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Why screen time seems to make hours disappear

I let my daughter watch one episode and somehow three hours passed and I cannot figure out where the time went or how to get it back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital media distorts temporal awareness, stealing time in ways that feel both passive and inexplicable.

Ideas that help explain it
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