Subjectively, moments of crisis or revelation seem to compress time. Neuroscience shows that heightened arousal (adrenaline surge) accelerates the encoding of events, giving the impression that “everything happened at once.” If Y denotes a psychic state— why we are questioning, Y as youthful exuberance, or Y as yearning—then the rapidity described is the mind’s response to a pivotal emotional trigger.
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