time distortion
Clock's perceived bending
Time distortion is the subjective experience of time passing faster or slower than clock time would indicate.
Under hypnosis, intense focus, or altered states of consciousness, minutes can feel like hours or hours like minutes.
The phenomenon also appears in physics, where relativity predicts actual time dilation at high speeds or in strong gravitational fields.
In everyday speech, people describe time distortion when deeply absorbed in an activity I looked up and three hours had passed or when bored That meeting felt like it lasted forever.
- relativityHow observers differ
- dreamtimeSleep phase with visions
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- altered statesModified modes of awareness
- slipMinor error or misstep
hypnotic state · timelessness · depersonalization · déjà vu · fugue · rush · flow state · presentism · drag · boredom · hallucinations · dreamlike · waking dream · spacetime curvature · fever · trance · sensory deprivation · surreal
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- intoxication effectseuphoria, dizziness, slurred speech, drowsiness, confusion
- magical realismGabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Salman Rushdie, magical elements
- near-death experiencesout-of-body, tunnel of light, white light, bright light, life review
- perception errorsmisperception, illusion, optical illusion, blind spot, hallucination
- time perceptionduration, internal clock, slow motion, fleeting, dragging