Response to Abby Hegarty’s “autobio of temporal experience”

I found your argument concerning our differing perceptions of time a very interesting and relatable topic. I feel that every single person has different perceptions that are profoundly affected by one’s own emotions and experiences. For example, in your Microeconomics class, there may be an avid student who has a gravitation towards such concepts that may be experiencing his or her perception of time in a way different from you or anyone else. Maybe he is so interested in the content that those fifty minutes seem to have flown by in an instant, while your perception may have made the class seem slower than ever. I encounter phenomena like this almost every day – though I may not always notice it. Our subjective time constantly fluctuates as the hours, or rather our perceptions thereof, pass. This remarkable concept never fails to keep me interested in the nature of time.