why is it that people always say they are gaining an hour or losing an hour of sleep whenever the time changes, when they could just lose or gain an hour of there daytime activities time...I don't loose or gain any sleep, I still sleep the same amount
2007-03-10 07:28:56 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Do you thihnk its because the experience of losing or gaining time is an illusion. like maybe it's probably the result of bad diet or not enough sex or having too much time on your hands and masturbating to forget about it?
2007-03-10 07:44:39 · update #1
Think of it like this: Time is the imaginary line that connects past, present, and future, so each present moment is a moment of time, which contains all that there is in the present, while having lost the past, and not yet gained the future.
It's not like time is ticking, but it just seems that way because that's how we experience time. There is no true analogy for time, but we all know that it exists. So time is a knowledge or awareness of a moment passing by. Most often time is categorized through different thoughts or emotions, conclusions or impulses.
2007-03-10 08:46:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well put it this way...most people may be off tomorrow because it's Sunday so who cares if the time goes ahead? But I'm working dayshift tomorrow. So when I get up at 5 a.m. to make it to work for 6 a.m., it's going to feel like (because it actually is) 4 a.m. Which just sucks! I'm not a morning person anyway. I'm a nightowl & I prefer nightshifts. Already I wouldn't have gotten that much sleep, now it will be even less. I suppose I'd better go to bed soon after I get home from my 12 hour shift (around 6:30 pm) today...
Have I mentioned that I detest my job?!
Maybe time doesn't really exist if you have no plans. If you're on an island somewhere & don't have to go to work, but when you have commitments & responsibilities you live by the clock & the calendar & losing an hour of sleep (you are losing an hour! It gets skipped over! The hour I would have been in dreamland from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. is gone in an instant) is difficult. Yeah it will be nice to have more sunlight if I survive to see it!!!
:)
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2007-03-10 16:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time doesn't really exist. It's a human idea created to bring order to chaos. I think the thing of loosing sleep is not so much that it's lost but that it takes place at a different time, it upsets our own natural sense of what when things should happen.
2007-03-10 17:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lifeless Energy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clock time is a convience measure. Time itself is neither gained or lost. The reference hour is just shifted up or down in the day. Whereas the elapse time remains constant.
2007-03-10 16:09:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we say we lose an hour in the spring because we move the clocks forward an hour tonight. so we lose an hour either going to bed an hour earlier or we lose it because the clock moves forward an hour. the opposite happens in the fall when we move the clocks back an hour.
PS hate your icon (i don't like him ether). but that still doesn't excuse it.
2007-03-10 15:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by insane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because sleep is the most important thing for people who say such a thing.
It is the tool by which they measure time !
Have Fun
2007-03-10 15:41:50 · answer #6 · answered by iChrist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Daylight "savings" time is foolishness. I wish the government would wake up and eliminate this clock-changing nonsense.
2007-03-10 16:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by pmzenz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time for some people to grow a brain .
2007-03-10 18:06:19 · answer #8 · answered by missmayzie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why would you waste 5 pts. on this question.
2007-03-10 15:36:37 · answer #9 · answered by Andrew B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Andrew has the right answer !
2007-03-10 15:37:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