Remember how summer vacation felt endless when you were a kid? Three months seemed like an eternity filled with countless adventures and experiences. Now entire years pass in what feels like weeks.

Time perception, the perceived temporal order of events, is subjective and malleable. It can be affected by several factors, including sensory information, and our emotional and attentional states.

As you read this, the screen is probably flashing over 240 times per second, yet, as a human, you won’t notice this ...