If I say 'Move the 12PM meeting forward two hours', what time does it now start?

Here's where my wife and I differed. I said 10AM, she said 2PM. Turns out I have a time-moving perspective and she has an ego-moving perspective. I said, "forward means closer, ergo, sooner....what is wrong with you, time moves even if you aren't there", she said she moves through time. To which I said, "the universe does not revolve around you, dear. "


How do you perceive time? Viral TikTok video explains the different ways people interpret the clock

Do you have an ego-moving or time-moving perspective?

It's possible that you interpret time differently from your friends and family.

A new video by AsapScience – a YouTube and TikTok channel created by Canadian science content creators, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown – explains the different ways people see time, and it is dividing the internet.

"You may not know this, but there are only two ways in which we humans perceive time, and I am [going to] ask you a question so you can find out which one you are," says Brown in the 48-second video, which had more than three million views at the time of writing.

"If I tell you that Wednesday's noon meeting has been moved forward by two hours, do you now think the meeting is at 2pm or at 10am?"

Brown then explains the two interpretations of time.

"If you think the meeting's at 2pm, that means you have an ego-moving perspective of time. You see yourself as moving forward through time," he explains.

"If you now think the meeting is at 10am, this means you have the time-moving perspective of time. You see yourself as stagnant, [with] time moving forward towards you."

He concludes the video by acknowledging that it's going to unite and divide viewers.

"Now, you might think that this is insane, that someone even sees the world, or time, differently than you, but it's true," he says. "So, ask your friends, ask your family this question and bond with them ... or find out that they actually see the world completely differently."

 

When? Friday or do you want that moved forward two days?

 

Fascinating and makes me rethink my life and how I've framed it.

 

That’s why this is all fascinating to me and borders on metaphysical. The way you personally frame time affects your life. Since I see time as a ‘physical’ thing that I can’t affect, I work around it. Like wanting a helicopter. I often say that time is my enemy. My wife thinks she moves through time and that she affects it, which dictates her life. All very philosophical.