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Interlude XXXVIII - Time Inside the Body: Stress, Urgency, and the Warped Clock
What if time is not something we merely observe, but something the body actively creates?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the neuroscience of subjective time - how stress, trauma, and emotional regulation reshape our internal sense of urgency, duration, and presence. Drawing from contemporary research in neuroendocrinology and cognitive neuroscience, this episode examines why moments race during crisis, slow during depression, and fracture under trauma.
Listeners are guided through the physiology of time perception, including the role of cortisol…
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