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The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis

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55 points rzk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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esafak ◴[22 Oct 25 16:47 UTC] No.45671824[source]▶
If nothing is going on in your life, it is as the article says. However, if you experience novel and memorable stimuli, good or bad, time dilates. Traumatic experiences are particularly memorable because the brain wants to make sure you learn your lesson. It is a consequence of the brain's compressive learning algorithm, discarding the familiar and making sense of the new.
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quentindanjou ◴[22 Oct 25 18:36 UTC] No.45673328[source]▶
> Traumatic experiences are particularly memorable because the brain wants to make sure you learn your lesson.

Weird, I have always been told that when the brain is functioning "normaly" (outside of disorders/syndromes, such as PTSD) that it has a tendency to forget bad things, to help us get over traumatic experiences.

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1. withinboredom ◴[22 Oct 25 20:37 UTC] No.45674835[source]▶
I don't think they mean literally traumatic, but more like a bad breakup, or falling out of a tree. You survive -- maybe barely -- but its no more traumatic than a scrape or a bump. I still remember the first "major" injury I have (from jumping off a the top of a car at 4 years old). Not like it was yesterday -- no PTSD there -- but it was the first time I scraped my knee. I'll probably never jump off a car again.