Perceiving speed of time

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I wondered.. Do anybody else experience time "speed-up's"?
In other words; At times perceiving time as accelerated.

When I experience this everything will be a bit faster. Movement, sound etc.

One of the worst situations in my eyes are when I have this while singing to music in the shower, makes it absolutely impossible to keep up with the music and kills the joy of singing in the shower. That's just torture.

Not in the way you mean it. Like most (everyone?) I notice that it is true that "time flies when you are having fun." On the other hand, I think many people never notice how time seems to slow down when you go into nature without anything to distract you and watch the clouds...
slowly...

.............. drift...


..................across...

........................the...



.....................................sky.

Sometimes when I listen to music I notice a disparity between my introspective and sensory timing. Time appears to move faster or slower depending on which one is taking in or processing more information per unit time. If my introspective is moving slower than my sensory, time appears to move faster; the inverse is also true.

What I usually perceive of as slowing or speeding up of time usually depends on how focused I am, or whether I'm in a flow. It's not just things I enjoy. If I'm concentrating on something that's very difficult and that I don't particularly like, time can seem to go quickly, especially if I feel that I'm under a deadline. All my time on the Internet seems to pass quickly, and therefore I can waste a lot of time online without even realizing it until I stop. I'm sure everyone experiences this. But it may be more pronounced in Aspies because of special interests and an enhanced ability to focus, I suppose.

Time is always fluxtuating in speed. Sometimes things crawl by, and I can stop to analyze every minute detail and dynamic of a falling object, other times times I can hardly keep up with the blur of activity and minutes fly by in what seems seconds. Most people don't know what I'm talking about when I try to talk about this.

Just thought I'd add in case someone misunderstood. I'm not talking about the standard "time flies by" phenomenon but physical time. Speed of objects and sound.

Maby a better example is when you look and listen to a clock and it's speeded up or slowed down.

In my experience it seems to happen when my little brainy friend upstairs is well rested and basicly at it's best. It does not seem to matter if I'm focusing or not.

I havn't experienced this but it's an intriguing topic.

I've actually had the experience of looking at a clock and seeing it move faster--it was a digital clock too. I was kind of freaked out at the time.

I have a terrible understanding of time--and so does my son. We just don't seem to exist in time, or have the same perception of time as a lot of other people.

He will be sitting there on a Saturday, doing stuff until one pm, then he will ask "is today a school day? Do I have to go to school today?" It's like--he's eight--and wouldn't he understand that on a school day he's got to be at school by eight thirty in the morning, as apposed to spending hours playing on the weekend? But he just doesn't understand or experience time like that.

I see myself as having an infinite amount of time before I must leave for work. Though that infinity is getting smaller and smaller....

Much like Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise/the dichotomy paradox

I've had experiences where I listen to the music on my iPhone that I always listen to and the same song will sound faster than the previous time that I listened to that particular song. This may just be my mind becoming more and more familiar with the song and simply perceiving it to be played at a faster speed, though there's been one or two instances where the song actually sounds slower than usual.

My sense of time has always been a bit inconsistent--some seconds feel like hours, some hours feel like seconds, and, plenty of the time, my mind is making no connection between my experience and how much time has passed.

I normally have a very good timing, primarily because I perceive it through event ... like watching a movie (which on average is 2 hours) or watching a sit com which is (22 min). When somebody asks me what time it is I can usually tell it to 15 mins accuracy. Despite having looked a the clock 4 hours earlier.

My time perception is 100% based on a cognitive ability, I have to concentrate about it, to exists in the 4th dimension like everybody else. The fact that I do so becomes quite evident, when I have some alcohol, because my cognitive abilities get less power time does seem to slow down.

Smoking weed is a whole different ballgame. I only exists in my brain when I do so and my math ablity and reasoning is through the roof, but time ceases to exists totally. I look at the clock 5 minutes apart and still get stress because time at all has passed. And while remembering that 5 min has passed since last time I look my brain doesn't register it at all, it might as well have been 5 hours. I only smoke it when I don't have anything to do the day after, because if I do I get extremely stressed ... because my brain cannot understand the difference of having 12 hours to sleep or only 2 hours.

I think I understand this feeling also.
Like a clock seems to go faster or slower than you remember? But it's still a little vague for me. I think I'll watch out for it from now on.

I also notice feeling time differently after smoking, especially if I'm really enjoying myself. (usually listening to music like Zappa, Gentle Giant)

I have been thinking recently that time is not nearly as important as order.
Like if you look back on the past 6 months, do you remember those days where you relaxed and did nothing, or do you remember every toilet break?
I only remember the things that matter, and one seems to tie into the next. Like watching a movie.

It's almost as if we put our energy into the experiences that make a difference in our lives, and the rest of time we spend waiting for the next one to happen.