eli5, why does the first second seem to last longer when you being to look at a clock/timer?
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Imagine your eyes are cameras, and when you look at a different location, the image you see is panning very fast from one side to the other. That is a lot of information that gets to your brain, about stuff that you don’t really have time to process and are not even much interested in to begin with. Your brain just chooses to ignore that information, but it still has to “fill the gap” with something. So it decides to use the new information (what you are now looking at). This means that if you happened to look right when the new second had started, you get an extra fraction of a second of it looking the same.
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