Originally Posted by A C Bowden
Our perception of temporal flow
Is such that time seems to run slow
When we anxiously wait
For events running late,
As tests with a pendulum show.
- 1/8/2024, above

See "Exhalation," in the book Exhalation by Ted Chiang, a Borzoi book published by Alfred A Knopf, 2019, for a story on precisely this theme