How Your Brain Makes Time Pass Fast or Slow

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  • @besmart
    @besmart  4 ปีที่แล้ว +665

    Have you been feeling COVID time? WHAT DAY IS IT?!
    Let me know how you're feeling, and come find me on Instagram and Twitter: @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart

    • @guiorgy
      @guiorgy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Times going too fast. It feels like this whole covid thing only started a month ago.

    • @dandi-lion33
      @dandi-lion33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@guiorgy ikr

    • @miscellaneoussarnian5282
      @miscellaneoussarnian5282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It is Tuesday, the 1st of September 2020

    • @JacobTorres
      @JacobTorres 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re a boss

    • @dandi-lion33
      @dandi-lion33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@miscellaneoussarnian5282 yupp
      Ber months!

  • @cassandracrakes532
    @cassandracrakes532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2151

    “How is it September already.”
    I nodded to agree with him and realized...
    It's November.

    • @erinidum
      @erinidum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I came to the comments to say that.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I didn't even register it! ( *forehead slap*)

    • @acharya1574
      @acharya1574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's november

    • @acharya1574
      @acharya1574 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      it's december now

    • @jabagas620
      @jabagas620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      dude I did the same thing and when I read the comment I was like "Oh crap it is November," then I read the comment that said "It's December" and I was like "OH CRAP IT IS DECEMBER!"

  • @Opscot
    @Opscot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3961

    2020 felt like both a 100 years and a month has passed

    • @gjk-arts5855
      @gjk-arts5855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Doom Slayer Janurary,February, half of March
      normal time
      Quarantine months
      100000000000 years and 1 second has gone by

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Funtime Florian same, Quarantine made me depressed

    • @TheStonedSith420
      @TheStonedSith420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Funtime Florian same

    • @otakuman706
      @otakuman706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @J LA I didn't realize it was September until your comment....

    • @fareehaxoxo8568
      @fareehaxoxo8568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

  • @talhajobayer9863
    @talhajobayer9863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2008

    Man I missed you so much it feels like years...

  • @Samos900
    @Samos900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I’ve noticed this!! Whenever I move into a new environment, days feel like forever then once I get used to a new routine, time passes by much quicker! I like this explanation better than the “time speeds up as we age” theory which states time speeds up because for every year we live, one year becomes a smaller fraction of a whole (lifetime)

    • @shazuvai
      @shazuvai 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah that’s damn true. This month i realised that time passed quicker from 2020 when I got my own phone and using it more often. My 2022 also went very fast bcz I attended 8 hrs schl and 2 coachings each day and I came back at night and slept . I think this made my 2022 run fast…. I always came home at 8 o clock daily after schl and coaching which let me stay out of free times…

    • @MichaelC-to7uz
      @MichaelC-to7uz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's your attention span measured in time.

  • @DarkLadyPhoenix
    @DarkLadyPhoenix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Had a person call in on my call center Friday. Told a familiar story, so I said, "Yes, that was me who spoke with you yesterday." Only I couldn't find where the call had come in on yesterday's table. After some digging, we're both stunned for a minute to find out I had talked to her that Tuesday and both of us were missing like two days of time.

  • @PRDreams
    @PRDreams 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2358

    My husband just asked "where are the avocados that we got yesterday"
    We got them 4 days ago... 🤣

    • @sambishara9300
      @sambishara9300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      To be fair, Avocados are great.

    • @mogur00
      @mogur00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      the question does remain though

    • @Equa11ysurl
      @Equa11ysurl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      But where are the avocados?

    • @PRDreams
      @PRDreams 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@Equa11ysurl I'll never tell 😈😂🤣

    • @connor863
      @connor863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dang 🤣

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +878

    "Hey smart people..."
    But... what about the rest of us? * tries to take a sip of his soda, and pokes himself in the eye with the straw *

    • @cornlips7247
      @cornlips7247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Hey we can watch as well he is just not talking to us. 🤣
      Fantastic comment btw.

    • @epiphanyy146
      @epiphanyy146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ur comment is awesome and your name is even awesome - er

    • @ShadowManceri
      @ShadowManceri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I learned after second time not to use straw if I'm going to sip it. Now the problem is that without eyes I just pour the drink to my lap while trying to sip.

    • @NewMessage
      @NewMessage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I think we just figured out why smart people wear glasses!
      * puts on shades to test the theory, and stabs himself in the nostril with the straw *

    • @aaveey
      @aaveey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This does not apply to me because I don't use straws but it's funny

  • @Nick_Slavik
    @Nick_Slavik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1154

    "What! Day is it?"
    "It's Monday................."
    I dunno why, but I found that soooo damn funny! Hahah

    • @Nick_Slavik
      @Nick_Slavik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha 68 likes for this? Thanks everybody!

    • @peterw1534
      @peterw1534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What do you do with the likes?

