Time warped

Most of us feel that we rarely have enough of it, yet few of us can explain how we actually perceive it. This book asks whether the way we experience time can be trained, and whether a better relationship with it is within reach. Its author, a psychologist and broadcaster, combines recent findings from psychology, neuroscience and biology with her own original study of how memory colours our sense of how much time has passed.

The book examines why time sometimes crawls and sometimes vanishes, and what lies behind these shifts. Along the way it offers practical ideas for using time more productively, for stretching or compressing how it feels in the moment, and for making more realistic predictions about what lies ahead. It also considers how these distortions might be turned to our advantage.