The Hours, Days, and Minutes of your Life

There is a reason they refer to the “endless days of childhood”.

They say time seems to move faster as you get older. You may remember childhood days seeming to last forever. Time, when viewed through the gauzy veil of memories is untrustworthy. Some things seem to take forever, like meetings at work, or doing your taxes. Clock time becomes irrelevant when I am in a flow state-reading a good book, for example.

Mind time and clock time are two different things. You know very well that people experience clock time and mind time differently because you know that one person who is always late. Probably, they can’t help it. They just experience time differently from you, and you notice that.

See this article, which discusses mind time, and clock time:

Physics explains why time passes faster as you age

Physicists do not even totally agree that time’s arrow is pointed forward. The movie “Momentum” looked at clock time moving backwards. That is a useful thought experiment, where cause, effect, and time, are backwards.

Dream time is separate from clock time too. Your dreaming sleep units might last minutes only, but the “story” happening in the dream…