Illusions of Time
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SOURCES:
1896 snowball fight: joaquimcampa/status/1311391615425093634?lang=en
Prospective and retrospective timing:
YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE by Dean Buonomano: www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Time-Machine-Neuroscience/dp/0393355608/
ISOLATION - Mind Field: uztop.info/my/video/nqN9naiaqo7FdWQ
(every episode of Mind Field is free to watch on UZtop!)
speed of time as we age:
FELT TIME by Marc Wittmann: www.amazon.com/Felt-Time-Science-Experience-Press/dp/0262533545/
"Age effects in perception of time": pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512313/
Olēka: uztop.info/my/video/aHh9rKZ9aLfHpps
periodization: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization
WaitButWhy article about The Lion King: waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/its-2020-and-youre-in-the-future.html
Barbara Walters for scale subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/BarbaraWalters4Scale
Barbara Walter world history image: www.reddit.com/r/UnitsOfX/comments/bwma7g/oc_world_history_in_units_of_barbara_walters/
Examples of facts that challenge our chronological illusions:
canyouactually.com/23-mind-bending-facts-about-time-that-will-change-your-perception-of-history-forever/
www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/14-facts-about-time-and-history-thatll-totally-bl
My "Narrow Slice" video: uztop.info/my/video/roB-ncWeeLLSpKc
construal level theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory
Sonder: uztop.info/my/video/dp2hhq9ikafKh2Q
Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com: uztop.info/my/video/nat1gtN9c6qnqp8
Early smile image: www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-behind-photo-happiest-man-china/
2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World - 1987: uztop.info/my/video/h4uUnpBlZ8CjknE
and: mrsitcom.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-story-of-7-11-video-shot-at-230am.html
Great subreddit for candid video: www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo/
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape: uztop.info/my/video/m4ZmpaeHX7Kthok
"Historical consciousness: the enigma of different paradigms": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220272.2019.1652937
Zachary Sayre Schiffman's THE BIRTH OF THE PAST: www.amazon.com/Birth-Past-Zachary-S-Schiffman/dp/1421422786/
Hartmut Rosa's SOCIAL ACCELERATION: www.amazon.com/Social-Acceleration-Modernity-Directions-Critical/dp/0231148356
History of twitter UI: twirpz.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/the-history-of-twitter-in-profile-pages-2006-to-2015/
Effect of roads: iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/
Talking With Attenborough Vsauce video: uztop.info/my/video/hHVqmLacntfZmpM
archive footage from archive.org and shutterstock
MRI clips are of my brain as taken by the Stark lab featured in this Mind field episode: uztop.info/my/video/ZoR6rKSHq6ekcn0
--MUSIC (in order of first appearance)--
"glitch" audionetwork
"sweet revival" audionetwork
"passage of time" audionetwork
"desert witch" audionetwork
"facing south" audionetwork
"broadway dawn" audionetwork
"final breath" audionetwork
"tribeca" audionetwork
"carlin dream" Jake Chudnow
"martinique" audionetwork
"lazy daze" audionetwork
"imaginary sun w less voices" Jake Chudnow
"why so blue" audionetwork
"for leah" Jake Chudnow
"shona" Jake Chudnow
"moon men" Jake Chudnow
"crypt" audionetwork
"eclectica" audionetwork
"banjo ascension" audionetwork
"heat and dust" audionetwork
"twisted trip" audionetwork
Darrell Fossitt
13 daqiqa oldin
Wow Michael, that was deep! I'm glad I took the "Time" to watch this video...
Blazing King
15 daqiqa oldin
Hey tomato sauce, tomato here!! XD
lesROKnoobz
20 daqiqa oldin
Brother you're only 9 years older than me. You've been doing this UZtop thing since you were in your twenties? what the ever loving hell. You're so smart / talented. can't imagine doing such things as a twenty anything. or a thirty for that matter
Sofia Keefe
22 daqiqa oldin
Why do I mix up dreams with reality tho
dementionalpotato
24 daqiqa oldin
“Micheal without a beard doesn’t exist, he cant hurt you” Micheal without a beard:
Der3k G
27 daqiqa oldin
About to make me rethink my whole life right now
TheBehnny
31 daqiqa oldin
More entertaining than any TV show
RICK GRIMES
32 daqiqa oldin
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS
Avatar Aang
33 daqiqa oldin
Me : Comments *The Return Of The King* Some Verified Person : **Comments The Same Thing** Me : ಠ︵ಠ ಠಿヮಠ (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ) (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ) ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Mo_cardio
35 daqiqa oldin
Anyone watching early 2021?
