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Why subjective time experience varies with emotional states

My commute takes the same time every day but feels longer when I am dreading work and shorter when I am excited, like emotions bend time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Inner landscape shapes temporal perception more than clock measurements, revealing time's malleable nature.

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