This is only a theory I have, that time has many different textures, which allows ones perception to differ from another’s. So how does this relate to scale and perspective? When a painter paints a landscape on a flat plane there is no information for the brain to decipher the space and therefore the artist must show cues of scale and perspective to explain how a two dimensional image has a three-dimensional space. In reality we see a scene and our brains realize by the differences and the fact that we are used to living in a three-dimensional world that there is depth and space ahead of us but on the canvas we don’t have that privilege. In California I visited a cave that distorts this reality, it is the moaning cavern and is California’s largest public cave chamber, you look up from the bottom and would think the space is twenty feet and yet the height of the statue of liberty could be fit in the space, this is because there is no markers to allow the brain to decipher the space and allow the brain to explain its scale.

So how does a cave and painting have to do with time, I think this is the same process. I have always thought the reason a night seems to fly by is because the brain has no way to decipher the distance of time and therefore it seems that it does not exist much like the space that we try to decipher, the space of time must be measured by the feeling of its space. If you do one thing all day it seems that the day passes by, even though through the function of that period, it may seem to drag on. It is because after the fact the brain has no way of scale for the passing of time, in contrast if you do many short periods of activity during a day the brain has the scale of multiple periods of time and therefore it seems the space of time has been stretched longer.

I strongly believe that if the brain is given cues to describe time as many different short streams the brain can fathom hours and days that seem long as opposed to how quickly time seems to fly. The reason I think time goes faster as we get older is because we don’t see and hang on to the details of day-to-day like we do when we are very young. Routine and taking the things we see for granted allows time to pass without the awe and wonder of seeing things for the first time. I am experimenting with filling my life up with as many experiences and bits of time to enjoy the scale of life well lived and as much as I can possibly envision in the shortest amount of time, I will keep you up to date with progress.

So how do you measure time and have you experienced differences in the feeling of short and long periods of time-explain how it feels different by the difference in activities.