After 2020 it seems many of us experienced time differently than expected. What is this phenomenon called?

  • dch82OP
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    4 months ago

    Yep, that’s what I meant :)

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Old people have been saying this since I was a kid, and I’m old now. Our perception of time appears to be weighted inversely with how much we’ve experienced, so summer feels like forever for a preteen, but two years is a blink of an eye to someone in their 50s. Couple that with no significant events or milestones for months or years, and your perception of time is further distorted. And now all those old people, like me, can talk to a million people online about it, so it appears more prevalent than it was before, when old people couldn’t or weren’t communicating with strangers half a world away on a daily basis.