Temporal Survival
If the perception of time is subjective, then temporal perception is, in a strange way, a survival mechanism. This suggests that our everchanging perception of time is, like our everchanging perception of space, governed by our immediate survival needs. As a basic example, if time seems to slow down, then this might be the brain’s way of giving our awareness more “time” to process new information. In the same way, if time seems to speed up, then this might be our brain’s way of helping us coast past previously processed information.
