Illusions of Time

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Published 2021-01-08
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SOURCES:

1896 snowball fight: twitter.com/joaquimcampa/status/131139161542509363…

Prospective and retrospective timing:
YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE by Dean Buonomano: www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Time-Machine-Neuroscienc…

ISOLATION - Mind Field:    • Isolation - Mind Field (Ep 1)  
(every episode of Mind Field is free to watch on YouTube!)

speed of time as we age:
FELT TIME by Marc Wittmann: www.amazon.com/Felt-Time-Science-Experience-Press/…

"Age effects in perception of time": pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512313/

Olēka:    • Olēka: The Awareness of How Few Days ...  

periodization: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization

WaitButWhy article about The Lion King: waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/its-2020-and-youre-in-the-f…

Barbara Walters for scale subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/BarbaraWalters4Scale

Barbara Walter world history image: www.reddit.com/r/UnitsOfX/comments/bwma7g/oc_world…

Examples of facts that challenge our chronological illusions:
canyouactually.com/23-mind-bending-facts-about-tim…
www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/14-facts-about…

My "Narrow Slice" video:    • Our Narrow Slice  

construal level theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory

Sonder:    • Sonder: The Realization That Everyone...  

Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com:    • "Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com  

Early smile image: www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-beh…

2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World - 1987:    • 2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World - ...  
and: mrsitcom.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-story-of-7-11-vi…

Great subreddit for candid video: www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo/

New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape:    • New York City in 1993 in HD -  DTheat...  

"Historical consciousness: the enigma of different paradigms": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2019…

Zachary Sayre Schiffman's THE BIRTH OF THE PAST: www.amazon.com/Birth-Past-Zachary-S-Schiffman/dp/1…

Hartmut Rosa's SOCIAL ACCELERATION: www.amazon.com/Social-Acceleration-Modernity-Direc…

History of twitter UI: twirpz.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/the-history-of-twi…

Effect of roads: iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/

Talking With Attenborough Vsauce video:    • Talking With Attenborough  

archive footage from archive.org and shutterstock

MRI clips are of my brain as taken by the Stark lab featured in this Mind field episode:    • Your Brain on Tech  

-MUSIC (in order of first appearance)-

"glitch" audionetwork
"sweet revival" audionetwork
"passage of time" audionetwork
"desert witch" audionetwork
"facing south" audionetwork
"broadway dawn" audionetwork
"final breath" audionetwork
"tribeca" audionetwork
"carlin dream" Jake Chudnow
"martinique" audionetwork
"lazy daze" audionetwork
"imaginary sun w less voices" Jake Chudnow
"why so blue" audionetwork
"for leah" Jake Chudnow
"shona" Jake Chudnow
"moon men" Jake Chudnow
"crypt" audionetwork
"eclectica" audionetwork
"banjo ascension" audionetwork
"heat and dust" audionetwork
"twisted trip" audionetwork

'cats in pot' sweatshirt from www.babycatsofca.com/shop/cats-in-pot-sweatshirt
sweatshirt worn at the very end was designed by Martcellia Liunic www.liunic.com/

All Comments (21)
  • @brocknelson5521
    Imagine being his daughter and asking a question about life
  • @nitromiyazaki
    I appreciate the fact that this man spent literally 130 days to make a joke that lasted 10 seconds.
  • @staainless
    False, Michael was never born. He just “appeared” one day fully dressed with a fully-grown beard
  • @MrStuff-xd3mt
    Plot Twist: This video took so long to upload because he had to grow his beard back.
  • @NotroLPS
    14:52 I heard this story somewhere on the internet of a young person, who I think worked at some kind of retirement home, who was talking to a very elderly woman. The old woman asked the poster something like “do adults tell you about time before the internet, and how it’s dangerous? And how they didn’t have it back in their day?” The original poster, of course, responded yes. The old lady then responded with “that’s what my parents told me about electricity.” That may be my favourite example of these “illusions of time”. Me, writing this message on a computer that can fit in my pocket, could talk to someone who didn’t even have lightbulbs as a child.
  • @qqypuzrw
    "Make some time for time to control you. Be bored, miss out, fall behind, lost track of time. While experiencing only what your body can alone. You might not have the time of your life, but you'll have more time of your life." this one really hit me
  • @landronsc
    That picture of the man smiling with the bowl of rice is now one of my favorite pictures ever. Idk why it brings me so much joy
  • @ttocsfitz
    This is the Pinnacle of VSauce. Rewatch was even better. Michael, are you a philosopher poet? The team around you must also be amazing. Massive contributions to our time through your brilliant videos over the years. Wishing you the very best!
  • @Pleiades00
    Everybody gangsta ‘til Michael invents his own scientific terms
  • My brain automatically read "1 year ago" I had to do a double take to realise this came out yesterday
  • @name1883
    growing up with no tv is way more weird than growing up without phones
  • @Popcannyo
    Hearing that the people of the past, viewed the past as passed and not a thing seems like a better way to live
  • @Marcelishim
    It’s funny because I was like “damn, 2016 was 5 years ago”
  • @kingmatthme
    My three-year-old sister once said on a long car ride, “I’m going to fall asleep so that the car ride goes faster for us.”
  • I spent 6 months in isolation 14 years ago and I don't feel like I ever got out of it
  • @JohnMushitu
    And when the world needed him most, he came back....