**Your Mind Can Bend Time—Here’s How
Makai Allbert / 27 December 2025
Everyone experiences time, but not in the same way.
A minute is always a minute, except when it isn’t.
This idea was put to the test in a 2023 Harvard study.
Researchers induced minor bruising on participants’ forearms
and then had them sit in rooms where the clocks ran at normal
speed, half-speed, or double-speed.
Crucially, the actual elapsed time was identical across all
conditions—28 minutes—but the clocks ticked at different rates.
The results surprised the researchers. Wounds healed faster
when people thought more time had passed, and slower when they
thought less time had passed. “Personally, I didn’t think it would
work,” lead author Peter Aungle told The Epoch Times. “And then it
did work!”
A century ago, Albert Einstein demonstrated that time is
relative—not fixed. He explained the idea with a simple, humorous
example: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like
a minute. That’s relativity.”
Now, psychologists and neuroscientists are finding that our
sense of time is not only inherently subjective but also highly
malleable.
We can’t stop the clock, but by understanding how we perceive
time, we can make minutes feel longer, heal faster, and even expand
our memories.
How the Mind Affects Reality
The Harvard healing experiment is a pivotal piece of evidence
that mind and body are not only connected, but may be one and the
same. “We weren’t really manipulating time itself. We were manipu-
lating expectations,” Aungle said.
“If they [people] think more time has passed, they expect more
healing—and those expectations can shape the body.”
Most people think of mind-body effects only in terms of
emotion, he added. Yet, “psychology is embedded in everything the
body does. I would argue the mind influences every physiological
outcome to some degree.”
Expectations are not the only time bender. While believing
time has sped up aids healing, high-arousal negative emotions,
such as fear, significantly dilate our perception of time, making
it feel slower.
In one study, participants watched frightening clips from
“The Shining” or “Scream.” Afterward, a blue circle was presented
in the center of the computer screen. Participants perceived that
the circle lasted longer after watching frightening movies than
after watching neutral or sad films.
Sylvie Droit-Volet, the lead researcher of the study, told
The Epoch Times that subjective expansion is likely because “fear
accelerates the internal clock, making time seem to pass more
quickly and prompting action”—the fight or flight response.
Because the internal clock is ticking faster, measuring more
units of time per second, the external world appears to move in
slow motion. The time dilation allows the brain to process infor-
mation with higher resolution during life-threatening situations.
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We have to remind ourselves that God sets the time for every
moment in our lives.
I was told once by a very smart thoughtful man that said;
God gives us each a specific number of heartbeats in His plan for
all of us. When you have fulfilled His plan He will call you to
Heaven and we all will be judged.
Conservatively,
John
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