Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days alone in a cave but was surprised that her time was up, believing she had been there for much shorter. A Liverpool John Moores University researcher explains why.
), may have significantly reduced the number of memories she formed during her isolation. Flamini herself noted: “I’m still stuck on November 21, 2021. I don’t know anything about the world.”
A loss of sense of time was consistently reported by adults and children who spent prolonged periods isolated in nuclear bunkers at the height of the cold war. It is also frequently reported by people serving prison sentences and was widely experienced byCaves, nuclear bunkers, prisons and global pandemics share two features which seem to create an altered sense of time. They isolate us from the wider world and involve confined spaces.
As the biological rhythms of sleep, thirst and digestion took over from the ticking hands of the clock, Flamini may have simply paid less and less attention to the passage of time, causing her to eventually lose track of it. For people who become confined against their will, time can become a prison itself. Prisoners of war and people serving prison sentences often report that monitoring the passage of time can become an obsession. It would seem that we are only able to really let go of time when we are in control of it.
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