Mike LaPointe
37 daqiqa oldin
When he asked how many holes does a straw have..I never recovered.
PSn 505
43 daqiqa oldin
27:35, who also relate?
peedy pxblo
47 daqiqa oldin
This is basically an explanation of the movie TENET.
PSn 505
55 daqiqa oldin
That Pipe Dream vid.. I always thought it was real, damn..
Dustin Citrone
56 daqiqa oldin
@0:01 I just came.
Robert Nash
59 daqiqa oldin
My dad would always tell me the present is coming and then tell me it was in the past. Always blew my mind as a kid. Guess that's why I'm here, watching this video, now, in the present. At least it used to be the present :(
Mitschcrafter
Soat oldin
i watched this and just left 90% into the video and came back a week later. now it feels like ages and iam confused to what he is talking about.
Itz_Lily Gacha
Soat oldin
I just finished watching Solar Sands' video. I go to watch Vsauce. I see Solar Sands in the comments. I think it's a spooky coincidence. Vsauce has a video about spooky coincidences. *The coincidence to the coincidence.*
Beans and rice
Soat oldin
"it will happen to YOU!" -Abraham Simpson
Seeno
Soat oldin
HoWtObAsIc
Omar Perez
Soat oldin
Amazing vid wow! Finally! Great job michael!
GameWithAdam
Soat oldin
Hey Vsauce Mark here.
Gold Pixel Gaming
Soat oldin
26:44 actually I built my PC
singer M
Soat oldin
Anyone watching in 1974?
Avery St. Clair
Soat oldin
He's creepier with the beard. No, I mean without the beard. No, no, it's WITH the beard. Wait a minute...
Kuldeep Deka
Soat oldin
This video was a short long type ❤️
Karhu
Soat oldin
*How do we remember you after 50 years ?*
Gia Harton
Soat oldin
My theory is that we started working, thus felt longer while only remembering all the fun things from before. We are keep repeating dealing n chasing after client & deadline - Thus we tend to find the time go by so fast.
Fatima
Soat oldin
wait that's what Melanie Martinez said... "Times's an illusion, if you just remove it."
Rich Dobbs
Soat oldin
It is really freaky to think that I've been alive for 25% of the existance of the USA!
Piristron
Soat oldin
Who's watching this in 2021?
THE ASSMAN
Soat oldin
His last speech is just asking us to watch more youtube
Omer
Soat oldin
GOD BEARDLESS MICHAEL WHY DID YOU DO THIS
Why_tho886
2 soat oldin
He knows exactly what he did to half of us and he doesnt feel bad
Karlstens
2 soat oldin
I remember going to school before the internet. Thanks goodness I had Encarta 95 to do my assignments with.
Erfan Hoseini
2 soat oldin
Who else cried at the end?
Isaiah Perez
2 soat oldin
I've been thinking about this for a while you proved every point I was thinking of I was waiting for this video too
Guco
2 soat oldin
it has only been a minute to the video and i have to put some effort to understand what the fuck is going on.
tdg712
2 soat oldin
Thanks I'm having an existential crisis
David Ville
2 soat oldin
Wow you and I were born on the same year (don't know the month), and I always thought you were way older than me, but if you think about it, Since I've only see you on pre-recorded videos chances are every time I've seen you, you were actually younger than me.
Sammy
2 soat oldin
Chronosonder! I love that word, I've been thinking about this for a few months now. Like we're alive so we're somehow better than dead people? is that a messed up thought?
Calvissuperman
2 soat oldin
Yo, who's here???
Axolotl
2 soat oldin
The way this dude talks, it get your interest.
Porkus Morris
2 soat oldin
Who else misses Mind Field? Most UZtop Originals are bad but man I loved that one.
ProxyDoug
2 soat oldin
Weird thinking I'm not that much younger than Michael, I was about his age on that photo with Beakman when Beakman's World was airing here.
dazaimaru
2 soat oldin
Ah, what a delicious dose of existentialism during these late hours of the day 🙃
T Town
2 soat oldin
So basically what I took away from this video is I need to watch a bunch of mind numbing media until I get to see a new vid from Michael. Love your content bro. 🤯
Matthew McGourty
2 soat oldin
21:23 I was waiting for it
Drop Therapy
2 soat oldin
What the fuck did I just see
Frankice
2 soat oldin
"Be bored; Miss out; Fall behind; Feel time passing; Lose track of time while experiencing only what your body can alone. You might not have the time of your life, but you will have more time of your life" - Michael Stevens, Vsauce 2021 Amazing quote
Darell Carter
2 soat oldin
That was exactly what I need thank you for that! Time to make time for time! ✌🏿
David10 More
2 soat oldin
did he make the beard after and the non-beard was pre-recodred before?
Kapten
2 soat oldin
Hold up this video isn’t 6 years old. It’s a week.
seriouscatman
2 soat oldin
Does this mean that People of tomorrow will look at Michael as people of today look at Carl Sagan?
Avery D
2 soat oldin
So I guess the deal is Michael posts a video every six months that makes me question my life until the next video comes out and the cycle continues
Alex Perez
3 soat oldin
WHEN HE SAID GUESS HOW LONG ITS BEEN SINCE U STARTED WATCHING I SAID LIKE 5 MINS ANDIT WAS BARELY 2 LOL
ibuprofen303
3 soat oldin
19:12 - KIT TURBO BOOST NOW
Nat Rungpeng
3 soat oldin
It is like when you travel to a far away place and it feels like forever to reach the destination. But when it comes to return home? It is as quick as light.
Niko K
3 soat oldin
greatest teacher ever
Slingo Bobingo
3 soat oldin
26:37 Me surfin UZtop at 1am
Nourii
3 soat oldin
there would be a moment that michael upload his last video
BeastModeNL
3 soat oldin
Infinity is being shown by 2 rods on a clock weird isn’t it?
Parshv Patel
3 soat oldin
Time will stop when I will fall asleep
Ray Herring
3 soat oldin
... I had the opposite, my childhood flew by without me really even remembering it, but as I got older (20s and older), time seems to move so much faster :(
BeastModeNL
3 soat oldin
He is finnaly back
arthrogamer
3 soat oldin
Christopher Nolan wants to know your location
Collie's Studio
3 soat oldin
2021: Vsauce: comes back Bill Wurtz: comes back Oh muy god 2021 is getting better
XU LILY
3 soat oldin
Someone told me to stand facing the wall until they say stop (which was 5 minutes later). They were expecting I felt like 15 minutes, but I counted to 300.
Cheryl Birdsong-Juneau
3 soat oldin
It has been too long since I have watched a Vsauce video.
Darren Hodgkiss
3 soat oldin
The open laundry ganguly pick because hand summatively poke apud a sulky witness. wealthy, belligerent blowgun
Paul E
3 soat oldin
2:26 ???????????????????? No
onenickelmiracle
3 soat oldin
I'm this much older now 4,409,959 views than then 4,408,338 views and this much older when I finally posted this 4,410,271 views.
onenickelmiracle
2 soat oldin
And now when I'm eating raisin bran 4,413,656 views. This video is long, it's really not that new to me, and kind of boring and pointless things I already know.
onenickelmiracle
3 soat oldin
Then first 4,411,577 views by the time I got done doing a lot of nonsense flipping around doing God knows what on this site and that and cooking up some Brussel sprouts.
Society
3 soat oldin
soooo anyone watching now?
Erin Yamada
4 soat oldin
7:47
Painted Marc
4 soat oldin
So THATS why he hasn't made a video in a while...
The Book Of Wisdom
4 soat oldin
Michael solve the problem of state governing system which is the best from the existing system if they are no-go invent and represent new one to us.
