It is said that the only living thing that can perceive the passage of time is a human being. But then recently ran an article about dogs, which said that the despair of the dog, when the host, increases in the first 30 minutes, and then remains at the same level. It was assumed that dogs could feel the flow of time for up to 30 minutes and that what is above is simply "very long". But, as we know, a human being is a more complicated creature.
Why is it important to feel the time? It is believed that this is a very useful survival tool through which we can consciously rank and organize our experiences. If reflexes are not particularly difficult, if A happens, then B happens, then more complex mental structures are more difficult. Have you told your stairwell neighbor everything you think about her and she called you bad words, or do you think she will call you bad names if you tell her the cruel truth in her face? Here, if you confuse it with "it was" or "it will be", the neighbor can go into attack with heavy kitchen utensils in front of her.
Perception of time is subjective and depends on the feeling of reality of each individual person. If reality is threatening, time slows down in a subjective understanding. During this time it is possible to make a breakthrough from danger and save oneself. But it does not always play into the hands, especially if a person suffers from a phobia. Hammon conducted an experiment with people suffering from arachnophobia. It turned out that in the presence of a spider their subjective time flows slower than when they are in a calm state.
In addition, time slows down if a person is bored or depressed.
With age, people feel differently about the course of time. During school years, the third quarter and summer holidays seemed to be endlessly long. For adults, it is only "some three months".
In many ways, it plays a role in the amount of novelty that a person gets in a certain period of time. If you see a lot of new and bright things, the brain needs more resources to process information, and it stretches our subjective time. When in adulthood we use tired and intrusive strategies, the brain "shrinks" the time, because there is nothing to think about for a long time.
Time for a person is divided into 3 main periods: past, present and future. Each part of this time continuum can either shrink or stretch depending on a person's current need.
But only the "present" is relevant and available. Here we can manipulate and experience emotions towards them. In order to start to work or somehow use the resources of other timeframes, consciousness drags pictures or other images into the "present" frame. Because of this drag and drop and change of accents, the perception of certain events changes.
And there are several effects associated with this:
- Fooled expectations and the weekend paradox. People in this case significantly stretch and paint the future, often severely cutting back the present. And when the expected moment comes, it turns out that it does not coincide in color, smell, taste, etc. In other words, the real and the real are cardinally different. People can dream that, here, there will be a weekend and then I... (further the long list of affairs and pleasant things), and on Saturday-Sunday it appears that it is impossible to make everything, and that what is made has not brought such pleasant sensations, as it would be desirable. And since nothing fundamentally new and bright happened, there is nothing to remember. On Monday it seems that the weekend has passed as one moment. A person feels cheated.
- The paradox of the holiday. When people experience pleasure, their present is stretched out and they enjoy the process. But when the holiday ends, it is "archived" in the head and shrunk, leaving only some significant events or facts. If you pick up repetitive episodes such as "fir-tree-saw-dancing", it turns out that there is nothing to remember in the dry residue. The time of the holiday is subjectively estimated as short.
- Social networks stretch the present very much, displacing the future and the past from perception. A person constantly gets new impressions, but they are so numerous that the brain at some point simply refuses to leave them in its reserves. (Yes! The brain cannot squeeze more than it should at once. Then it just stops working) They go through consciousness without any delay. In order to move forward and plan something, to feel that time is being used, it is necessary, being in the present, to have a future in perspective. But since the future is forced out of sight by the present, a person can sit for hours without any awareness that time is running out. As a result, people almost grasp at night (and even at night). The brain hasn't recorded anything during its stay in the net. Time has collapsed in its value practically in 0. There are no records of obvious events in memory. This case refers not only to the feeling of cozy cotegas, but also to any kind of shit. People emotionally find out who is wrong on the Internet, but in general it all ends with what started.
On the basis of this you can manipulate the perception of time. Naturally, the goals can be different. In order, for example, to program the future fall of the government, it is necessary to describe in as much detail as possible the happy future that awaits the people. As a result, the government will not be able to compete with the fantasy of the people about a bright future. And even if people will be in the process of "very good", in the aftermath, few people will remember it. There are not many events that are fundamentally different from each other.
As for useful applications, such manipulations help to solve many problems. This is the answer to the question of why we should remember the bad or some failures. When we remember, we drag the past into our present and only then can we put it in order.