The Relationship Between Time and Memory

Time and memory are linked. Your brain doesn't get time information for free. It's not like it has a built-in clock. So through experience, it figures out how to make correlations. If I have this much memory I can draw on, then that event must have lasted ten seconds, or ten months, or ten years. But there are some interesting exceptions to the slow motion effect. This is what I call the sliding on ice towards a brick wall phenomenon. When something unexpected happens, when you don't see it coming at all, you don't have time to put your attention systems on it. And write down the memories and in retrospect, it seems like it happened with no