    • @Nick_Slavik
      @Nick_Slavik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@peterw1534 not sure, I just find it funny that my comment had 68 likes and is now up to 74. Never had a comment get any likes in the past lol

    • @peterw1534
      @peterw1534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Nick_Slavik here's another one then

    • @jasonalangriffin
      @jasonalangriffin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      “What” day is it? She barks like a chihuahua

  • @educostanzo
    @educostanzo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    When he said it's September I thought "yeah, how come it's September already?" only to realize a moment later that it's actually November.

  • @blue_flame_art
    @blue_flame_art 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "at a constant rate of 1 second per second"
    ah yes the floor here is made out of floor

  • @frankhernandezb.6833
    @frankhernandezb.6833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    0:11 "at a constant rate of one second per second"
    Insert "Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa" meme

    • @VeggiePatch
      @VeggiePatch 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAOOO

    • @helencobler
      @helencobler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every 60 seconds in africa 60 seconds pass

    • @yuvrajkumar2048
      @yuvrajkumar2048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait
      One second per second is equal to 1sec/1sec
      Will not the they cut each other?
      So the answer will be 1?

    • @stritax9478
      @stritax9478 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yuvrajkumar2048 he means to say that the time duration of 1 second completes in, well... 1 second

  • @furqanbaba5274
    @furqanbaba5274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    Joe: count 7 seconds
    Me a drummer: 7 quater notes at 60 BPM.
    Nailed it

    • @BigDaddyWes
      @BigDaddyWes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Yeah musicians are better at estimating that. Plus 120 bpm is a very common tempo so it's quite easy to count out close to a second if you're intimate with that speed. 60bpm is quite slow though. Almost as slow as we can recognize as an actual beat.

    • @furqanbaba5274
      @furqanbaba5274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@BigDaddyWes to be honest I was counting 16th notes

    • @Algo1
      @Algo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yeah, my quarter notes weren't even but I stopped dead on.

    • @ralfier1
      @ralfier1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Having music to listen to during the counting made it easier. Musician here, too.

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not even a drummer but I know a song that's 66bpm so always use it as a reference lol

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +649

    I remember when my first child was born, my wife was not progressing, so they had her hooked up to a machine that monitored her contractions more than normal. I sat in front of that machine, at my wife's bedside, and watched it. It seemed like an eternity between contractions. But the whole experience went by very fast. I experienced each moment in slow motion (as much as Joe will allow me to say that), but the entire experience on fast forward.
    About kids experiencing time slower, I've heard a different idea. If you look at an 8 year old child, the time between their 7th and 8th birthdays is 12.5% of their life. If you look at a 50 year old adult, the time between their 49th and 50th birthdays is only 2% of their life.

    • @American-Plague
      @American-Plague 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      I have also heard this explanation in reference to why childhood seems so long.

    • @anuragchakraborty3432
      @anuragchakraborty3432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Logarithmic progression.

    • @itsnotyasir
      @itsnotyasir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      This was debunked once and in that video they explained what really happens. Your brain has constant activity but with time and age, this activity slows down ever so slightly but considerably. So say for example you experience 50 pulses per second in your brain when you're a teen but experience 48 during your adulthood. But 50 pulses is what your brain recognises as 1 second. What feels like 1 sec for you when you're an adult is actually 1 + a very small fraction. I'll share the video here if I ever find it.

    • @itsnotyasir
      @itsnotyasir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      th-cam.com/video/aIx2N-viNwY/w-d-xo.html found it!!!

    • @rickseiden1
      @rickseiden1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@itsnotyasir I wouldn't say that video debunks the "percentage of life" idea. Derick didn't provide any clinical studies that show otherwise. But, he made some very good points, and I have a lot of respect for Derick, so I can put aside my confirmation bias and say that his explanation is more likely than the "percentage of life" idea. (I was never really "married" to the idea, anyway. It was something I had heard before, so I shared it as an story. I never meant for it to be presented as fact.)

  • @Ritaaw1
    @Ritaaw1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for mentioning ptsd. When I was depressed, days felt super long and I hated it. It felt like it was too much for me. Honestly though I didn’t even sleep back then so it gave me extra hours to the day. Now when I don’t have depression, time goes by so much faster and I am super happy about it.

    • @Ritaaw1
      @Ritaaw1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Even when I walked a 500 meter trip from the bus stop to home, it felt like it was too long and I wanted to lay down in the ground. I can’t believe I was thinking about doing that, laying on my own yard on the wet ground when my apartment was right there.

  • @madiboggs6385
    @madiboggs6385 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was going to therapy the first half of quarantine, i was telling him how time felt like it was going by so fast. He was very confused at that, looking back i thrived in quarantine. I was going on runs every morning, doing yoga every night, cleaning my eating, lessening my spending and going out in nature more. AND raking in unemployment. I felt so good i dropped my therapist. Best decision ever. I miss it honestly.

