I'm not really trying to get at anything but I've just made an observation over the years. It seems when I glance at a digital clock with a "00:00:00" setup, the second it's on initally seems to last longer than one would expect it to and once it flips to the next second it seems to go by faster.

For example I'll look at 14:44:37 on my watch and the 37 seems to sit at 37 for what seems longer than an actuall second. Then it will hit 38 and then 39 etc in a manor that seems faster than the time it took to change from 37 to 38.

Thoughts?

I totally know what you mean.

I used to be bored at school after taking tests or something. I would look at the clock and the second hand would do exatcly what you just explained. On some occasions I would even see the hand go backwards as soon as I glanced at it, then start going forwards. I think this has something to do with the whole time being relative concept.

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Damn this happens to me too! Althought I doubt there is a 'supernatural' reasoning behind it, it's most likely just a trick of the brain.

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And yes, I've noticed what op has described too, but with analog clocks as well. I've seen one "second" take what seemed like three seconds before clicking into the next one.

If I'm in a high adrenaline rush or someone's swinging at me, things seem to slow down. I also smoked a lot of weed one day, theorized that time is in fact a solid spatial dimension that doesn't "move" and that it is only our observation of time that appears as if it is "moving". Then time stopped for what felt like a few seconds and a few eternity at once.

Then I got paranoid and didn't want to fuck up my timeline or some shit, so I quit exploring it, but I think it's time (pun not intended) I start exploring this again.

Whew! At least now I know I'm not delusional.

That is freaky shit.

You know on Gran Turismo how you have to beat the clock to pass the licence tests? I used the force and paused the clock, and just made it.

Fuck, it was so intense that I was sweating.

I think that time is pera perception thing. If you watch it the first second will be faster than the second after that. My guess is that it is the mind adapting to what is around it.

Deepak Chopra addressed this issue on one of his books. I think it was "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind."

if we can stop time...what do you think jesus can do

I KNEW I wasn't the only one who saw the hand go backwards.

i think its because when you look at a clock, the second seems longer because your brain is processing more.

you see, oh, its 1:21:34, i didn't know that.

that is harder to compute than

1:21:34, here comes :35, then :36. .....

Thats what I was about to say.
Same reason why everything feels so slow on LSD, because your brain is constantly going "holy shit! holy shit! information! process process process!"
Ever play DoTA on acid? Respawn times feel like a life age of the earth.

LSD makes things seem to go by quickly but when you look at the time, you're shocked to see only half the time you thought passed has actually gone by.

I think it means theres more 'forces' acting around us and on us, than meats the eye.

Yea i used to do that all the time when bored! see if i could make time go backwards for a second..

freaky shit

I notice this all the time. I don't have a fancy explanation for it though. I'm just amused that I can make a second hand stop :-)

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I guess you only just got it then, huh.

A lot of what the human mind and eyes see aren't used in every day times. This is a small part of it, but as you get deeper into the art of time and space you'll start to understand how to see more and more of everything.

The spaces between a moment are moments unknown no longer. :D

It's an optical illusion; It takes your brain a moment to comprehend what you're looking at, so it seems like it stands still.

Perception of time is individual, isn't it?

Aside from that, have you ever heard the term "a watched pot never boils" (or other similar terms)? Time appears to be slower when you observe it and focus on it.


EDIT: (Taken from Wikipedia article on Time.)

"Even in the presence of timepieces, different individuals may judge an identical length of time to be passing at different rates. Commonly, this is referred to as time seeming to "fly" (a period of time seeming to pass faster than possible) or time seeming to "drag" (a period of time seeming to pass slower than possible). The psychologist Jean Piaget called this form of time perception "lived time." "