"I prefer: "Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. - Virginia Woolf" Woolf seemed to recognize the spectrum on which time exists - its fluidity. Importantly, that time centers around humanity, because we track it. We frame it in terms of its past, present, and future. We observe its passage."
"Eagleman experiments with time and proves that time doesn't slow down, but your memory, triggered by your amygdala, captures the novelty of traumatic events "to attend to the situation at hand." Memories are created in a kind of second memory system that you may need in the future to avoid or deal with the trauma at hand. So your brain has more memories to draw from, and you perceive time as elongating."
Productivity idioms treat time as scarce and linear, but time can be experienced as fluid and centered on human perception. A Virginia Woolf quotation frames time as existing only in individual moments. Personal life changes and technology can make time feel faster, while traumatic events can feel elongated. Neuroscience shows that novelty in traumatic events triggers the amygdala and creates additional memories in a secondary system, increasing recalled details and producing perceived elongation of time. Temporal experience also varies culturally, with monochronic cultures emphasizing segmented linear time and polychronic cultures viewing time as recurring.
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