{"id":240451,"date":"2026-07-07T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-approaching-sounds-can-warp-your-perception-of-time"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:19:55","slug":"how-approaching-sounds-can-warp-your-perception-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-approaching-sounds-can-warp-your-perception-of-time","title":{"rendered":"How approaching sounds can warp your perception of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-approaching-sounds-can-warp-your-perception-of-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s perception of time is unique. It is a subjective experience shaped by factors such as age, emotions, memory and environmental contexts. And it may also be influenced by background noise, as scientists have demonstrated in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-026-58785-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown that approaching noise can stretch our perception of time. But in this paper, researchers in Japan discovered that even when people were concentrating on a different sound, moving sounds in the background still changed their sense of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone\u2019s perception of time is unique. It is a subjective experience shaped by factors such as age, emotions, memory and environmental contexts. And it may also be influenced by background noise, as scientists have demonstrated in a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Previous research has shown that approaching noise can stretch 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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240451","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=240451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}