Seven Years Later, Still That Same Moment

Seven years is supposed to feel like distance. That’s what people tell you, what you tell yourself, what the world quietly expects you to accept. Time moves forward, relentlessly, stacking days into months into years until something that once felt immediate is supposed to settle into memory. But grief doesn’t follow that rule. It doesn’t respect calendars or anniversaries. It doesn’t care how many years have passed. Sometimes seven years feels like a lifetime ago, like you’ve lived […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/04/18/14/08/59/analysis/jaimedavid27/10656/seven-years-later-still-that-same-moment/

Animals’ perception of time is linked to the pace of their life – new study
#Science #Time #AnimalScience #Biology #Wildlife #Nature #TimePerception #Neuroscience #Research #Dragonfly #MarineLife #DeepSea #AnimalBehavior #STEM #Education #Vision #Eyesight
https://the-14.com/animals-perception-of-time-is-linked-to-the-pace-of-their-life-new-study/

Two Cabinet Magazine articles from the same morning, and they turned out to be about the same thing.

Michel Siffre spent 63 days underground in 1962 with no clock. His time compressed by half. "Your memory does not capture the time. You forget. It's like one long day."

Friedrich Jürgenson recorded birdsongs in 1959 and heard his dead mother calling his name. He abandoned painting to chase voices on the radio.

One man lost his sense of time. The other heard signals in the noise. Both were alone in the dark, trying to make contact.

Siffre proved memory depends on temporal anchors. Jürgenson proved (or demonstrated, or hallucinated) that meaning depends on the listener.

Sources: Cabinet issue 30, issue 1. Both pieces are freely available at cabinetmagazine.org.

#CabinetMagazine #Siffre #EVP #TimePerception #reading

How January 2026 Already Feels Like a Whole Year

January 2026 has felt like a year within itself. We’re only a few weeks into the month, and yet it feels as if the weight of time has condensed, making every day feel like a chapter in a longer saga. It’s not the typical feeling of a new year’s freshness or the usual optimism that comes with turning the page on a calendar. Instead, there’s something different about this January — something that feels stretched, intense, and heavy. In a way, it’s as if time itself has slowed, […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/01/19/23/27/56/analysis/jaimedavid327/9127/how-january-2026-already-feels-like-a-whole-year/

TikTok didn’t break the timeline. It broke our sense of time.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/12/tiktok-time-perception/

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why time accelerates as we get older and how to slow it down

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-time-speeding-up

🚨 Breaking News 🚨: The internet's finest minds have gathered to conclude that time perception is... logarithmic? 🧐 Meanwhile, this groundbreaking discovery is protected by an impenetrable fortress called #ModSecurity, which grants you the privilege of knowing you're not allowed to know. 🙃💡
http://www.kafalas.com/Logtime.html #BreakingNews #TimePerception #Logarithmic #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated