Ep124 "Why don't we notice gaps in time?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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How is your consciousness like a flame that continually goes out and gets re-lit? Why can you see other people's eyes move, but you can't see your own eyes move in the mirror? And what does any of this have to do with deep sleep, anesthesia, comas, amnesia, and empires of soft-bodied creatures that came before us? Tune in this week for some science that will shift your view of reality.
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| 0:00.0 | Do we experience gaps in time? |
| 0:08.6 | Is your consciousness like a flame that continually goes out and then gets reignited? |
| 0:15.4 | Why can you see someone else's eyes move, but you can never see your own eyes move in the mirror. |
| 0:22.6 | The answer is some freaky stuff that's going to shift your view of reality. |
| 0:27.6 | And what does any of this have to do with deep sleep or anesthesia or comas or amnesia? |
| 0:34.6 | Empires of soft-bodied creatures that might have come before us, and what you do |
| 0:40.9 | or don't remember about your life. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to Intercosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford, |
| 0:52.4 | and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe |
| 0:56.8 | to understand why and how our lives look the way they do. This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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