  • @TraceDominguez
    @TraceDominguez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +464

    I LOVE the idea of time being akin to terrain or physical location. Time definitely feels like it's "behind" me, but I really like the idea of time being uphill… I gotta WORK to get to that future! Thanks, Joe!

    • @besmart
      @besmart  4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Love that!

    • @chickeninabox
      @chickeninabox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's downwords for me.

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Moving into the future often feels more like rolling down a hill.

    • @SamanthaBartonYAY
      @SamanthaBartonYAY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      make yourself a conlang and employ that

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But you can't roll back down the hill... and the future is coming whatever you do. If you sit at home doing nothing, or go out and do something, even if you go into a coma or even die, time's not going to wait for you. It will keep going at the same rate regardless of _anything,_ anything at all, to do with you or anyone else. If the entire human race fell unconscious, and even if they never woke up, _time wouldn't change._ Not actual time. Nothing we do can change it. You can't go down the hill and you can't stop going up, which doesn't sound at all like an actual hill. If anything, it works better the other way around.

  • @queenkerry-ann8096
    @queenkerry-ann8096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Scrolling through Pinterest and waiting for something in the microwave are two different speeds of time

  • @JonathanMickelson
    @JonathanMickelson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +587

    You know it is COVID when IOTBS is filled with binge-worthy show references... "Rick Sanchez, I'd like you to meet my friend Jeremy Bearimy."

    • @dorjjodvo1992
      @dorjjodvo1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Can't wait for season 5

    • @MaraMara89
      @MaraMara89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dorjjodvo1992 Season 5 of what?

    • @erazn9077
      @erazn9077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@MaraMara89 Rick and Morty from adult swim
      Oh and the Jeremy Bearimy bit is from a show called The Good Place

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did he actually say that? I love TGP and didn't notice it lol

    • @JonathanMickelson
      @JonathanMickelson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@nahuelma97 Yeah! In the last three words of the video in the ending/outro he says, "Jeremy Bearimy Baby."

  • @joshuaschertzer7133
    @joshuaschertzer7133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Honestly since reflecting on time since March, I feel like a completely different person. I truly think quarantine has changed me as a person. It feels like years ago hearing my professors say “guys you might wanna take your things home with you in case we don’t come to school next week”

  • @olaj3050
    @olaj3050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    7:51 I think this way of looking at time is my favourite. The older you get the higher you are on this huge mountain. And when you look down you can see your past which may seem tempting but you don't give up and keep going higher.

  • @leithscrumhalf4143
    @leithscrumhalf4143 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
    Groucho Marx

    • @purplefire2834
      @purplefire2834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Someday, time is going to suddenly stop. Thump.

    • @perfectibility999
      @perfectibility999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I hate it when I'm doing archery and times flies keep landing on my arrows.

    • @stevesteaven8349
      @stevesteaven8349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wait, that's what that zilean quote is from. Not sure why I wouldn't have just looked up the quote.

    • @dorjjodvo1992
      @dorjjodvo1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Somehow I thought this was a play on words like "fruit flies landing on banana" 😂

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dorjjodvo1992 it is a play on words, it's called a Crash Blossom

  • @anaksamanananggal3940
    @anaksamanananggal3940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Joe: "why Tuesdays feels like it's July"
    Me: *why September feels like it's January*

    • @joerionis5902
      @joerionis5902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Why and hour feels like 10 minutes?

    • @megelizabeth9492
      @megelizabeth9492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's the dot in the i of the Jeremy Bearimy.

    • @chrism6880
      @chrism6880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why does Saturday taste like purple?

    • @Alfred1035
      @Alfred1035 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe because you’re in school it’s the beginning of the school year. And summer just feel like a big holiday just ended

    • @mrkalenda4911
      @mrkalenda4911 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So this comment was made 2 years agoooo and we are in September 2022 lolll

  • @user-em8fq2ev4b
    @user-em8fq2ev4b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    I was way off on the 7s...
    Then i realized, I was watching at 2x speed...

    • @x._.5295
      @x._.5295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oh thanks, I was wondering why I was off too😭

    • @stegnosis
      @stegnosis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Glad to meet a fellow 2x champion

    • @kevin3434343434
      @kevin3434343434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      2x crew checking in

    • @paddor
      @paddor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You guys in a hurry or something?

    • @rakshas1340
      @rakshas1340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      god damn same i thought "am i that bad ?", thank you

  • @PaladinNay
    @PaladinNay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I always figured time seemed slower as a kid because we had less time to compare it to. Like, one month as a 27-year-old doesn't seem like a huge amount of time, but when you're 6 years old one month is a much larger percent of your total life up to that point.

  • @ricobhi
    @ricobhi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    During this whole video, I was working myself up to write a comment noting the absence of any Jeremy Bearimy reference. And then, to my absolute delight, it finally came. My faith remains unbroken.

