimburor it could be that kids are developing rapidly that slows down as you age. Imagine if you continued to develop as rapidly as a kid did. You'd be dead at 40
Literally, just today I was telling my sister I couldn’t believe it has been almost 6 years since we lived in Spain, and how it still feels like we were there yesterday. Shortly after we came back from Spain, the pandemic hit. Ever since, time seems to skip. It’s such a trippy feeling.
You make being a doctor sound like the most interesting profession on earth. An infinite variety of subjects to learn about the human form. Like thank you for sharing all of this fr
A great example of this is distance running. Watching others racing it seems like it goes by quickly but when you do it feels like it takes forever with the amount of pain that you’re in.
Fully agree with that post at the start. All I did was work work work and work. Until I catched the f*ckin virus in summer of 2022 and since then I am too sick to even manage my household. So I either sit on my couch or I am busy seeing doctor after doctor...with no result. I have such trouble pinpointing an event to a specific year🙈
I can highly recommend watching the videos on the Bateman Horn Clinic channel. They treat ME/CFS, Long Covid, and Fibromyalgia. I have almost fully recovered from ME/CFS from a treatment plan that I devised myself, and then subsequently found that it's the same plan that the doctors at this clinic prescribe. You can recover, but it takes time and a lot of patience as well as rest. I wish you all the best!
If you've been that ill for that long, there is something else going on. A flu virus doesn't have that extreme of an effect without some other major contributing factor.
I have experienced this recently. When I started a new job, for me, it's still recently, but in the blink of an eye, it was one and a half months. It felt like two weeks
See I get the opposite effect where after I've been at a job about a month or two I feel like I've been there for a couple of years. I guess it's cuz I learn stuff quickly because I even have people that don't know me ask me how long I've worked places and think I've worked there far longer than I have. Eh it's probably why I don't last at jobs very long because after working there for about a year or two I get bored and I want to move on to a different job haha. I don't have a problem keeping jobs, jobs have a problem keeping me because I honestly get bored and want to experience something else. Maybe that's why time doesn't feel weird for me because I'm constantly doing different things.
I've known this for a while. Had 5 years go by 22-27 way too fast and the things I remembered most were new experiences so I started making a bucket list every year of 20 things where almost everything was an emphasis on trying new things. Been doing it for 10+ years until Covid. Time definitely blipped by for 2 of those years. Had new experiences all right, but not many I want to remember. Feel like I missed out on the lives of my family and friends 😢 Things aren't the same.
I'm 35 and have been writing a video game for a year from scratch with no experience, it has been so immersive I feel like the last year was 10 years when I think about how much I've learned
Happened to me during pandemic when I was living in my grandma's home for months (I don't remember how many months) and then stuck in my own home doing the same thing everyday. Now it feels that those two years in my life never existed as they shrinked to 2-3 days. Even my minds takes it a moment to process that I am actually 2 years older than what it calculated.
I've always felt this. I have tons of specific memories of elementary school, tracker and specific moments when I learned some fact. We moved once and sometimes twice a year during that time, so I can associate the things together
Horray. I have chronic fatigue and cant leave the house. Lol. Love all these wonderful memories I am making. Please go out and live your lives. Do that thing you have been wanting to do. Go out with your friend, learn an instrument, take a course at your local college. I always thought that after highschool, I'd be going on adventures. I didn't really do a lot in highschool because I didn't find "my people" there. That was ok, I figured I'd do it all when I got a car. I was always a little but tired sooner than my peers, too. Then, my senior year was cut short. 2020. Lost my years 17-20 to covid. Finally was coming out of it, got a job, hated it. Send my fatigue into overdrive and gee... How am I supposed to finish, when I can't even begin? I am 21 and wake up every day wishing I could at least study my guitar, but I can't even do that anymore. Dont waste time, you never know when it will be stolen from you.
depression effects executive function which also effects your perception of time. i spent over a decade in depression a i barely have memories from then
@@LilFeralGangrelSame for me! Still have depression but I’m functioning now… lost atleast 7 years to it and barely left the house, had nowhere to go… no job no money no friends… that whole period is one big blur
Also, the reason time seems to tick by faster the older you get is because as a kid, one year is a large percentage of your life… one year might be 1/8th of your whole existence, but by the time you’re mid aged, one year is only 1/40th - 1/50th of your life makes much less of an impact. Everything is new and interesting as a kid, but by the time you’ve grown novel things like new experiences become more and more rare. So the years seem to accelerate and start to whiz by the older you get. The days feel eternally long and slow, but the years seem way too short!
