Do you remember these expressions:
- killing time;
- only time will tell;
- time flies when you’re having fun (eg, my 2025 blog);
- time is on my side;
- waiting takes forever (eg, in queues).
Hence, my blog title time feels disproportionate:
The feeling that time is disproportionate—meaning it passes at a rate inconsistent with the clock—is a common human experience driven by psychology, memory, and emotion rather than physics. This phenomenon is often described through the lens of aging, where a year feels shorter as we get older because it becomes a smaller percentage of our total life, according to the Relative Proportional Experience theory.
Source: Google AI Overview
There’s another perspective:
- the Past feels disproportionate and either (very) fast or (very) slow;
- the Present feels proportionate (a.k.a. clockwise);
- the Future feels opaque.
Google AI Overview mentions the following “Summary of Causes”:
- Memory Structure: Childhood feels long because everything is new and memories are dense; adulthood feels fast due to repetition.
- Biological/Neurochemical: High body temperature (fever) can speed up internal clocks, while stimulants like caffeine can cause overestimation of time intervals.
- Value of Time: As income increases, time becomes more valuable, creating a perception of greater scarcity and urgency, says Nautilus.
My body feels its ageing of 66 years. Inside my mind, I can look ahead for hundreds or even thousands of years. My soul might even be eternal although even the Sumerian civilisation had no idea about the future of the zaqīqu.
I suppose looking ahead – or back – is possible if and when we filter out the nuisance (eg, the 7 Belief systems) and only focus on the 3 dimensions of Life, being Love, Knowledge & Power.
Time is an invention by the Sumerian civilisation that existed from about 240,000 BC – 1800 BC. Our notion of time is derived from Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Hence, every planet has different times.
A universal time might be an illusion.
“Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.”
A quote by Abhijit Naskar from Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost (2016)
Time / Clock of the Heart (1982) by Culture Club
band, lyrics, video, Wiki-band, Wiki-song
[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, in time, it could have been so much more
The time is precious, I know
In time, it could have been so much more
The time has nothing to show
Note: all markings (bold, italic, underlining) by LO unless in quotes or stated otherwise
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