Which of these TWO ways do you perceive time? 

I just asked my husband and he said “I would ask for clarifications for the exact time.”

I laughed wayy to hard at that one Tiktok comment who said “anyone who thinks it’s 10am is a flat earther”

For anyone struggling to understand the other side: - 10am: 'moved forward' as in moved closer to you, like if a person was facing you, you would tell them to move forward = come closer -2pm: 'moved forward' as in moved towards the future, so away from you, like if a person was facing the same way as you, you would tell them to move forward = go away Hope this helped :)

This reminded me of the movie The Arrival. It's incredible how language could affect our perception of time.

Broke: “is the dress blue/black or gold/white?” Woke: “Is the meeting at 10am or 2pm?”

I said 2pm, but then I thought about the terms “pushed back” and “moved forward” and I could see it both ways. I’ve experienced these terms used both ways but never really thought about it. So now I’m just severely confused and don’t know what to think...

This was right on time for me. I had just called my doctor's office and told them that I needed my appointment to be moved back two weeks, and the nurse thought I meant that I wanted it moved forward two weeks. The more we talked about it, the more confused we both became, until I finally told her what date I wanted to reschedule it. I couldn't understand her confusion until I saw this video.

For example, everyone says “Christmas is coming” not “we’re getting to Christmas”.

Anyone who says “the noon meeting is moved forward two hours” should be fired for not being able to communicate effectively. Just say what time the meeting is like a decent person.

"is the meeting at 10am or 2pm?" Me: Idk I'll be late either way

Noon = 12 AM “Moved Forward” Forward = Well, Forwards. Forward = + +2 hours past noon. 2pm.

My initial thought was 2pm, then I thought about it. If it was "pushed back" instead of "moved forward" I would think 2pm... So now I'm just confused and don't know where I stand 😂

Similar topic, I have consistently had professors who say something like "the assignment is due by midnight June 27th" and the whole class will be confused as to whether that means June 26th 11:59:59PM or June 27th 11:59:59PM because people's perception of whether midnight is the latest point of the day or the earliest point of the day is different. This is generally solved by professors saying the assignment is instead due by 11:59PM of whatever day but the ambiguity of the topic always fascinated me

Personally, I thought. "Oh, it's 2:00 PM." But then I thought "Oh, crap. Moving forward would mean it's sooner, so it's 10:00 AM." So... I guess I'm an ego-moving person who has adapted to time-moving people. Or something like that.

Saying “the meeting has been moved 𝐹𝑂𝑅𝑊𝐴𝑅𝐷 two hours” made me think 2pm. But if “the meeting has been moved 𝑈𝑃 two hours” had been said, I would have thought 10am.

A late comment, but I just wanted to say that in Chinese language, we have a very clear cut difference with the words 前, meaning forward in this context, and 后, meaning backwards in this context as well. We say 前天, which means the day before yesterday, and 后天, as the day after tomorrow. So my family uses forward to say that time has became earlier and then use backwards to say that time has become later. (The English in this sentence isn't really correct but it took the least amount of work to type out and be understood rather than misunderstood.) When I saw this question, I thought immediately of 10am. However, when watching movies and scrubbing through the timeline (I think I used an animation term for movies, which is not the best fit) I say 前 for scrubbing to the end, basically moving forwards, and 后, for moving backwards- getting back o the start. Not many people may see this comment, but if you do, my main point is: we might have different perceptions of time based on the situation and unit of it.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

When people say “next Friday” and they mean this coming Friday. It drives me insane because “”next Friday” is not this coming Friday, it is the next coming Friday. But I can see the difference in understanding, it just annoys me.

This is so interesting! I've always thought people should just leave out "forward" or "backward" when they speak of changing a time. "The meeting has been moved to [time]" is much less confusing. I'd be interested to know which group of people tends to be late and which tends to be early for events.

“Time is an illusion and so is death” That one guy from avatar the last airbender

With the "meeting" example it's just down to your use of the word "forward", wether you read it as meaning continuing on from the current time. Or if you read it to mean coming sooner than the current time, as the word can be used for both. I see both, I first read it as meaning 2pm, but then after rereading it in a different context I read it as 10am. But both are possible.

When I hear that the meeting was "moved forward" two hours, I think that it's going to be at 2pm, but if it were "moved back" two hours, I would also think that it's at 2pm, so I think my time perspective might just be avoidant 😅

I absolutely love this discussion, not only for its linguistic syntax and the English language but also for its holographic reality in physics. I love the fact that you guys see it as a relationship oriented diffusion and occlusion of gravitational time space assessments in the now! I do believe I initially answer the question of getting to the end of the year with a friend of mine before I saw this. She responded "yeah it's coming fast,"👌 to which I had to counter "well I can't wait till I get to that point in 2020 it'll finally be over.” it occurred to me we might be having a Virginia wolf-ish conversation, but I did think about the holographic universe and 0 point time in relationship this year. And our perception of how we physically communicate with these concepts, occurred to me later on. So I really appreciate you following up with this construct that had been rattling around in the back of my mind for weeks.

Haven't seen your videos in years. RU-vid just stopped suggesting you and a whole bunch of channels I watched regularly. I have to click the bell on so many channels my ears are ringing.

this is so shocking to me i have ego moving perspective and I can’t imagine not seeing time this way WOW

"Do you now think that it's at 2pm or at 10am?" I think I'm definitely gonna miss that meeting....

lmao I'm the third one: confused because I've never heard the phrase "moves forward by xxx hrs" only earlier or later ;-;

I stumbled onto your sight tonight and I'd like to say that I really, really get a kick outta the POV'S you share! Thanks for the effort into the quality! You both have charisma, I love it!

I love Greg's trying-to-process face. He's concentrating so hard.

There’s no right or wrong answer.... until you’ve missed the meeting entirely 🙃😂

It's interesting that with the "holidays coming to you" or "getting to the holidays" my brain completely switches camps

Always been a fan of you guys but I really like this particular video format of the 2 of you having a discussion while providing information. Keep it up!

I really couldn’t understand the illustration, so for anyone else confused: within the phrase “the meeting has been moved forward” The difference is forward meaning “closer to now” vs meaning “further in the day”

I have consistently heard “moved forward” used to mean moved to an earlier time (forward in your day), and “pushed back” to mean pushed to a later time in the day.

I love how you explain things.

I love this! i like that there’s a discussion and opinion aspect to this video. also. it’s 100% 2pm thank you very much.

"There are actually two ways in which we English speaking humans percieve time" People who speak other languages: ''i dont have such weaknesses''

When I hear the noon meeting was moved forward by 2 hours, I think 2pm. But if someone says the noon meeting was moved up by 2 hours, I think 10am.

LOL i love Greg and mitch and their way of teaching science.. Great job!!!

Oh, wow! I actually love the past in front and future in the back way of thinking. I mean, you can see your past because it already happened. It is something concrete in your mind, so to speak. The future is something you cannot see, like what would happen with something that is in your back. You haven't lived it yet, you don't know what it looks like. It is a very fascinating way of thinking. Thank you for this!

What’s shocking to me was that when you very first said the question, my immediate thought was “oh it at 2pm” but when I stopped and thought about it for a second I reversed my perspective within just a few seconds and now confidently feel that it’s at 10 am. Very odd.

2015: White & Gold Dress vs. Black & Blue Dress 2016: Shiny Legs vs. White Paint on Legs 2018: Yanny vs. Laurel 2020: 10AM vs 2PM The world is always trying to divide us even though we're already doing it ourselves.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -- Ford Prefect

this is so interesting!!! I'd never thought about this before! I'd never even thought to think about this! mind = blown (I only know English) I think of days and holidays and times as set things. When event times change, they move either closer or further from Sunday/Monday Day/Night January/December, not me personally. And because the things are set in stone in their respective blocks and zones, I move through them. It's really interesting to now know that other people imagine things as being set up around them and coming closer. Therefore moving "forward" is relative to them, ie it's getting closer. I saw another comment on "what if it said the meeting had been moved back two hours?" and I would then assume it was at 10. Others said it then must be at 2, because it was moved further away from them. Thank you AsapScience! This is so astronomically amazing and eye opening.