Its literally like how a camera catches video. longer spaced out pictures gives you a faster, "jumpier" image. Not a lot of detail is picked up and stuff is missing from moment to moment because you just didnt capture it. If the camera takes more pictures per moment and then plays back that video it made, the video is longer and more detailed from moment to moment. Youre a camera
This explains SOOOO MUCH. I'm not crazy afterall living a life full one monochromatic day after another, day after another, day after another into years, decades .... 😢
Novel experineces while working a steady job so i can afford to keep my credit score from dipping but not making enough to have hobbies or even retire is kinda hard bro 😅 but that is a great explanation of the time warp phenomenon.
This is cool to know as me and my other half always use a story or specific event that happened to help us remember things we've done or have to do on a daily. It even works to know if we haven't done it on that day.
I feel like a million eternities with Dr Karan would be like a few seconds in real life. Nobody can ever get enough of Dr Karan as he fills every second with magnificent experience ❤❤❤❤❤
Totally with you here except for the fall experiment. I feel like that has more to do with the time-slowing effect of an adrenaline rush, which allows us more subjective time to react when in danger and prepare for a fight-or-flight response.
Another way I was told to think about this is that, when you are 1 year old, another year passing would encompass 50% of your whole life. When you are 20 years old, one more year is just a 20th of your whole life, making it minuscule compared to how long you’ve actually been alive for.
I had a pretty terrible 2019 and then the following few years trying to juggle depression and universtiy and failing at both its been horrible. I feel like the past few years just vanished, and it makes me feel pretty embarrassed at how little ive done over such a long period of time.
I heard that time seems to go by fast when were younger and the memory of our years in our prime is shorter than the memory of our last years alive,so we don't remember much from the time when we were younger but remember more as we age in the final life stage,during the last years of our lives.
This is how i am. I can only go to doctors appointments so if i dont have a lot of appointments i really lose track of time. Something that happened last week really happened a month ago and whatnot. I hate it.
It's just a jump to the left .... and then a step to the Right. With your hands on your hips, you pull your knees in tight. Let's do the Time Warp again! 🕺
I've had this problem ever since I was a kid, but mine is due to dissociation. On top of feeling like everything is always the same, I can't remember chunks of my life at all.
I think this is an extrovert's problem. As an introvert, I thrived during the pandemic. I changed my career and made stronger connections with my loved ones while staying at home. These past 4 years have helped me grow as a person. I just can't relate even though I'm a Milennial.
I don't perceive any kind of time warp, the last 5 years have been especialy plenty of special moments, bad or good. Found a kind of job that I like, found my partner, have adopted one cat, 2 dogs, been pregnant, took my driver's license, my grandma died, started my business, I've been in a few trips outside my country, a few inside my country, gave birth, caring for my baby was another roller coaster, started another college degree, haven't finished yet and mich more. Sometimes I feel like I haven't done anything and I have to remind myself of all the stuff I did or happened to me to realise that time is passing slower than I think. I'm already 31, but I feel like it should become less eventfull at some point. When I look back at my high school years and my childhood I feel like time passed too fast and I honestly didn't do much all those years.
it feels like i haven't run in weeks yet it's been days probably..time is a concept ppl invented thus it often doesn't agree with our own perception. it's way too relative💖🌻
Man time and how we perceive it is absolutely insane. I fall asleep and 8 hours have gone like an instant. Then at work it feels like forever. So unreal.
The passage of time is defined by changes in states. In physics, it’s the increase in entropy. Without noticeable change, there is effectively no time. For example, watch a two hour movie. Went by fast enough. Now stare at a wall for two hours. That’ll feel like an eternity.
Yeah last few years were a flash the only thing i can remember about them was the pandemic, almost getting mugged at knifepoint and a depressive breakdown, but honestly it’s been feeling way better this year. Progression with my life, meeting old friends, actually doing shit. Feels marvelous honestly, just doing normal shit makes me happy. I’m also way more open to trying out new things because of how boring these few years were.
This also explains the dullness of depression very well-more is required to break your mind out of that routine of indifference enough to form a long-lasting memory.
The perception of time also speeds up as you experience more time. That's why time seems to pass more quickly the older we get. Remember summers as a child? Those couple of months seemed an eternity. After you've experienced a few dozen summers, they pass in the blink of an eye.
