500 Days in a Cave: How We Lose Track of Time

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 7, 2026 · 24m

What happens to your sense of time when every external cue disappears? Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days alone in a Spanish cave with no light, clocks, or contact — and emerged thinking far less time had passed. This episode explores the neuroscience of prospective vs. retrospective timing, the isolation experiments of Jürgen Aschoff and Michel Siffre, and why an unstructured week can vanish while a packed one feels long in hindsight. The anchors we don't notice — light, meals, other people — turn out to be doing more work than we think. Episode 5763 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5763 (permanent short…