Working with Time-Blindness

What is it?

NRather, I’m saying that time blind-ness is a concept that people created to describe the behavior in which a person is unaware of the passage of time and and what time it is. Supposedly, this behaviour is fixed. If you have it, you have it. By Digging deeper, I have found that to be not entirely true. Lets take a closer look.

Where does it come from?

Perpetual lateness to meetings, deadlines, and getting fixated on a task to the extend that hours went by certainly made me believe that I was time blind. Years ago I didn’t have a name for it. Only an annoyed, frustrated reaction. Especially so, if the timely delivery of my presence involved other people. Either I let myself down or I let others down. Suddenly, I heard it mentioned on the internet. They articulated it so well and I thought, “Aha! So its not just me!” Followed by more beliefs about what it could be.

The first limiting belief

Time-blindness is fixated. By implying a certain predisposition, i.e. we are born with it, there is an automatic pressumption that it isn’t changeable, and that I needed help to overcome it using strategies. With the exception of this sentence, I won’t make an effort to show that I have overcome it. But what I will say is that this limiting belief does not help, and neither is it true. We may be predisposed to having less awareness of the passage of time, however that doesn't mean it cannot be cultivated.

How do we keep reinforcing this belief?

By running around in a perpetual state of disregulation. In a dysregulated state of being, the belief, “there is no time” is everywhere. Why? Because supposedly, this current state of time is unpleasant. It doesn’t feel good in our bodies.

We implicited (subconciously) believe “there is no time.” We have this nifty tool in our brains called, the RAS, the reticular activating system, which basically filters out everything we don’t believe to be true, and aligns our attention (and percetion) to things which reinforcce our belief. So if we believe we are timeblind, then of course, we will doing those things that reinforce this belief.

Can we break this cycle?

Certainly! But first, get rid of that previously held belief that you were born with it. As long as you hold on to that belilef, there won't be improvements. Or there might. Actualy this belief and the other do no conflate with each other.

The first thing I did was become regulated. In a regulated state, I didn’t have resistance to the present task. I wasn’t wishing to be anywhere else but here.

Really, that’s all that’s needed to crack the ice. Then its just a matter of time before the RAS returns to a natural state of belief: there is no time. This is perhaps the truest statement out of all the statements made in this article. Ironically, it is the most radicall. Our minds love to create the illusion of progression, by comparing moments together.

Nevertheless, people walk around with the belief: “there is no time” without realizing. In a

Timeblindness is only bad because we’re told its bad

Have you ever noticed you don’t a give a shit about time when you are in a state of joy or When you are fixated on something you like? Theres no room in your head to think about time.

That’s because we call it time-blindness when we don’t like it. Howerve, we dont seem to mind at all when this behaviour isn’t working against us.

What's going on here?

Basically, we when learn about time blindness, we also learn the attitude to have towards the concept of time blindness. We see the professionals try to sell their services with an attitude in attempts to relate to their audience.

“Are you always late? I was so frustrated from missing classes, of getting the date wrong. This is called time-blindness…. Etc.”

Its innocently dubius.

FOMO

I saw an ad for adhd, talking about how adhders suffer from fomo. In the ad they were aware of that.