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I'm confused. Is this saying that you would expect to experience "time flies" with high or low dopamine?

Otherwise, holy shit. Confirmation bias is likely in play, but this sounds an awful lot like my experience of daily life. Slow time, difficultly with delayed gratification, strong desire to repeat situations/actions that resulted in successes.

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"When dopamine activity was high, the animal was more likely to judge an interval as short, and vice versa."

Also explains why we are miserable. When we are having a good time, time flies. When we are not time slows down. It's as if our brain is wired to fast-forward the good parts and play the bad parts in slow motion so I guess we have time to deal with them. It wired to perform, not wired to enjoy.

I dunno. Neurotransmitters are complicated, and interact in complicated ways. I typically have "slow time", and it doesn't speed up when I'm having a good time. I don't know if that's low dopamine, or what, but now I'm curious to get a... neurotransmitter panel? Analysis? You get the idea.

Put a different way, it would seem the brain might make the good times something you want to repeat and make you avoid bad times.

All I know is that sometimes when I play Geometry Dash, it's too fast for me, and other times it feels kind of slow.

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