Illusions of Time

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SOURCES:
1896 snowball fight: joaquimcampa/stat...
Prospective and retrospective timing:
YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE by Dean Buonomano: www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Tim...
ISOLATION - Mind Field: • Isolation - Mind Field...
(every episode of Mind Field is free to watch on KZbin!)
speed of time as we age:
FELT TIME by Marc Wittmann: www.amazon.com/Felt-Time-Scie...
"Age effects in perception of time": pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512...
Olēka: • Olēka: The Awareness o...
periodization: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodi...
WaitButWhy article about The Lion King: waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/its-20...
Barbara Walters for scale subreddit: / barbarawalters4scale
Barbara Walter world history image: / oc_world_history_in_un...
Examples of facts that challenge our chronological illusions:
canyouactually.com/23-mind-be...
www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuensch...
My "Narrow Slice" video: • Our Narrow Slice
construal level theory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constru...
Sonder: • Sonder: The Realizatio...
Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com: • "Pipe Dream" - Animusi...
Early smile image: www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...
2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World - 1987: • 2:30am at a 7-11 near ...
and: mrsitcom.blogspot.com/2014/04/...
Great subreddit for candid video: / thewaywewereonvideo
New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape: • New York City in 1993 ...
"Historical consciousness: the enigma of different paradigms": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Zachary Sayre Schiffman's THE BIRTH OF THE PAST: www.amazon.com/Birth-Past-Zac...
Hartmut Rosa's SOCIAL ACCELERATION: www.amazon.com/Social-Acceler...
History of twitter UI: twirpz.wordpress.com/2015/06/...
Effect of roads: iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmid...
Talking With Attenborough Vsauce video: • Talking With Attenborough
archive footage from archive.org and shutterstock
MRI clips are of my brain as taken by the Stark lab featured in this Mind field episode: • Your Brain on Tech
-MUSIC (in order of first appearance)-
"glitch" audionetwork
"sweet revival" audionetwork
"passage of time" audionetwork
"desert witch" audionetwork
"facing south" audionetwork
"broadway dawn" audionetwork
"final breath" audionetwork
"tribeca" audionetwork
"carlin dream" Jake Chudnow
"martinique" audionetwork
"lazy daze" audionetwork
"imaginary sun w less voices" Jake Chudnow
"why so blue" audionetwork
"for leah" Jake Chudnow
"shona" Jake Chudnow
"moon men" Jake Chudnow
"crypt" audionetwork
"eclectica" audionetwork
"banjo ascension" audionetwork
"heat and dust" audionetwork
"twisted trip" audionetwork
'cats in pot' sweatshirt from www.babycatsofca.com/shop/cat...
sweatshirt worn at the very end was designed by Martcellia Liunic www.liunic.com/

[@nitromiyazaki]

I appreciate the fact that this man spent literally 130 days to make a joke that lasted 10 seconds.

[@greatsupper]

I mean he and his goons had a lot of research to do for the vid

[@Hoghiderrr]

@@greatsupper “ *his* *goons* “

[@xoTaken]

@@Hoghiderrr" his henchmen "

[@nothomebutnotreally3782]

@@xoTaken his subordinates

[@yernan4067]

@@nothomebutnotreally3782 “his minions”

[@TheMilitantHorse]

"It's okay, shaved Michael doesn't exist, he can't hurt you." Shaved Michael: "Or can I?"

[@AM23.]

Lol

[@BeyondThePines0]

‘Music starts playing in background’ 😂😂

[@joramnoelclet5471]

here before this gets 1000likes

[@usefulgamesandmore9512]

Subscribe to Useful Games and more

[@ruffles886]

@@joramnoelclet5471 here before your reply gets a sexual amount of likes.

[@NotroLPS]

14:52 I heard this story somewhere on the internet of a young person, who I think worked at some kind of retirement home, who was talking to a very elderly woman. The old woman asked the poster something like “do adults tell you about time before the internet, and how it’s dangerous? And how they didn’t have it back in their day?” The original poster, of course, responded yes. The old lady then responded with “that’s what my parents told me about electricity.” That may be my favourite example of these “illusions of time”. Me, writing this message on a computer that can fit in my pocket, could talk to someone who didn’t even have lightbulbs as a child.

