How nature can alter our sense of time

By Ruth Ogden, Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
Jessica Thompson, PhD candidate in Environment and wellbeing, University of Salford

Do you ever get that feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? That time is somehow racing away from you, and it is impossible to fit everything in. But then, you step outside into the countryside and suddenly everything seems slower, more relaxed, like time has somehow changed.

It’s not just you - recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time.

For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don’t have…

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