No, it’s not a way to manipulate time in general, it’s just your perception of time that slows down. A new study found that trying to conceal something can alter your perception of time. The study, which appeared in Biological Psychology, wanted to find how time is perceived during lying:
In line with previous research, the researchers observed stronger physiological arousal when a concealed item was presented on the screen. They also found that the display of all items in the guilty condition was perceived as longer than that in the innocent condition. Response times were also longer in the guilty condition than in the innocent condition.
“When you are concealing something, you will feel that time passes more slowly than usual, because you are in an aroused and highly vigilant state. Not only the very thing to be concealed but also other items are perceived as lasting longer than usual during this state,” Matsuda and Nittono told PsyPost.
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Hm, sounds legit, even a bit unsurprising... Time flies having fun. If the funny time flies are gone, the ucomfortalbe time slugs kick in, and if you have something to hide, i assme you feel uncomfortalbe, and therefore there are no time flies but the ucomfortalbe slugs come creeping...
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LOL to the above comment
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I must be trying to conceal the fact that I'm bored. It really doesn't work, so I'm telling everyone.
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