What Time Blindness is: Could You Be Time Blind? | Psychology Today
Ways that human society have changed that have removed the nature supports for people who are time blind:
- Developing electricity so that we’re no longer bound by the sun or lighting methods that visibly mark time by the consumption of fuel – like fires, candles and oil lamps.
- The development of suburbs so that not everyone lives within hearing distance of the bells on a clock tower to mark the hour both day and night.
- The development of digital and silent analog clocks so there is no longer an auditory cue of time passing.
It’s only in very recent human history that we’ve removed the supports that someone with time blindness used to be able to rely on. I’m not surprised that we’ve only recently figured out that some people are time blind. Honestly, I’m surprised that it isn’t the majority of people, but it’s likely tied into our circadian rhythms and we didn’t “invent” time, but rather invented a way to track and coordinate it.