Why flying time during the holiday fun
Why flying time during the holiday fun
The time seems faster than usual when we are on holiday.
But once back to break your daily routine suddenly seems like a long life, say psychologists.
The newspaper said they believe the effect is due to the different methods the brain uses to judge the passage of time. Can learn to deal with our perception of time to make our lives feel more complete and reassure those who feel that the years of slipping faster as they grow.
And explains the secret behind the "paradox of the holiday," the invitation in the presentation by the psychologist and the BBC television Claudia Hammond at the British Psychological Society in London last week.
Said Hammond, who was his time and will be published distorted next month, so when we do something new and interesting - for example, when we are on vacation - time seems faster than when we are bored or anxious.
He said but when I look back, and is based on our assessment of the time on a number of new individual memories that have accumulated during that period.
In half the normal average person accumulates only 6-9 new memories, because most of what we do is routine.
But on a holiday that can accumulate this amount of memory in a single day, because everything we experience is new, which means that when we look back and it seems to have lasted for a longer period than it was in fact






