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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Visualization of `time'
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 02:06:48 EST
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> It would be interesting to hear from other people how they visualize or
> otherwise perceive time.
> Also, if anybody knows of any publiced studies on the subject I would be
> interested in looking up the reference.
> 
> 					Panos Economopoulos

When I took a course on cultural anthropology, I read about a tribe in which
the people visualized themselves standing still, with the future at their
backs and the past in front of them.  Time, or the events of time, would move
from behind them to in front of them.  Their explanation was that we can see
what has already happened, but not what is going to happen.  This is almost
the exact opposite of the typical visualization in this country: we talk
about marching forward into the future.  Most Americans (and Europeans, I
would guess) visualize themselves as moving, with the future in front of
them and the past behind them.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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