You’re a Superhero: Your Brain Can Manipulate Time

Erman Misirlisoy, PhD
4 min readAug 16, 2018
Photo by Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash

Have you ever felt time moving faster or slower than usual? For most of us, there is one obvious example of this, and we describe it with the phrase “time flies when you’re having fun”. You probably first noticed this effect back at school: in a boring class, time would pass slowly enough to drive you insane, but out in the playground, 1 hour lunch breaks would feel more like 20 minutes. It’s another…

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Erman Misirlisoy, PhD

Research Leader (Ex-Instagram / Chief Scientist at multiple startups). Author of the User Insight Newsletter: https://userinsight.substack.com/