SCIENCE

Illusions of Time

Vsauce | February 4, 2025

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SOURCES:

1896 snowball fight: https://twitter.com/joaquimcampa/status/1311391615425093634?lang=en

Prospective and retrospective timing:
YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE by Dean Buonomano: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Time-Machine-Neuroscience/dp/0393355608/

ISOLATION – Mind Field: https://youtu.be/iqKdEhx-dD4
(every episode of Mind Field is free to watch on YouTube!)

speed of time as we age:
FELT TIME by Marc Wittmann: https://www.amazon.com/Felt-Time-Science-Experience-Press/dp/0262533545/

“Age effects in perception of time”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512313/

Olēka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FKsCK6Vfuk

periodization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization

WaitButWhy article about The Lion King: https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/its-2020-and-youre-in-the-future.html

Barbara Walters for scale subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BarbaraWalters4Scale

Barbara Walter world history image: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnitsOfX/comments/bwma7g/oc_world_history_in_units_of_barbara_walters/

Examples of facts that challenge our chronological illusions:
https://canyouactually.com/23-mind-bending-facts-about-time-that-will-change-your-perception-of-history-forever/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/14-facts-about-time-and-history-thatll-totally-bl

My “Narrow Slice” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNLdblFQqsw

construal level theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory

Sonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4

Pipe Dream” – Animusic.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCIpKAIFyo

Early smile image: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-behind-photo-happiest-man-china/

2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World – 1987: https://youtu.be/RYbe-35_BaA
and: http://mrsitcom.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-story-of-7-11-video-shot-at-230am.html

Great subreddit for candid video: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo/

New York City in 1993 in HD – DTheater DVHS Demo Tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

“Historical consciousness: the enigma of different paradigms”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2019.1652937

Zachary Sayre Schiffman’s THE BIRTH OF THE PAST: https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Past-Zachary-S-Schiffman/dp/1421422786/

Hartmut Rosa’s SOCIAL ACCELERATION: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Acceleration-Modernity-Directions-Critical/dp/0231148356

History of twitter UI: https://twirpz.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/the-history-of-twitter-in-profile-pages-2006-to-2015/

Effect of roads: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/

Talking With Attenborough Vsauce video: https://youtu.be/OC8_Sjlvxic

archive footage from archive.org and shutterstock

MRI clips are of my brain as taken by the Stark lab featured in this Mind field episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHsAUyFCAM

–MUSIC (in order of first appearance)–

“glitch” audionetwork
“sweet revival” audionetwork
“passage of time” audionetwork
“desert witch” audionetwork
“facing south” audionetwork
“broadway dawn” audionetwork
“final breath” audionetwork
“tribeca” audionetwork
“carlin dream” Jake Chudnow
“martinique” audionetwork
“lazy daze” audionetwork
“imaginary sun w less voices” Jake Chudnow
“why so blue” audionetwork
“for leah” Jake Chudnow
“shona” Jake Chudnow
“moon men” Jake Chudnow
“crypt” audionetwork
“eclectica” audionetwork
“banjo ascension” audionetwork
“heat and dust” audionetwork
“twisted trip” audionetwork