Me: "Wednesday's noon meeting has been moved forward by 2 hours. What time is the meeting now?" My Dad: "4 pm" Me: -_-

My English textbook defined “move forward” as “move to an earlier time.” I guess the writers had time-moving perspectives. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I instinctually thought 2pm but after you pointed it out I realized that if the meeting were moved forward it would be 10:00. If the meeting were pushed back, then it would be 2:00. I have the most boring type of synesthesia but it's actually relevant for this. I blend time and space perception, which is what I though everyone did until I heard about time-space synesthesia and realized that not everyone does that. For me, time is like a helix/coil that I'm standing on, with the future being up, forward, and to the right, and the past is down, forward, and to the left. When I'm thinking of time relative to myself, I see it based on wherever I am on the coil. When I'm thinking of time relative to itself (like thinking of a date on the year, but not how far away it is from me), I'm standing in the spring, around April, probably because that's when my birthday is. So from that standpoint, I'm in the spring, summer is to my right, winter is to my left, and autumn is below and across from me. But right now it's November, so winter is to my right, summer is to my left, and spring is up and across from me. Seasons also have colors but I think that's just kind of cultural, like spring is green, winter is ice blue, fall is dark orange and summer is yellow. But I think that's just the colors most people associate wih the seasons. Apparently my mom thinks of time as an imaginary calendar, where if you say "April", she imagines the month of April on a calendar.

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I personally think its White & Gold

Yanny is having a meeting at 10am, and she's wearing white-gold dress.

This just blew my mind 😂 I had to pause a few times and mentally process this video! Me and my wife about to have a good convo today 😂

both actually make sense to me, sometimes one makes more sense but i rethink it and the other also makes sense

I chose 2pm, yet I see the holidays as coming towards us.

I'm not a native English speaker, so it took me quite a while to understand the problem here. In my language, when you talk about moving an event, the word you use to describe it specifies whether the event will occur later or earlier. That doesn't leave much space for subjectivity, so when you talked about "forward" I automatically thought "forward is +, so +2 hours". Because time is less subjective in my language, I thought about "forward" as either + or - time, instead of as moving in correlation to something else (which is a more subjective type of progression). I hope that makes sense🤔 Edit: now that I think about it, you'll actually need to give *more* information about the situation in Hebrew to make time subjective, which is pretty weird. Giving more info will let you use more subjective words that give the same perspective as "forward".

I wasn't sure what I thought until I reframed the questiont and thought of it as moving "up" as opposed to "forward. " When it's put that way I definitely think time is flowing towards/through me.

This is fascinating! It makes sense that it is an English language issue though. Spanish is my native language and it’s definitely more of a time centered language.

Mr incredible: WEDNESDAY IS WEDNESDAY!!!

Plot twist: whoever set that meeting didn't want to come

as SOON as you mentioned seeing it as something you're dreading, I immediately was able to see the 10 AM crowd's perspective. This video is blowing my mind and I still have 2 minutes left to watch 😲

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Shout out to all the people asking "what time was the meeting?"

I see how “move Forward” can be perceived as the meeting moving ahead in time Or moving earlier in the day. I think of “forward in time” and any time after the one you’re speaking about.

When I think about an event I am dreading, I still feel like I'm in the ego-perception group, but it feels more like a rollercoaster where you're moving towards the scary part but you can't stop lol

So I say 2pm, but I also think that time is moving around us as in the holidays are coming up. We can't change how fast a year is, they just gradually feel shorter as we live through more and more of them.

