so fast when your on the computer. I look at the time and think ok I've got 15 minutes left before I go and do what ever, the next time I look its an hour later. Do you find this happens to you too.
2007-10-05 07:19:16 · 20 answers · asked by Roxy. 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Oh goodness yes!! I've bought myself a cooking timer so I set it to know when to stop...lol
2007-10-05 08:37:27 · answer #1 · answered by Croeso 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a clock above my computer that is back-to-front it is an anticlockwise clock but it still tells correct time.
Because I too have a tendancy to spend long periods of time surfing the ether usually in the USA, I have an alarm clock set for 2am but sometimes I am so involved I switch it off and continue for another hour. The main reason is that I host a joke site in the USA, have done since November 2006 when there were 700 jokes but now there are in excess of 3000.
But there I go again writing another book in answer to a question.
2007-10-05 14:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Terry G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time flies when you're having fun !! (?)
I do a lot of work on the computer because a great deal of my photography business has to do with digital services !! I love my work and am knee deep in the fray most of the time ! And, that is a double whammie because there are times that I get involved with a project and emerse myself so deeply that one of my people has to literally come and drag me to my next "thing" !! A day can go by so rapidly that I'll sit, that evening trying to place all the stuff in a line that happened so that I can keep an overview of "how it all is" !!
Zip Zapp and Zowie --- there goes another 30 days !!!!!!!!!!
2007-10-05 14:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do too. It is surprising sometimes how long one can spend on one question. By the time you have marshalled your facts and thoughts, then start typing and correcting what is a few minute task sometimes takes nearly half an hour.. You just don't realise how time is flying past when you are occupied... Similarly if chatting on a messenger, its not minutes, but hours that pass by.. Start at 9.30 or something and then realise it is nearly 1 in the morning... yawning your head off.
2007-10-05 14:29:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree with you absolutely.
There was a book that I read several years ago "The magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann. It was a very difficult book to read but the end result was that I understood that time is not a constant and consistant quantity in the human brain.
When we pass time doing nothing, time drags, every second passes with a tick of the clock and nothing happens. You can spend hours or days, even weeks in this situation.
Then when you are active and motivated, time flys past. there is not a minute to be lost as you rush along enjoying every second.
On reflection, the boreing times seem to last forever and the good times are but a fleeting glimpse of life. But when you do really look back at those times, the boreing times have dissapeared into nothing (when they seemed to be unending at the time) and the good times are filled with memories of every second. They seemed to flash past at the time but when you look back at them, they are full of memories, that can be recalled and relived again and again. Time has a duality. it is not constant. The difficult times are lost in space but the good times just fly past at the moment but last for ever in your memory.
Don't try to read Thomas Mann unless you are very interested in serious literature, it is hard work.
The simple answer is: time flys when you are enjoying yourself.
Enjoy it..x
2007-10-05 16:00:18 · answer #5 · answered by Will in Spain 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time flies when your on here. I come home from work at 10:30 PM and tell myself I'll only get on here for half an hour. If I'm not careful 2 hours go by.
2007-10-05 23:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the a.m. I have to keep an eye on the computer clock and allot myself only 15 minutes before I go to work! LOL
2007-10-05 14:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It happens to me too, my bedtime keeps getting later and later. lol Something that holds the interest just makes you forget about time and other things going on. I think it's great we aren't just sitting waiting for time to go by, these questions can really make you think sometimes.
2007-10-05 14:55:50 · answer #8 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time is not an exact measurement. It is relative to what you are doing but it is also relative to gravity and speed. The nearer a big gravity source you are the slower time will go and the faster you go the slower time will go. Satelite clocks have to be adjusted to bring them back to earth time
2007-10-05 14:36:15 · answer #9 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure does with me. I have to make myself get off a day here and there to convince myself I'm not addicted. Hard to beleive it took a year to bust out from just playing solitare.
2007-10-05 14:27:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