For example how come I can be playing a video game and it seems to me time as sped up? Or how about someone in prison or jail and it appears to them that time has slowed? And other. Both groups know its not as speed up or down but just seems that way? Why is this?
Ooh! This is another thing I’m interested in! Our perception of time changes when we’re in flow-states of activity. Flow states occur when you have built a level of practice at a complex task to where you can do it almost reflexively.
Video games are often designed to induce mental flow-states. Tasks requiring high levels of prolonged physical concentration are the same. But confined conditions have the side effect of preventing them, even though they’re not designed with them in mind.