J M
4 soat oldin
I imagine people did feel less like *the* main character in the past, when community was more important and people felt more connected to the earth and their ancestors. I want to adopt that kind of mindset--even if I do love "you're the main character in a coming of age film" playlists
Austin Harding
4 soat oldin
talk about one of the rarest phenomenon that exists in the physical universe. There are Actually many records of it occurring, but compared to other phenomenon, are of the rarest, even rarer then bilocation.... time slips. Yes it is a real phenomenon, but is as mysterious to us as ball lighting was 100 years ago. there are 2 books that i have found that are recounts of such an experience during a time slip, one is called "An Adventure" or "The Adventure" by 2 scholars written 120 years ago give or take, another is one that was jus recently translated into English called "Chronicles from the Future" also originally written 100 years ago, the latter of which completely changed my view of the world
Austin Harding
4 soat oldin
in other words, watching this video was a huge waste of my time?
bart mcdougall
4 soat oldin
Am 32 and lived in 5 decides
Braulio Ortiz
4 soat oldin
Crazy how I need to do something to kill time and this came my way. Now that I watched this 30 minute video it feels like it took so long to finish but now that I gatta go somewhere will it feel like a small part of my time of day. But I’ll probably remember it since I went the whole day doing nothing waiting for my soccer game. What book was he reading there ? Might need to get it.
Austin Harding
4 soat oldin
That book full of post it notes, i love it😄
Yasha Zare
4 soat oldin
Pashmaaam!
ctrlaltbean
4 soat oldin
VSauce is honestly the greatest of UZtop.. BRB internet.
Austin Harding
4 soat oldin
funny how these were things i always thought about an had come to this same conclusion maybe 3 to 5 years ago
Austin Harding
4 soat oldin
16.00 sounds mor like egocentrism to me
Choochirilla
4 soat oldin
My brain is burning omg it hurts
Connor Thompson
4 soat oldin
Why does boiling macaroni water foam up when the lid is on but not when it's off? Please do a video on this very interesting topic.
G M
4 soat oldin
Here’s what’s most shocking to me. Everything we have now; all of the technology and knowledge and everything we have built and learned - all of it. That is The only thing that sets us apart from people, say, 100 years ago. Or 1,000 years ago. Or even 10,000 years ago. We’re just human beings. If all of our technology and tangible things were removed, we’d be nothing more than prehistoric human beings. “Modern times” is nothing but a label we use to define what we perceive to be an unprecedented advanced time in human history. But the truth is, as humans, we are no more advanced than hundreds of generations ago. We have collected, slowly, all of the knowledge and all of the things necessary to exist in “the modern world” today. Imagine the butterfly effect. What if one single event or one single breakthrough in history never happened? Is there a “thing” that occurred that set us on the path to end up with advanced technology today? What if that one thing didn’t happen? Well, none of us would exist. But, that’s not to say nobody would exist. There could be still, to this very day, a bunch of nomadic prehistoric humans roaming the Earth. We might not have developed animal husbandry or farming or any of that. We could very well still be savages not far removed from what we refer to as animals. We could very well just be a bunch of animals... It’s all a matter of perspective, eh? As is the basis of this video. :)
Vontux
4 soat oldin
Its fitting that this video about perception of time and the past feels la lot like an old school VSauce video. I like it.
Leo Fitz_Lad
4 soat oldin
Not joking i don't know what I had for breakfast my memory sucks nothing ever happens yesterday felt like my 11th bday not a metaphor (I'm 14)
Manos Ads
4 soat oldin
I feel old...
Ai REI
4 soat oldin
uhm, Pls stop
Rodrick Crichton
5 soat oldin
My mind: Wtf is he talking about
halcyon510
5 soat oldin
Existential crisis activated.
Kenneth Amanyangole
5 soat oldin
why were you in isolation
Vince Collins
5 soat oldin
age 50 to age 60 takes about 10 seconds............
Filiph Sandberg
5 soat oldin
A masterpiece! So interesting!
Scotty Troxell
6 soat oldin
Would've been funnier if he said Uranus will always be gassy, instead of Jupiter.
Citrus
6 soat oldin
These are literally my 3am thoughts