What It Feels like to Be Stuck in a Time Warp Between 2021 and 2020
You might be feeling this right now.
This idea is extremely weird. But I woke up yesterday feeling like I was stuck in a time warp between 2021 and 2020.
The feeling is odd. It makes you question your life. It forces you to question consciousness. I even had another peculiar thought: Am I stuck in a video game controlled by a being from another planet? Who knows.
It turns out I’m not going crazy. A neuroscientist and researcher from UCLA, Dean Buonomano, who studies time, provides an explanation:
Time is incredibly important because, in many ways, the brain’s most important functions are to predict the future.
Because the degree to which an animal predicts where there’s going to be food or where there is going to be a predator or where there’s going to be water or where it’s going to find a mate determines the success of that animal.
The brain is a prediction device.
2020 has made the future hard to predict, hence your perception of time has been thrown off.
Retrospective time is not so much about time, but about memory, about items in memory.
So if you had a month in which you didn’t have that many new…
