417: Texting Our Exes, Contagious Dancing, & Life Lessons
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Today we find out why time during quarantine is fluid & disorienting. Hear why people in Antarctica are developing their own language. Susie reveals the psychology of why we want to text our exes during times of crisis. And we realize we've both been resorting to our childhood pleasures during this "uncertain time." Plus, we find out why plants can act as totems of resiliency.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a |
| 0:15.0 | Hi |
| 0:17.0 | Susie cute |
| 0:19.0 | I'm okay, how are you? Oh, you know, so I'm not thriving. Yeah, that's it as they say |
| 0:28.1 | It's weird how oh this actually will lead into one of the things I want to talk about but I was gonna say isn't it strange how like |
| 0:34.5 | It's hard to tell whether time is moving slowly or at rapid pace. Oh my god |
| 0:41.0 | Ain't that the truth right? It's so weird this is I remember I talked about this all the time |
| 0:45.5 | We're like see this is how proof that time is like a social construct. Yeah, it's like and when you don't have and also |
| 0:52.0 | my |
| 0:54.0 | Theory but it's not mine. This is like probably something that I don't know has as like a known thing |
| 1:01.9 | That we need novelty in order to make yeah like like markers in time like we need when it's all routine |
| 1:09.4 | When it's the same every single day when it's freaking groundhog groundhogs day you don't there's nothing to like |
| 1:16.4 | And I don't know |
| 1:19.2 | What do you even call that like it's like highlighting a moment in yeah like contrast |
| 1:23.7 | Yes contrast yes, and you go. Oh, that's different. I remember that like remember novelty and like I think about you know like the |
| 1:31.7 | Memory palace and the memorizing tricks and how you have to make it |
| 1:36.3 | You know absurd. Yeah, and a novelty kind of thing in your mind and |
| 1:41.5 | So yeah, there you go. Well, it reminds me of when I had a new baby and |
| 1:47.0 | Like |
| 1:48.2 | Their parents always like to say oh the the days are long but the years are short and they say it like you're supposed to |
| 1:55.1 | Be all cute see about it, but it actually is true because it's like is this time moving really slowly or really fast |
| 2:02.2 | Yeah, and it's a so this is super crazy that you even bring that up because I read this |
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