# Time blindness Time blindness is when time passes without we realize. When it happens, it's just as if the clocks started ticking faster. Our sense of time is altered. Time blindness often occurs when we're in [[Flow]] state, so focused that we don't pay attention to time at all. An example is when we're looking at Facebook, TikTok and the like. An hour passes, and to us, it really only felt like 5 minutes. "5 minutes" and one hour passes but feels like only 5 minutes.