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Why is time going so fast and how do I slow it down?

By Hinze Hogendoorn, Professor, Visual Time Perception, Queensland University of Technology

How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees?

To understand why our perception of time seems to bend and warp, we need to dig into how our brains tell time in the first place.

The term “time perception” is actually a bit of a misnomer, because time itself isn’t “out there” to be perceived.

When we perceive a colour, a sound, a flavour…

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