  • @rockyreyes9320
    @rockyreyes9320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    We are stuck in the dot over the I in Jeremy bearimy.
    I love the reference to one of my favorite shows ever The Good Place!

  • @noncsi121
    @noncsi121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    The dot on the i in Jeremy Bearimy

    • @abigail4269
      @abigail4269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      LOL 😂

    • @musaddiqmunirliman8267
      @musaddiqmunirliman8267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Take it sleazy

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The dot broke my mind, I'm broken.

    • @sm92127
      @sm92127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why did I also think of this

    • @Kevin-um1nq
      @Kevin-um1nq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sm92127 pretty sure they did it on purpose, its the exact same line

  • @xX_wiLLiam_Xx
    @xX_wiLLiam_Xx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    January - July: lasts 2 seconds
    August - December: lasts 10000 years

    • @bhazinumbr
      @bhazinumbr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      To me it's the opposite, once you hit September, you are already in Christmas

    • @fishplays1364
      @fishplays1364 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EXACTLYYYY

    • @BlitheDream
      @BlitheDream 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      May - August 10000 years
      September- April 5 seconds

    • @alejotassile6441
      @alejotassile6441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it's the opposite for me

    • @Jhiltz45
      @Jhiltz45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For me it is the other way around

  • @DrexYiii
    @DrexYiii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh my god, the people saying times been slower in 2020, covid was new, when I watched anime for the first time, new experience, thats why is lasted so long. My god I love this channel

  • @TravisPluss
    @TravisPluss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This. I’ve been telling my family the exact same thing. I’ve been practicing making new experiences for myself so I can appreciate time more.

  • @Adamimoka
    @Adamimoka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    8:21 “We are living through a massive global experiment.”
    Conspiracy theorists: *hmmmm...*

  • @mr.boomguy
    @mr.boomguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    The perpetual spinning globe at the start, desturbed me more then it should have xD

    • @shoo-sho-sha
      @shoo-sho-sha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It would've been less distracting without that "whooshing" sound effect playing constantly.

    • @beanzwasps
      @beanzwasps 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      popetual

    • @strya27
      @strya27 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am forever sacred

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beanzwasps Was you try to correct me? Cuss we wrote it both whrong xD

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EcoHotdogJust did so before you said it

  • @dragonfury1565
    @dragonfury1565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The fact that he actually posted this on a Tuesday, also i experience “covid time” all the time, even during not quarantine I rarely go outside, corona barely changed anything for me

    • @doglover33246
      @doglover33246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      he posted it on my birfday

    • @dragonfury1565
      @dragonfury1565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      andermander1 Nice, happy birthday

    • @doglover33246
      @doglover33246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dragonfury1565 thanks m8

    • @xexpaguette
      @xexpaguette 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@doglover33246 happy birthday, it's my dad's birthday too so yay, covid cake tastes good

    • @conan2650
      @conan2650 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Happy Birthday bro

  • @solo-angel
    @solo-angel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    This rotating globe is very annoying and anxiety-envoking.

    • @HornOKPlease
      @HornOKPlease 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know right!

    • @DiTinman
      @DiTinman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree !.

    • @nachinathan3846
      @nachinathan3846 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then don't watch it

    • @junkmail4613
      @junkmail4613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nachinathan3846 1 month ago,, "Then don't watch it"
      Do anything you want, "JUST DON'T THINK OF THE COLOR GREEN!!!"

    • @Poetry4Peace
      @Poetry4Peace 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@junkmail4613 ur dp makes green too easy to 🤔 of 👅

  • @Sariellxo
    @Sariellxo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’ve been experiencing this and didn’t know how to sum it up in words. This video explained exactly what I been feeling since COVID-19 hit and we all been stuck at home. The days go by slow but at the same time time is flying faster than before. Strange but true.

  • @creamy_croissant
    @creamy_croissant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Joe: "In Vietnamese... - the 'before time' which is known to us and seen clearly in our memories - is in front of us, not behind us..."
    Me being a Vietnamese: "What is he talking about?"
    I have no idea.

    • @chukhali
      @chukhali 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same here

    • @thongtran4640
      @thongtran4640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I mean he means “Hom truoc” and “Hom sau”. Truoc is In front of, Sau is Behind.

    • @kd8543
      @kd8543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thien Vu Could you help to explain please?

    • @melloboiyoiy7658
      @melloboiyoiy7658 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me neither

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He also made reference to South America using in front and behind for past and future respectively and I've no idea lol

  • @gowzahr
    @gowzahr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Listening to this while driving, the past really is behind me.

  • @artpacsol
    @artpacsol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Anyway, I'm pretty sure the last second before you can skip youtube publicity is way longer.