Intriguing really that's how most people process time. The way time is processed for us is not based upon experiences OR experiences shrink time instead of dilation. Hence the pandemic didn't feel illusory but felt as it were a decade-long event.
This memory time dilation also works in the opposite way, I had very difficult and traumatic teenage years and now I’m in a better place i realised actually have a good 7-8 year gap in my memory even though lots of significant things happened during that time.
I've felt that way ever since 9/27/1997, doubly so since 9/11/2001, triply so since 10/31/2019. When I woke from a coma with amnesia on the last date I wondered if I was back to before the first date and if everything afterwards had been a bad dream.
I don't time well, so I'd relate my experiences according to grades. Worked well until my brain wipes those memories and I don't remember anything from a certain point on, just some faded receipts. It happens about every five to eight years. They were there last week, then recall gets corrupted.
The only way I can remember when something happened is to compare it to a huge event in my life and try to figure out if it happened before or after. So I'll say it was pre covid but after I moved, or after I graduated but before I worked at such an such. Never ask me an actual year unless it's one of those huge events.
I definitely don't feel this, but I suppose I had way too much trauma and big events to get through. It's only since covid has become a thing of the oast that my life has started to settle again.
This idea that time seems to slowdown in retrospect with significant events because we have saved more information ignores the fact that some people remember the thoughts at the time. I myself remember that when I experienced an accident caused by a careless motorist, as I was flying through the air, and at that moment I thought wow time really does slow down. I don't believe this would have been possible if it was just and only in retrospect from the encoding of more information, as I felt this apparent time dilation whilst it was happening.
This explains why I have little to no memories of my childhood up until my last years of High school. I could never tell how old I was in the few memories I did have. 😂
I’m 30, I suppose I’m a millennial. And I don’t know what this man on the first video is talking about. In 2020 life has made a wrong turn. 2 years of pandemic and then we have a full-blown war started. It feels like 2020 was 10 fugging years ago for me personally.
I do think part of it is all the chaos that's happened since 2016. It's been nonstop insanity, and, at some point along the way, there was a pandemic and I entered my 30s. Like wtf?
Temporal awareness, temporal consciousness.. is a poorly recognised area. It's hard to get at, both conceptual and theory wise, and behavioural. Temporal consciousness, awareness of time ...is a domain of actual significance. There's so much more to this. Dr. Karen is entirely correct.. make novel experience, seek this out, the more varied the better. However, listen to things you tend to ignore. Imagine a universe of things you ignore.. a universe of opportunity.
Unfortunately I started the grind mundanity to try afford housing at like, 17, after a grind to delete my hobbies to get through school with undiagnosed ADHD. So sadly, I'm kind of formatively still a teenager in ways
I started college right after covid started. 2021. Shit was still up in the air. It still feels like 2020 to me. College is a pretty big event, yet it still feels like the last 4 years never happened. How am I about to graduate? I just got here.
Kids help slow it down. Deaths and moving slow it down. Drug use made several years go fast. Getting clean slowed it up. Trauma slowed it down. Day to day is fast. 😢
That's a touching interpretation of some science, but I feel like that falling experiment is more easily explained by the time dilating effects of adrenaline. Surely I'm not the only one who has had a sudden surprising or scary event happen and felt everything take into slow motion when the adrenaline kicked in. I have had a number of events occur while driving including animals and cars emerging unexpectedly in front of me where I've had to take emergency action to avoid a collision. I remember a surprising amount of time elapsing between the moment that I realized that something was amiss and the moment that I finally realized that I was going to be safe. I sometimes remember having time to consider different responses and weighing my estimations of the chances each would work and selecting the most promising strategy. One time when all I could do is apply the brakes, I didn't think that I had enough breaking power to actually stop entirely and I fully expect it to crash into the other car. I remember having time to consider the possibility that I was going to crash and to think if there's anything that I could do to protect myself on impact. They're probably wasn't, aside from making sure that my hands were out of the way of the airbag and then I was sitting all the way back in my seat. I don't think this is about sorting long-term memories based on novelty. This is about an experience in the moment. This is about how you remember it immediately after. Yes, the fact that you remember events like this instead of uneventful trips could certainly be attributed to novelty getting preference in our memories, but I feel like the falling experiment was a red herring for this video.
