{"id":194053,"date":"2024-08-05T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/times-secrets-unveiled-study-challenges-how-we-perceive-time"},"modified":"2024-08-05T06:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:22:55","slug":"times-secrets-unveiled-study-challenges-how-we-perceive-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/times-secrets-unveiled-study-challenges-how-we-perceive-time","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s Secrets Unveiled: Study Challenges How We Perceive Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/times-secrets-unveiled-study-challenges-how-we-perceive-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Our brain measures time by counting experiences, not by following a strict chronological order.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A new study by a team of UNLV researchers suggests that there\u2019s a lot of truth to the trope \u201ctime flies when you\u2019re having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their study, recently published in the journal <i>Current Biology<\/i>, the researchers discovered that our perception of time is based on the number of experiences we have, not on an internal clock. Additionally, they found that increasing speed or output during an activity appears to affect how our brains perceive time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain measures time by counting experiences, not by following a strict chronological order. A new study by a team of UNLV researchers suggests that there\u2019s a lot of truth to the trope \u201ctime flies when you\u2019re having fun.\u201d In their study, recently published in the journal Current Biology, the researchers discovered that our perception [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}