  • @RebeccaMorningstar
    @RebeccaMorningstar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    For me this year has felt really fast, despite being stressful. My sleep pattern was totally destroyed, sometimes sleeping until 10 PM, sometimes being awake for over a day. The result is that days sometimes seem to pass like minutes and it kind of sucks because I feel like I have lost so much time just from how fast it goes.

  • @emiliecoteb7
    @emiliecoteb7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is how I experienced time when I had a depression. In fact, at the very start I thought I had it again because some things where so similar like the experience of time, the isolation and the feeling of grief. I'm sorry you all have to experience a little bit of what it feels like to be depressed but I'm happy it's new to most of you.

  • @danielsaysallonsy
    @danielsaysallonsy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Whoever's idea it was to drop a Good Place reference in the title of this video...I see you and I appreciate you.

    • @quin2910
      @quin2910 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn I don't get it

  • @shanusays
    @shanusays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    Exception: musicians. We keep time with a 60bpm tempo.

    • @Madeline_Mahoney_25
      @Madeline_Mahoney_25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep

    • @stephenmusic69420
      @stephenmusic69420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I use a 120bpm tempo but i halftime the snare

    • @shanusays
      @shanusays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @CHARITY DAZLEY musicians train themselves to get a sense of time passing. So does many other occupations/sports. That's the point here.

    • @araecieon
      @araecieon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can confirm. I know exactly how many minutes days months I’ve been out of work.

    • @helllife0210
      @helllife0210 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But they are superhumans

  • @kyoza5069
    @kyoza5069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    3:07 Heck yeah, a Pip-Boy!
    Also that Neil DeGrasse-Tyson quip was golden 😂😂

  • @keimakatsuragi1705
    @keimakatsuragi1705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As you said the perception of time differs by emotion but if a person is not only used to but actually not affected by it through adapting you are able to act and feel happy.

  • @bombelz
    @bombelz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is also a great motivation in this: if seeing/learning new things prolongs our perceived time passage, learning can at least extend your perceived time on earth

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It took me a moment to figure out, but that's Rick pushing Morty off a building.

  • @Ari-iq6uj
    @Ari-iq6uj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When Joe said "point to the past" I got all confused thinking, "you cant point to the past..."

    • @cheeseriners
      @cheeseriners 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I pointed left.... Prolly too much 2 dimensional math in my life :D

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loool me too, I was like "what? You can't"

    • @Madeline_Mahoney_25
      @Madeline_Mahoney_25 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @fluffywolf6300
      @fluffywolf6300 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Invalid dimension.
      Abort, Retry, Fail?

    • @tediousgeorge7159
      @tediousgeorge7159 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cheeseriners Same, but I blame Mario Bros.

  • @Chakravarti2911
    @Chakravarti2911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You are the one who made me addicted to biology. I love biology.

  • @gretatodorova9929
    @gretatodorova9929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I shared this with my students! And since they are getting it in a scence subject, I am highly appreciative of the references that you have inclued. It is such a nice way to give them a little bit of fun but packed with scientific backing! Thank you for the extra efforts !

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for educating the youth. Your services are appreciated.

  • @rankamoeba4979
    @rankamoeba4979 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The fact that i forgot what day is today and it's monday blows my mind.

  • @yogurt5280
    @yogurt5280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Lmao the title is a "The Good Place" reference. 10/10

    • @xponen
      @xponen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ???

    • @Epiccatqueen-un1ew
      @Epiccatqueen-un1ew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I watched the good place who knows how many times before the pandemic but I have no idea what the reference was. Probably because it feels like over approximately 4.7 years

    • @magdaghirma
      @magdaghirma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did he change it?

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did the title change?

    • @a-stark3
      @a-stark3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      wot?

  • @arm4ix
    @arm4ix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When I was coming onto an MDMA experience there was a minute or 2 when everything was sped up, as in the video part when it's sped up (even the pitch of sounds was higher). My perception was the same, it was simply that everything around me was sped up. It wasn't a memory glitch, it happened in actual time. It freaked me tf out.

  • @antifern0
    @antifern0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When we have a listening test in class and we can listen to it twice, the second time listening always seems shorter! This video explains it, because the experience isn’t ‘new’ anymore.

  • @donnamariedemaio
    @donnamariedemaio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is brilliant! Why am I just finding this program now?! God bless PBS!

  • @CrescentPaws5000
    @CrescentPaws5000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Me who has adhd and has never had a sense of time wait having a sense of time is normal

  • @minhtrivo143
    @minhtrivo143 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    In Vietnam, there’s a term called “Nhìn lại quá khứ”, which’s directly translated into “Looking back at the past”, and “Hướng tới tương lai” - “Looking forward into the future”. And in my experience, I always think the past is behind me and the future is ahead of me.
    So I quite disagree to what he said at 7:36. Good video, just a minor nitpick.
    (Sorry for my bad English)

    • @drkmn3112
      @drkmn3112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think what he meant was the past is "trước đó" and future is "sau đó", it's depend on the context. Also Joe & team are foreigners and phong ba bão táp không bằng ngữ pháp Việt Nam mà 😁😁

    • @American-Plague
      @American-Plague 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Sorry for my bad English." WHAT?! Your (written) English is better than a lot of native speakers!

