time appears to expand and compress according to your state of mind why is this?

Question

and can this be harnessed

Answer 1

"Objective" time is time measured by the clock. Clocks are human inventions (as is "time" itself) but they are very regular.

What you're referring to is called "subjective" time. It is affected by your health, wakefullness, sobriety, how busy you are (or aren't) and other psychological factors.

When you're young, days seem much longer than when you're older. When you're bored, let's say waiting for something boring to end, it can seem like forever. When you're having fun, subjective time can pass in a flash. Too bad it's not the other way around!

Anyway, our brains don't have a mechanism to "measure" time accurately the way that a clock does.

You could harness subjective time to get more done if you keep track of what actions make time "last longer". For example, I'm very tired right now, so it took me a long time to write this. If I were answering right after I woke up, it'd be finished quickly ... and with less words!

Answer 2

There is a finite amount of energy in your brain. During stressful situations your brain allocates this energy into places that is best needed. For example, when some people are focusing on an object intensely, the brain will shut off one eye to get a clearer image. So, time only appears to expand and compress, but it's really just more or less energy allocated to the optical or cognitive portions of your brain.

Can this be harnessed? I suppose it is possible. Some people with mental disabilities can preform this action, but I have no idea how.

Answer 3

At one time there was a mine accident in Germany, the men trapped numbered 8. One of the men in the group,(the Foreman) was the only one to own a watch. Being educated in his position, the man knew there was only( to our understanding ) an amount of air to last 48 hours. He announced this to the men but later was to be found lying to them. In actuality there was only 48 hours of air in such a small space and the man with the watch did notify the men in hopes of being rescued the passing of an hour on the hour. His lie was that when he was telling the men only an hour had passed really two had passed. In turn the men were rescued in under 96 hours by a few but the man with the watch passed out only to die before the rescuing. This plays a large roll in TIME being a product of our "mans" creation. we simply have the bounds of our physical realm hindering the mass conscience of mankind animals are at the fate of natural cyclic events in there surroundings to weigh Bering on the survival. The coming and going of the sun. The seasons, etc... quantum-physically understanding our uni - or - multiverse is the next step to mankind's expansion to is existence.

Answer 4

its all perspective...its just our brain not being as aware of time as it might when we think time is going "slower"...this is more of a phsychology question then a physics question...and no it cant be harnessed

Answer 5

No