Dated, January 1, 2016

I've been reading up on the philosophies of time and all the theories the coexist with it. It's really interesting what people are saying about time.

Basically, some people were saying how only things that are in the present (experiences, objects, etc.) are real and that the past and the future aren't real and that is proven by the memories of the past and the expectations of the future.

Time is objective. But in my opinion, the measurement and perception of time is subjective and man-made. Time will keep moving even without a clock.

Don't you know how when you take a nap and you think you've only slept for 5 minutes, it turns out that you have been asleep for 3 hours?

Did time change or did the general notion of it change?

Another thing: you notice how when you want time to fly by fast, it goes by slow. And vise-versa. Why is that?

Based on your thinking, you perception of time is different. So if you are paying attention to time because you want it to go by fast, you're thinking too much about how badly you want the clock to tick faster.

And if you don't want time to go by because you are having fun, then you're not really focusing on the clock, but more about the good time you are having.

I want to read more about these theories and post way more about them, because this is totes interesting.

Lauryn