    • @joyalpatel6000
      @joyalpatel6000 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      drkmn3112 When we use which we do not add ‘a’s’

  • @laasya6144
    @laasya6144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey Joe! Love your vids! I just impressed my science teacher and that is what I call an achievement with your vids! Thanks!

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:11 the face on animated Neils face 😂😂priceless

  • @mattmobileE
    @mattmobileE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    It's now close to being year 2022, covid is still raging and to me it feels like it's still year 2020

    • @eggsisinsanity
      @eggsisinsanity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude same 😅

    • @lucianocasanova8924
      @lucianocasanova8924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It really shows years are legit a human social construct eh?

    • @billionairestash7972
      @billionairestash7972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same and kinda feel sad too it's my last years of high school which i always looked forward to make new memories but everything is doomed I am sad ......and i Don't even know if i will be friends with whom I am friends right now in the future.

    • @KidPrarchord95
      @KidPrarchord95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@billionairestash7972 Hey, chin up! Everything is gonna work out just fine.

    • @bizarreness
      @bizarreness 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and it blew up again in 2022

  • @SuperManning11
    @SuperManning11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For a minute I thought this was going to go the way of the 7 day week video, but it ended up staying ‘on the rails’ so to speak. The 7 day week video remains my all-time favorite.

  • @slavsquatsuperstar
    @slavsquatsuperstar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    4:18 "While those who felt happy... How?" xD

    • @JeroenJA
      @JeroenJA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cause they own amazon?

  • @Scientastica
    @Scientastica 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Time feels so slow during this pandemic as well, videos like this is what keep us going :)

    • @Dirge4july
      @Dirge4july 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If times moving to slow for you then time for a new hobby. Summer flew by way to quick for me.

    • @Scientastica
      @Scientastica 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dirge4july lucky you! I did pick up a couple of hobbies, still! it's slower than usual during these depressing times.

  • @jonathanarthuritoaldisinag573
    @jonathanarthuritoaldisinag573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love it when neil comes to interrupt and explain general relativity

  • @tabledrawzz801
    @tabledrawzz801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I opened my eyes at the exact moment he told us to open our eyes. I'm not a musician or anything. I just practiced way too many times in front of the microwave

  • @junkmail4613
    @junkmail4613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nicholas Slavik 8 months ago, "What! Day is it?" . . . "It's Monday................."
    "THAT CAN'T BE, IT WAS MONDAY LAST WEEK!" . . . "I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER IT!"

  • @NickFisherman
    @NickFisherman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I remember trying to explain to my grandparents that they would literally live longer if they sought out new experiences, and picked up hobbies. They never understood.

    • @pattsw
      @pattsw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Probably because they wouldn't literally live longer, they would just experience it more slowly.

    • @NickFisherman
      @NickFisherman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pattsw not true. If you give up on life, life gives up on you. When an elderly person deliberately stops being able to experience joy, they literally die faster.

    • @MarcusCollins69
      @MarcusCollins69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NickFisherman maybe they were just tired of living
      I know I'm getting there already

    • @NickFisherman
      @NickFisherman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MarcusCollins69 real sweet of you to suggest that a stranger's loved ones wanted to die. You must be a therapist, or a hostage negotiator.

    • @MarcusCollins69
      @MarcusCollins69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NickFisherman no, I'm 17

  • @hassassinator8858
    @hassassinator8858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    When you're so early that all the comments are saying how early they are

    • @samthegreatman
      @samthegreatman 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      People should realize there is this magical thing called not commenting.

    • @hassassinator8858
      @hassassinator8858 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lemomar (⌐■-■)

    • @rolfs2165
      @rolfs2165 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gabor6259 You're not wrong, but comments count as interaction for the algorithm, pushing a video's rating higher and making it more likely to be suggested to people who might not follow the channel yet.

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rolfs2165 TH-cam's algorithm is of poor design then.

  • @mitwhitgaming7722
    @mitwhitgaming7722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    4:18
    Me having more time to play the backlog of videogames I have been meaning to play.

  • @annaz7996
    @annaz7996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It finally hit me. You're Bill Nye the science guy for adults.

  • @LaynieFingers
    @LaynieFingers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Covid hasn't really affected my sense of time, mainly because I'm disabled and don't work. My sense of time has been screwed for years!

    • @MadPetal
      @MadPetal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same here! Times felt like this for ages, sometimes I worry because my life has been like this for years and hasn't changed during the pandemic and everyone is saying how much of an impact its had on their mental health.

    • @mikahkilgore4972
      @mikahkilgore4972 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am in a similar situation. Covid hasn’t really changed my life much.

