Do my cats think I left them for a week?

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  • Francophile22
    11 years ago | pl

    they age 7 times faster but that has no relation to their perception of the length of a day from sunup to sundown.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago | pl

      Oh really?

      So, if a human and an ant both walk a mile do they feel it's the same distance?

      Does a mile feel the same when flying, driving and walking?

      A mile is a mile, however....how that mile is perceived can vary greatly. Many, many factors will influence the perceived 'length' of the mile. Size, health, mode of travel, age, urgency, pain....PLUS, one major thing humans have that animals do not is a strong knowledge of past and future. Memory, units of measure and knowledge of a past and future heavily influence time.

      Since animals and humans have such remarkably different 'references' available for perceiving time it makes no sense that time would BE perceived exactly the same.

      Take a person who has schizophrenia or Parkinson's, they do not perceive time the same way as their own fellow humans. Time perception is complicated. It differs between humans, sometimes remarkably differing, so why would you think it wouldn't differ between humans and animals?

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      • Francophile22
        11 years ago | pl

        Those are different. You can't just state as proven that just because they age 7 times faster they feel time goes 7 times slower.

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