Five Minutes Is Enough To Dream A Lifetime
When you look into the eyes of a person you like, a second before placing your lips on his, time freezes, it seems that everything is slower, that you can dream and not wake up, and later when you remember that moment you have the impression that it has been fleeting.
However, on a day when they communicate bad news to us such as the death of a person, it seems that the seconds are lengthened by several eternities and that time passes thick and very slow before our eyes.
The perception of time
We can say that there is a chronological time and a subjective time that is what we perceive based on what each moment transmits to us. This subjective time supposes that we have a notion of past, present and future and we use it to understand the duration of events and place them at a certain moment.
Our sensitivity in relation to time also influences mental tasks such as thinking about solving a problem, making decisions or planning the future. The psychologist John Wearden, maintains that the perception of time is related to memory and sight.
If you subjectively have the feeling that time passes slowly, you will see more things and remember better. The psychologist Hudson Hoagland observed as early as 1920 that the perception of time was related to body temperature.
Hoagland’s wife was ill and had a fever, he went out for a moment and his wife realized that it had taken a long time to return. So Hoagland made him count 60 seconds each day and realized that the more fever he had, the faster he counted, that is, when the temperature increased his internal clock went faster.
A new experience activates our neurons
Neuroscientist David. M Eagleman specializes in the study of phenomena related to the perception of time by the human brain. He performed several MRIs and concluded that when an experience is new or surprising, the activity of our neurons to register it increases.
This phenomenon is due to the fact that we pay more attention and keep the details in our memory, which in the cases of new experiences is more dense. When we remember a new experience, it seems to us that it lasted much longer.
Slow down the time to dream
We cannot stop time, but we can make the most of every second, be aware of every moment and feel alive. Everything that happens around us, whether good or bad, teaches us something and if we stop for a moment we can learn and remember the lesson.
The seconds, hours, days, weeks, months and years pass relentlessly and we can stop them. What we can do is help our brain to slow down the passage of time and allow us to dream. Here are some ways to do it:
Never stop learning. Having the curiosity of a child, exploring the world, asking ourselves questions, reading, will allow us to activate our brain and our memory and we will have the feeling that time passes more slowly.
Discover new places. Visiting new places, getting out of your routine, traveling and getting to know the world, will open your mind and put your brain to work, which will save all that travel information and convey that time passes more slowly.
Dare to meet other people. We always move in the same circles of people and create a routine. Friends, relatives, acquaintances, co-workers are usually always the same. Get out there and talk to new people, let them discover you and dare to meet them.
Follow your heart and your intuition. Many times we stop to overthink to make decisions without realizing that the more options we have, the more confused we can become. Follow your heart and your intuition, learn to be spontaneous, to dream and enjoy every moment.
You can dream a whole life in one minute and make that minute go on and on in thousands of moments. It is possible to remember a moment and remain in our memory to feel how it smelled, how our heart beat or who was with us.