    • @foxiefair123
      @foxiefair123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m disabled, too, and I don’t work outside my house nor do I go places very often, yet I feel like time passes extremely fast and I never get everything done at home no matter what.😂I wonder why…

    • @LaynieFingers
      @LaynieFingers 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@foxiefair123 Yes, I know that feeling.

  • @rainstriderstreamflower5645
    @rainstriderstreamflower5645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When I"m in a lot of pain 15 minutes can feel like a half an hour! One time I was in so much pain, that 5 minute literally felt like 15!

  • @BakedPhoria
    @BakedPhoria 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Between a past we can remember and a future which we cannot"
    how crazy would it be to remember your future

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ooh! I think that happened in Doctor Who though. Something about memories trickling down along your timeline or something, and that's what déjà vu is. I think it's when I dreamt about something similar.

    • @Gamerdude753
      @Gamerdude753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the King Arthur legends Merlin lived backwards in time. The future was the past for him and the past was the future for him. In other words he remembered the future but the past was all new to him.

    • @anurati2441
      @anurati2441 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The movie Arrival explains this quite well, check it out!

    • @Christine.Baraka
      @Christine.Baraka 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be called déjà vu...but is it real or just an illusion?? 👀

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arrival much?

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    My theory on the "why does time pass faster when you're older" is simple: each given moment is a smaller percent of your total life/memory when you're older.
    When you're four years old, trying to remember something that happened a year ago - that's 25% of your total life! That's a significant chunk of all your memories!
    When you're 100 years old, trying to remember something that happened a year ago is only 1% of your total life. A much smaller chunk of all your memories. Your perception of "a year" is 1%, not 25%.

    • @peterw1534
      @peterw1534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "Your" theory is well know and has been around long before you

    • @gqsmooth1969
      @gqsmooth1969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      While this theory has some merit, it more about novelty. Your brain is hardwired to focus on new information as a defense mechanism. The more new information recieved, the more vivid the memory.

    • @thebigksmoosey
      @thebigksmoosey 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've always thought the same thing.

  • @silvertheelf
    @silvertheelf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You:”COVID has messed up your sense of time”
    Me who now knows what time it is:”yeah, normally I don’t know what time it is.”

  • @awesomness6775
    @awesomness6775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:35 I pointed backwards but only because that is where a door is and I was on the other side of the door a few minutes ago so that is where I was in the past.

  • @suenio9076
    @suenio9076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    *EVERY 60 SECONDS IN AFRICA A MINUTE PASSE*

  • @watergrowsifwatered8048
    @watergrowsifwatered8048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "That constant ticking sound"
    Me: "unuS ANNUS!"

  • @DenajM25
    @DenajM25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The exact reason why going back through the same path seems faster.

  • @zema9401
    @zema9401 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Neil was perfectly implemented.
    He just swooped into a space no one ask him to enter and explained stuff that kinda is related to the topic but still has no place in the situation. All that while trying to sound as smart as possible.

  • @cheaterman49
    @cheaterman49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:20 That was a great cameo hahaha, very "à propos", and in case it wasn't actually Neil's voice, props to the impersonation :-)

  • @JeoshuaCollins
    @JeoshuaCollins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Huge missed opportunity to make Cartoon Neil deGrasse Tyson do the "Look out, we got a bad ass over here" gesture.

  • @DogsaladSalad
    @DogsaladSalad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    7:55 (unexpectedly terrifying closeup) LOOK AT THESE DOTS

  • @b3nsu
    @b3nsu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    The dot on the i.....
    that broke me, I'm done

    • @thatoneparticularsquid8311
      @thatoneparticularsquid8311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I had to scroll for far too long to find a comment about the good place

    • @b3nsu
      @b3nsu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thatoneparticularsquid8311 its a sad world

  • @badrmukhtar809
    @badrmukhtar809 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man that news reporter reminded me that it really WAS Monday and I have a train to catch. Saved my life!!

  • @katiobrien7854
    @katiobrien7854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love your videos. Presentation makes learning really interesting.

  • @WTBirt
    @WTBirt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When you're young, say 5 years old, and you become a year older you add 1/5th. When you're 50 years old you add 1/50th. Hence the years seem to go faster when you're getting older.

  • @alcodark
    @alcodark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

  • @A_ldo..
    @A_ldo.. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I remember you from “so you want to go to mars?” I miss 7th grade....

  • @beastlover
    @beastlover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm happy because fortunately I dont have stress over losing a loved one, I have online learning and I'm more of an introvert so I enjoy being home

  • @ryanblack844
    @ryanblack844 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Time flies when you're having fun. On the other hand when you're suffering in pain or just generally unhappy time drags on so slowly.

