High School Time Perception: Is It Different from Time Dilation?

[TheQuestionGuy14]

What is time perception? Is it the same as time dilation? Can one person perceive time going slower than someone else? Like, there was a study about Dreams and how counting 10 seconds in a dream is actually around 12 seconds in real waking life, what causes this? How is time perceived slower in a dream? Is it time dilation? I'm just confused.

 

[Dale]

No, time perception is a psychological/biological phenomenon. The human brain is a rather poor functioning clock, very unstable and inaccurate. Time perception is just the inaccuracy of that clock, completely unrelated to relativistic time dilation.

 

[TheQuestionGuy14]

No, time perception is a psychological/biological phenomenon. The human brain is a rather poor functioning clock, very unstable and inaccurate. Time perception is just the inaccuracy of that clock, completely unrelated to relativistic time dilation.

Ok, I see. So, when people in the dreams counted to 10, and reality it was 12 seconds, 12 seconds really did go by and they just thought it was 10 seconds?

 

[Dale]

Ok, I see. So, when people in the dreams counted to 10, and reality it was 12 seconds, 12 seconds really did go by and they just thought it was 10 seconds?

Yes, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with time dilation in relativity

 

[TheQuestionGuy14]

Yes, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with time dilation in relativity

Ok, that makes sense. So, we may have an altered perception of time (we may think 12 seconds is 10), but time always passes at the same rate of 1 second per second for everything, whether you're in a dream, or an animals perspective etc? Would I be correct? Unless if it really does involve time dilation?

 

[Dale]

time always passes at the same rate of 1 second per second for everything, whether you're in a dream, or an animals perspective etc?

Yes. This is now getting repetitive. If you have nothing new to ask then we can close the thread.