Do you also feel that days are like years in the context of this epidemic?

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Is life like a year? Looking for the source of the "time filler": "China Youth Daily" Author: Yangmei stays at home for a few days every day, hoping that the economic downturn can pass as soon as possible, and good times are coming soon. This is the mentality that the Chinese have recently experienced. People trapped at home seem to have lived for many years because of the outbreak. So far, although the situation has changed optimistically, the current theme must be strictly conservative. When 1.4 billion people were isolated from each other and voluntarily stopped all social gatherings and public entertainment, all of a sudden, each of us had a lot of extra time. There are hardly any external requirements that consume a lot of our time. We don't need to go to school, we don't even need to go to the office, and we don't need to spend time maintaining work or relationships. However, the fatal thing is that the extra time cannot be stored, only to watch it flow naturally. Therefore, in our psychological reality, time has slowed down. From a psychological perspective, this is the illusion of people's perception of time. The so-called time perception refers to a person's subjective feelings about the passage of time or the duration of an event, and there will be significant differences in different individuals and different environments. "Time perception" reflects the relativity of people's concept of time. Although time is objective, people's perception of time is subjective, sometimes it feels like "time flies", and sometimes it feels like "time flies". However, the biggest deviation of time concept that Chinese people face today is expressed in the concept of "waiting time", that is, the subjective and psychological experience of the Chinese in the length of time they wait for the epidemic to end. In the current highly uncertain situation. If someone tells us with certainty that life can fully return to normal someday or someday in 2020, then this predictable wait can relieve everyone's anxiety and anxiety. But the fact is that no one can make such a prediction now. As a result, the vast majority of people have the illusion of "waiting time perception". They felt that time passed slowly, too slow to bear, and too slow to hide. It's the slowness that makes people feel like days are like years. When waiting time is fixed, people can usually effectively arrange their lives and work. However, when the waiting time is uncertain, people often lose the sense of control and produce the illusion of time perception. Research has shown that there are three objective factors that influence the perception of waiting time. The first is the external environment, and the second is the certainty of the waiting time and the "time filling" in the waiting process. Subjective factors include human emotion and personality characteristics. From the perspective of objective factors, there is still no obvious inflection point in the epidemic, and there is still a high degree of uncertainty in time. However, we have the advantage that we can use our free will to arrange time to fill. The so-called "time stuffer" refers to the activities we arrange in a certain unit of time, such as reading, writing, playing games, doing housework, work, reading aloud, Draw, sing, dance, etc. At present, in order to allow isolated Chinese people to have high-quality time at home, many large websites have opened free movies and TVs, and some websites also provide many videos that can help people relax. Studies have shown that time filling transforms waiting time into experience time through entertainment or busyness, making people feel less time. In addition, time filling can attract and distract people, thereby shortening their time perception. As adults, we must know what we usually do and feel that time passes quickly. As long as the activity is safe, you can do it and update your concept of time. As far as the internal factors affecting time perception are concerned, the current brain science research increasingly pays attention to the role of emotion in distorting time perception. The good news is that research shows that time perception is plastic. As mentioned above, we can solve this problem by enriching our time. We can also improve our perception of waiting time by adjusting emotions directly. Those who like to read will read more, and those who like to chase will chase drama. Those who don't usually have time to cook can use this time to demonstrate their cooking skills. Whatever you do, just find your favorite indoor activity.

In addition, although time cannot be stored, it can be "appropriated" to think about things you thought about many times before the outbreak, "do it whenever you have time", there must be something suitable for indoor and current work. If you do it now, you will not only fulfill your long-cherished wishes, but also make your "perception of waiting time" relatively objective. So why not? (The author is a professor of psychology at the Capital University of Economics and Business) --- End --- Contributions-Cooperation: yesi@cyol.com (please include contact information after the email) Can't sleep and can't talk?