  • @teo6990
    @teo6990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2:21 poor Morty

  • @myscreen2urs
    @myscreen2urs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Time is definitely a concept. This reminds me of how different films seem short or long relative to their run time.
    I notice that when a film seemed longer but it only runs like 90-100 mins, and I reflect on the story and events in the film, there tends to be more events in that film. And on the other end of that, I've also noticed that some longer films that might run for 120+ mins seemed to go by quickly. In those films, there tends to be fewer but more major events that took longer portions of the film to get through.
    Also, I've always disagreed with the maxim of "time flies when you're having fun" and the notion that it drags out when your not. In my experience, I've had great times that seemed to pass quickly and also ones that seemed to last forever. And the same for not so great times. I think there are other factors that determines that effect. Might have to do with how your focusing in that moment.

  • @thepilotman5378
    @thepilotman5378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    When he said point to the past I just felt confused; my thought was: "I can't point to the past, it no longer exists" And when Joe pointed backwards I realized that I, again am special.

    • @sandy1788
      @sandy1788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This happened to me too!!

    • @daanwilmer
      @daanwilmer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I felt the same, and now I thought about it more, I think that the past - or at least my past - is inside me. Now is around me, and from there all different futures are paths in different directions from where I am.

    • @Britishhick
      @Britishhick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I did the same, mildly confused for a second, then couldn't really identify where the past "is" and ended pointing vaguely upward? I almost thought to point inward but then decided that doesn't make any sense. This whole comment is annoying my brain now.

    • @syrrysaver2775
      @syrrysaver2775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I curled my index finger back into my palm in a gesture that could be seen as pointing in reverse. I can't establish a fix on the direction that is 90° from up-down, left-right and front-back.

    • @masonwhite5395
      @masonwhite5395 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

  • @chironOwlglass
    @chironOwlglass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For most of my life, time seemed to move so slowly. Most people say that as they age, time seems to move more quickly, but that wasn't my experience. It was only once I got my histamine levels under control (I had multiple undiagnosed food and environmental allergies) that time seemed to start speeding up. Histamine is also involved in reaction times, so it may well be involved in the perception of the passing of time. It's certainly a large part of our circadian rhythms, as it controls wakefulness (it wakes you up in the morning)

  • @FinGeek4now
    @FinGeek4now 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember seeing a video about written language and our perception of the environment as it pertained to the movie Arrival. Interesting concept, especially since time is not linear, only our perception of it is.

  • @note5068
    @note5068 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "The time is always changing time, and time exist because of time, time is time"
    -A guy who forgot the name

    • @nahuelma97
      @nahuelma97 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      His own, or of the person who said that?

  • @pranavgautam96
    @pranavgautam96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    00:06 - If it is 23 hours and 56 minutes, why is the clock of exact 24 hours? We gain 4 minutes every day that means?
    Edit - Found this explanation. Stil confused.
    (If our definition of a day was truly based on one complete rotation of the Earth on its axis - a 360 degree spin - then a day would be 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. This is nearly 4 minutes shorter than our 24-hour standard day. However, our concept of a “day” has long been based on the natural cycle of sunlight - a period of daylight followed by a period without daylight. The mismatch of nearly 4 minutes is because the Earth must rotate more than 360 degrees between one dawn and the next. As you know, the Earth experiences two simultaneous motions - it not only spins on its axis, but it also travels in orbit around the sun. In a period of one day, the Earth travels about 1/365 of the way around the sun (because it takes about 365 days to go all the way around, which is how we define a year). This daily progress in the Earth’s orbit is almost exactly a degree (defined as 1/360 of a circle). Therefore the Earth has to spin an extra degree in order to line up with the sun again each day. The result is that one complete cycle of sunlight and darkness - one day - represents a rotation of about 361 degrees, not 360 degrees. Although a year consists of 365 and a quarter days, the Earth actually spins 366 and a quarter times during a year. From the standpoint of sunrises and sunsets, one complete spin is negated each year by the journey around the sun.)

    • @besmart
      @besmart  4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      24 hours is how long it takes for the sun to return to the same spot in the sky. Earth’s rotation takes sightly less time (because we are also orbiting the sun)

    • @pranavgautam96
      @pranavgautam96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@besmart Make a videeoo!!

    • @a.wosaibi
      @a.wosaibi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@pranavgautam96 Might I point you to an excellent Vsauce video about this exact thing called "How Earth Moves"

    • @pranavgautam96
      @pranavgautam96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@a.wosaibi Thanks.

    • @jsans2520
      @jsans2520 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I needed this

  • @kittybeans8192
    @kittybeans8192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    6:25 well I was confused as to how to point in space to time but I mean alright I guess I'll just uhh point...

    • @ce4072
      @ce4072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was also thinking left.

    • @1manApocalypse_CP
      @1manApocalypse_CP 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just didn't point at all.

  • @dtsybulskyi
    @dtsybulskyi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gosh, thought I was the only one confused with time perception during pandemic - seems like it was yesterday, yet like years ago - thanks a lot for video!