Comments on: You’re having fun when time flies

By: Jason R

Jason R — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:37 +0000

I wonder if Siffre is schizoid. They enjoy being alone more than being around people.

By: becca

becca — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:41:36 +0000

That’s awesome. I always wondered why I play my looking-at-the-clock game while working out (basically, I’ll listen to music and count the number of songs to have an idea of how long has passed, but always low-ball the estimate. I’ll try to keep from looking at the clock until X amount of time has passed, and I usually make it longer and find the whole thing motivating somehow).

By: chezjake

chezjake — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:32:43 +0000

“Time’s fun when you’re having flies.”
- The Bullfrog King

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:12:03 +0000

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.”
-A. Einstein

By: stripey_cat

stripey_cat — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:25:33 +0000

In my very limited personal experience of caves, if you like it, it can be very soothing and meditative to be down there in the dark on your own in total silence and still air.

By: scarshapedstar

scarshapedstar — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:26:22 +0000

Yeah, what’s that about? I guess he was having a hell of a lot of fun, all alone in a dark cave?

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:02:27 +0000

Michel Siffre’s result suggests, on its face, the opposite. He should have emerged after 25 days feeling as if 59 days had passed.

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:07:37 +0000

What about those of us who, quite literally, have NO sense of time whatsoever?

By: R.

R. — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:25:57 +0000

How does consuming caffeine make time appear to go faster?

By: kathy Orlinsky

kathy Orlinsky — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:21:57 +0000

When I was in grad school, we had a discussion with a circadian rhythm researcher (unfortunately, I can’t recall his name). He ran an experiment with people placed in total isolation for about two days. The volunteers were supposed to do absolutely nothing except eat and sleep so the researchers could monitor their temp., resting cycles and other things. The subjects were kept in completely bare rooms so they wouldn’t have anything to do.
What they found is that the test subjects had written poems on toilet paper using splinters, made chess men out of scraps of foil and lint, etc.
So the researchers didn’t get the data they wanted, but they did find out that it is impossible for human beings to do nothing for two days.
I suspect that the subjects who hit upon a project early on felt the two days go by much sooner than the ones who twiddled their thumbs thinking of something to do.