Now that hockey is over with and I’ve fully absorbed the championship I can move on to other things. Namely the fact that my perception of time seems to be speeding up. Case in point, I can’t believe it was nearly a week ago that I wrote my last post about the Wings winning the cup. That said I’m going to keep this short so that it gets done.

It’ll also be short because I think what I have to say is fairly common sense, namely that the more you think about and have to do, the less time you have for other things. Unfortunately (fortunately?) it feels like it’s doing nothing but speed up lately. Gone are the days when it felt like Friday was an eternity away. Now it’s more like I start worrying about the following Monday on Thursday morning. That’s messed up.

Perhaps a lot of people don’t explicitly think about what all this business about time implies in the more general sense. In many ways I feel it points to just how little we really understand about time as it correlates to consciousness. Not only does the passive experience of time flowing by seem to change pace based on your state of mind, we also actively deal with many different scales of time at once. Or at least people who are any good at planning do.

Music seems to change the way I perceive time quite a bit. I am starting to think that our perception of time is more influenced by the amount and type of information we have to process than how busy we are. Consider the very statement “busy work.” It usually means some set of mundane and time consuming tasks that probably make the unlucky individual feel like time is effectively at a standstill. Just because you’re doing a lot of stuff doesn’t mean you’re really thinking all that much and that’s when time seems to move the quickest.

I guess this wasn’t that short, and I’m not really done so I’ll split it into two parts. More later!