When I think about this question in English I think it’s 10am, when I think about this question in Chinese it’s 2pm ...

imagine people showing up at the meeting at 10am. the people who thought the meeting was at 2pm will be sooooooooooooooooooo confused

I am a 10 a.m. and I do feel static at times. I’m up early hours in advance just to be somewhere early meaning on time. Never excited to get to a holiday, they come eventually. I flow through my day and I pre think events as alternate timelines to control the narrative. I’m also a Gemini so I breeze through as an air sign, slow, fast, calm, and rough.

The meeting previously booked at 12:00 have been changed to be 2 hours later, at 14:00.

If it was phrased as “the meeting has moved UP two hours”, I would think it was earlier. But saying it “moved FORWARD”, I think of it as moved forward in time and is therefore later.

if it was “brought forward” 2 hours, i’d say 10am, and “pushed back” 2 hours, i’d say 2pm

This reminded me of the 2018 TED talk by Lera Boroditsky. For the Kuuk Thaayorre, time is locked on the landscape. It's a dramatically different way of thinking about time.

Very interesting! Ipaused the video at the beginning to think about this question. At first I thought it meant the meeting was no 10:00am since to push back a meeting usually means it's later, but then I thought it must actually mean that it will take place 2 hours forward in time. I spent 5 minutes trying to reconcile the two but realized I couldn't. More context was needed. Then I watched the rest of the video and realized why.

'Moved forward' could either mean that the event has been moved forwards in time (the way I interpreted it) or that it’s been moved forwards to the front of the que before others. It's nothing to do with your entire perception of time, it's just vaguely worded.

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius

This was such an interesting video! I'm part of the "10AM" crew and my dad is "2PM." Fascinating!

My repsonse is the 2pm, I can understand the 10am perspective too after watching this video. Thank you

Personally, I’m team 2pm, but if the senario were to be stated as “moved up 2 hours” it would definitely be at 10am.

The meeting’s at 10am for me. To me moving something “forward” means it’s happening sooner, it’s been brought closer to me. For me to think that the meeting is at 2pm, it would have been “delayed” two hours. I’m also one of the people that thinks the holidays are “coming”.

Great video! I might use this in my next video: About time, and how Earthlings perceive it.

I always get confused when something is pushed back or moved forward. So when they originally posed the question, I said 2pm. However, I'm used to people saying a meeting is pushed back (delayed) and thinking that it's earlier. I trained myself to understand something being "pushed back"means the time is later despite my instincts saying otherwise. However, when asked about the holidays, I perceive them as coming. The notion of me "getting to the holidays"feels incredibly foreign to me. I think it's interesting how split I am as just one human being, and how the context changed my perception of time. Great video!

I thought “If the meeting gets pushed back 2 hours, then it would be 2PM.”....so then if it’s moved forward, then it would be 10AM.

I perceive Time in the only correct way: Spirographs.

My first thought was that the meeting was a 2pm, but usually when I think of something being "ahead" of schedule, it means it is early, so I don't know why I didn't process the word "forward" the same way. I do think of the future as the forward direction and the past as backward... idk 1: "The meeting was moved forward from 10am to 2pm." 2: "The meeting was pushed back from 10am to 2pm." The more I look at these sentences the more confused I get. Sentence 1 makes sense because going forward is going into the future. Sentence 2 also makes sense because it's like the meeting was pushed back on my to-do list, so I don't have to think about it until later.

