We float in and out of various temporalities, or differential zones of temporal experience. We are all in time, but our experience of time shifts and morphs, even within a given day. Sometimes we are rushed. Sometimes we are pressured. Sometimes the time can’t pass fast enough.
From the time we were children, we knew that our experience of time could shift. We knew that time would pass much more slowly during certain periods: a long, uninteresting stretch of the school day as we awaited recess or the days leading up to a birthday or Christmas. Time on those occasions seemed to crawl. Then there were those moments of play and joy and companionship when we became unaware of the passing of time until those moments drew to a close and we wondered where the time had gone or how it had passed so quickly.