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It is one of the most obvious symptoms, I feel. The way you no longer perceive time like you used to.

I wonder how is everyone's experience with that?

For me, it majorly is in how I'd look at time, and let's say it's 10 pm, two hours later it is still 10 pm in my head. I could not feel the passage of time for the most part. I'm stuck somewhere. (don't you hate how metaphorical dpdr can sound but it is not at all?)

A lot of times too, it is like I've already experienced the future with certain type of things, like if I have finals it feels like I've already gone through them all, and in a way... I'm rewatching them.. somehow.. can't quite comprehend that it has not quite happened yet in my head it has.. I think deeply that is in the fact that is I'm not much rooted in the presence?

Where with other things and generally, I struggle with processing the notion of future.

What about you?
 

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i feel time is very fluid somehow, its been so long i dont remember how time used to be. i can be lying in bed at night thinking that the day lasted too long, but, at the same time, that it happened fast.
or, when i wake up, i have doubts if the things that occurred the day before really happened.

also, i dont like thinking about the future, unless its about tomorrow or a few hours into the future, its weird.
 
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so it is with time. When I was young, one summer would fill several years of my adult life. I took a 2 week vacation to the interior of Alaska and cruised the Inside Passage. I saw so many new things

that my 2 weeks seemed more like 2 months. When in severe anxiety and suffering from insomnia, a few minutes can seem like an hour. 4 hours can seem like a week. Time is part of the space time continuum. It is subject to perception.

But, it is a constant. You are the variable..
 

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I read pretty recently that humans perceive to through experience. As in we equate how long ago things were based on what we went through at that time, and since our subjectivity/experience/perception is kinda of skewed it makes sense our perception of time also is
 

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i feel time is very fluid somehow, its been so long i dont remember how time used to be. i can be lying in bed at night thinking that the day lasted too long, but, at the same time, that it happened fast.
or, when i wake up, i have doubts if the things that occurred the day before really happened.

also, i dont like thinking about the future, unless its about tomorrow or a few hours into the future, its weird.
I feel like we spend so much in inner time rather being present within the external time due to dissociation

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so it is with time. When I was young, one summer would fill several years of my adult life. I took a 2 week vacation to the interior of Alaska and cruised the Inside Passage. I saw so many new things

that my 2 weeks seemed more like 2 months. When in severe anxiety and suffering from insomnia, a few minutes can seem like an hour. 4 hours can seem like a week. Time is part of the space time continuum. It is subject to perception.

But, it is a constant. You are the variable..
Objectively speaking, it does exist.

It is just this lacking, distant perception of it.

It doesn't sync anymore with my subjective experience of everyday personally.

I read pretty recently that humans perceive to through experience. As in we equate how long ago things were based on what we went through at that time, and since our subjectivity/experience/perception is kinda of skewed it makes sense our perception of time also is
interesting. makes sense indeed.
 
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