I think it depends how often you've been in business settings, and how long you thought about the question. I instinctively thought 2PM because of the word "forward". Thought of a clock, 12 being the top, forward being the right hand direction. But I was thinking to quickly, when I thought about why it might be 10, I realised my error. In a business setting, schedules are prioritised and full of things that need to be done in a particular order. When we talk about "moving" things forward or backwards, think about a set of cards with tasks to be completed in order front to back. If you are asked to move things "forward in your agenda", you take the card in question (meeting) and bring it forward in priority (front). So it takes place earlier as it is more important "forward" by two hours. If you were asked to move something "back" it would take place later on because it's further back in the agenda. I don't really think that how you answer this question says anything about us or how we perceive time, as much as it does about how we approach language without totally clear instructions. We can't "see" time, therefore we can't "see ourselves" moving through time in different ways, in my opinion. Time itself is a constant, from our human perspective at least. How much time we feel has elapsed since certain events, and how long we feel we have to wait for things to happen is something that we can "feel" different about in our brains though. Based on our estimates of how long increments of measured time take, in the case of when our shift ends for example. How many memories were formed during and after certain events, how long months and years feel to us, and how old we are will make us feel different about how long ago things were. We may feel like the first half of our shift at work flew by, but the second half is taking forever (despite them being the identical length of time on the clock). Or we may feel like the birth of a family member feels like only a couple of years ago, despite them being a teenager now. Years feel like a smaller amount of time the older we get as fractionally they become a smaller percentage of your life year after year.

im on the ego moving perspective, but it may be because the word for "forward" in my mother language spanish is "adelantar/avanzar" which all have to do with going ahead, further. and we think of the future as something that is in front of us. so I've always associated "forward" with the future.

There’s a fascinating study on this and related questions like this called “The Experiential Basis of Meaning”. Anyone interested in fictive motion, or even skeptical that it may just be a linguistic problem should give it a read!

Hello, im from Brazil and our language(Brazilian portuguese) has a word for every action or situation. We do not have your time perspective problem because our language has especific word for time placement. So if the meeting were moved forward we have a word for that, and if it has been moved backwards we would also have a word to clarify that. Besides that, our hour system is 24h format, not 12 as yours. So 2PM is actually 14hours for us.

I have a time moving perception, and after watching this video I can see the logic behind both perspectives. Thanks Asap Science! 👍 #10 am gang

My immediate response was, “I’d ask for clarification about the time because this isn’t clear.”

I would interpret "moved forward 2 hours" and "moved back 2 hours" to both mean the meeting is at 2pm. If the meeting is at 10am, I would say it's moved up 2 hours

When I finished watching this video and checked the clock in my living room the hands were at 10 and 2. 10:10am.

That’s why I describe time in regards to left or right. English speakers intuitively associate left with past and right with future. The meeting got moved to right or left.

Here’s my problem: when I hear “wednesdays noon meeting has been pushed forward two hours”, I think 2 pm. But when I hear “wednesdays meeting has been pushed BACK two hours” I also think it’s at 2 pm. I think the reason why I think this way, is because both ways of phrasing this kind of thing are used, but in almost every context most meetings are delayed rather than expedited. Since both perspectives are relative neither is correct, so rather than have to rely on context cues, people should use the words after/before because then it fixes the perspective to be in terms of the event (ie ego moving perspective). For example, no one will confuse the phrase “wednesdays noon meeting is taking place 2 hours after its previously scheduled time”.

Take the antithesis. Does anyone think that a meeting “moved back” makes the meeting at 10am?

This was a little confusing at first but now I think that it's amazing 😂😂😂

I believe time perception is also based on context and the words used. The meeting moved forward would be at 2pm in my interpretation, but if you told me we moved the meeting up I would interpret it as sooner, like you’ve moved it to a higher priority of listed things to be done.

2pm. For me, it just seems logical to assume that by saying the meeting was “moved forward”, the implication is that the meeting was moved toward the future as we (English speakers) see time moving in one direction: from past to future. Therefore, saying the meeting was moved forward means that the meeting was moved forward in time. If the saying was rather “the meeting was moved forward towards you”, the implied time would objectively be 10am.

The ambivalence lies in the term "forward" This is what throws people off

I think this also has to do with how time is read on a traditional clock. The hands would move forward or ahead by 2 hours, making it 10am.

This is so mind boggling 😱🙏🏾❤️😬👍🏾