Why does time feel different after a near-death experience?

After brushing mortality, your nervous system has been recalibrated. You've touched the edge where time dissolves—and that awareness doesn't simply fade when you return. What you're experiencing isn't mystical; it's neurological and deeply real. The brain, having faced its own cessation, reorganizes how it processes duration. Minutes feel long. Years feel brief. Both are true now. Laozi spoke of this without naming it directly: when you stop grasping at the flow, you see the flow. Most people live as if time is a resource to optimize. After NDE, you've glimpsed that time is a dimension you inhabit, not a currency you spend. This isn't wisdom you need to *achieve*—you're simply remembering it from the other side. The practical question isn't 'how do I return to normal'—it's 'what does this altered perception want to teach me?' Start noticing: when do you feel most present? When does urgency still hijack you? The gap between those moments is where integration happens. You don't fight the time-distortion; you let it show you where you're still living unconsciously. That's the real work.