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Iamdepressed
11/01/23 8:43:24 PM
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6 months went by and I still feel like it was yesterday. I feel myself getting older with nothing to show for. It's the same monotonous cycle: work, eat, fap, sleep. I think I've become complacent where my mind is automatically going through the day on default mode. Before I realize much of anything, the day is over and I'm going back home to repeat the same thing the next day.

Is there anyway I can slow down my perception of time so that I can go to work and have enough time to ponder about life, universe and everything else? Everything is moving so fast.
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indica
11/01/23 8:45:30 PM
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mindfulness practices and meditation

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hexa
11/01/23 8:46:24 PM
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aren't you earning money? Eventually you will leave your job, and have a lot of money to spend on vacations, college classes, and philosophy books
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Iamdepressed
11/01/23 8:47:08 PM
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indica posted...
mindfulness practices and meditation
So by being mindful, do you mean counting the seconds in my head so that I'm "mindful" of the time? I can see how counting to 60 seconds could make me feel like the minute was much longer.
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Nukazie
11/01/23 8:47:42 PM
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dont do anything

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MabusIncarnate
11/01/23 8:47:42 PM
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Acid makes an hour feel like 10

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DementedDurian
11/01/23 8:47:43 PM
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r e a d t h i s s t a t e m e n t

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Iamdepressed
11/01/23 8:48:30 PM
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hexa posted...
aren't you earning money? Eventually you will leave your job, and have a lot of money to spend on vacations, college classes, and philosophy books
Retirement is a reminder that your next step in life is death. Oh gawd, I want to enjoy this period of time much longer then.
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Scardude
11/02/23 11:11:40 AM
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The act of learning something new will slow it down. If you are in need of something to do. Don't watch TV. Try a skill, learn about history. Go back to school. Anything that forces the brain to work. Time for me always feels slow because of it.

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TMOG
11/02/23 11:13:29 AM
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fbplayer1064
11/02/23 11:13:59 AM
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Nothing you can do. As your brain ages everything moves a tiny bit slower, which creates the perception of time moving faster.
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royic
11/02/23 11:14:18 AM
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Your brain does not bother to remember routine. Your first experience with this phenomenon is probably getting in your car to go somewhere as a teenager and arriving without really remembering how you got there. If you turn your entire life into something as routine as driving to work, your brain will tune all of it out.

To slow your perception of time you must keep hunting down new experiences.

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Cocytus
11/02/23 11:17:12 AM
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Do things slower

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Uta
11/02/23 11:21:04 AM
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royic posted...
Your brain does not bother to remember routine. Your first experience with this phenomenon is probably getting in your car to go somewhere as a teenager and arriving without really remembering how you got there. If you turn your entire life into something as routine as driving to work, your brain will tune all of it out.

To slow your perception of time you must keep hunting down new experiences.

Scardude posted...
The act of learning something new will slow it down. If you are in need of something to do. Don't watch TV. Try a skill, learn about history. Go back to school. Anything that forces the brain to work. Time for me always feels slow because of it.


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pedro45
11/02/23 11:24:32 AM
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So that is why reading slows down time.
This is good advice. I'm so complacent but never thought too seriously about it. Time just flies by, especially at around 22.

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Smackems
11/02/23 11:25:59 AM
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Be a caregiver

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pedro45
11/02/23 11:50:47 AM
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Now a contradiction just popped in my head. There's lots of times something new actually speeds up my day cause it's new and fun.
My mornings are sort of the slowest. then afternoons creep up and all of a sudden I'm cooking for dinner. After dinner, there's only so much I can do before the day is done and then it's all over. Work days there's even less time

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SilvosForever
11/02/23 11:51:56 AM
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You want the day to drag on? Look at the clock more often.

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pedro45
11/02/23 12:46:27 PM
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Have you ever seen those clocks with the smooth second hand? That makes time seem to fly by.
Sometimes staring at a clock can work, but then i start to panic about when i should do what and then time flies by.
I feel like I'm doing something every half hour at home and especially at work.

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ai123
11/02/23 12:52:57 PM
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If you don't do much, or have the same routine, time seems to pass slower at the time. But it will go quickly in retrospect because all the days just blur into one: you will not feel as if you have done very much over a long time period.

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Iamdepressed
11/02/23 10:53:22 PM
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ai123 posted...
If you don't do much, or have the same routine, time seems to pass slower at the time. But it will go quickly in retrospect because all the days just blur into one: you will not feel as if you have done very much over a long time period.
So if I stay glued to the television screen for 12 hours a day, 365 days a year, will I think that the year went by slower or will it go by quickly in retrospect because it's now lumped into one blur?
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