[@hanzflackshnack1158]

To be fair, electricity universally expanded productivity. Most of our population is spending more than half of their free time hopelessly addicted to a dopamine button. People are still playing cause and effect on why society's overall intelligence is declining but... clearly occupying half our mental energy with Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and KZbin (a process that puts people in a dopamine deficit for the rest of the day which is directly tied to depleted motivation) is going to impact participation in challenging activities. "Electricity is the Devil" and "I am physically incapable of stopping myself from picking up my phone to check for notifications every 90 seconds"...

[@ttocsfitz]

This is the Pinnacle of VSauce. Rewatch was even better. Michael, are you a philosopher poet? The team around you must also be amazing. Massive contributions to our time through your brilliant videos over the years. Wishing you the very best!

[@tyvekhomewrap9164]

I'm also rewatching his older stuff since he hasn't uploaded in almost a year...

[@SeptimusTSS]

He recently said he does it all alone on an Anthony Padilla podcast

[@MAGA_Extreamist]

​@@tyvekhomewrap9164I just saw my comment from 3 years ago saying it's nice of him to make another video 😅 forgot all about it

[@shubhamraj809]

Or is he? 😂

[@thesourcefinder]

Other KZbinrs: "Hey guys, sorry for the long break" Michael: “Time is an Illusion”

[@jhoja628]

Underrated

[@tour1st736]

that made me laugh lol

[@TrainedByHarper]

soooooo acccurate

[@otakujb1111]

lol

[@janaahmed3415]

HHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS I CANT THIS MADE ME WHEEZE-

[@hankjwimbleton6204]

Bro imagine if Micheal died and at the funeral he jumps ups at says "or am I" and goes to explain why circle aren't round

[@MuddafukhingdisKUST]

this is so fucking funny

[@danielsayre3385]

On point

[@graham4520]

lmfaoooo

[@Smokeydrag669]

I can see this 100% omg

[@thesunskimmer5348]

I love this

[@aronbajric7959]

Never felt like this before in my whole life… i might need to take a walk to process all the things i've learned in this past 30 minutes. To have such videos online and for free is unbelieveable. Thank you for this mastepiece! For sure coming back to rewatch in some Time :)

[@landronsc]

That picture of the man smiling with the bowl of rice is now one of my favorite pictures ever. Idk why it brings me so much joy

[@brocknelson5521]

Imagine being his daughter and asking a question about life

[@ICM0n3y]

He better upload that response everytime so I can tune in and learn more information I didn't know I needed to know.

[@clovercarroll8285]

"Hey, daughter, Dad here. What is life..."

[@nicoleyuni1833]

I imagined it. Cool

[@Ashwagur]

She would never ask a question again

[@maryjoygelizon4268]

@@Ashwagur maybe but if she liked ut then shel start asking questions 3 times a day

[@kimberlykenyon9440]

Michael without a beard makes me think he will try to steal chipmunks and force them to sing

[@zylnexxd842]

Lol...

[@crusty_cookie3099]

He looks kinna jeff bezos

[@mayn90s19]

He's a much much cooler David cross tho.

[@lilyjr.1384]

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness

[@Nugcon]

lmao

[@RapidPhantom293]

I grew up in the 2000s and i lost my father a long time ago, and as a person in their 20s, i still feel like he's there with me whenever i see photos of him.

[@lindaeasley5606]

I've always been fascinated by the connection between our sense of smell and the triggering of memories. After my mother died ,I bought one of her favorite colognes just so smelling it would make me feel like she was there with me

[@matthewlacey4198]

I've found that smell can give really really vivid memories, like walking past someone and being able to smell that they wear the same perfume as a girl you used to go out with years ago, or smelling a clinical, hospital smell years after a grandparent or family member was in hospital, it puts you right back in that moment, and you smell it and instantly go "that's the smell from this place and this time"

[@Pleiades00]

Everybody gangsta ‘til Michael invents his own scientific terms

[@psyakaun377]

xD loved this one

[@i74r]

haha

[@sirBumpyCase]

At this point, I think he deserves it

[@Enes-zv7lt]

16:56

[@Yixins-Study-Corner]

yes.

[@greatbluegamer2394]

Everyone: Where's Michael? Michael: Alright let's just shave my beard for a 30 second intro

[@merlyonwilcoe1006]

He looks so much different without it.

[@ahuman._.4991]

Actually if you don't know He shave because of Mrbeast 2020 KZbin rewind There was a clip of Michael where he loses his face hairs.

[@paul-ye3ut]

I will tell the future to anyone that likes my comment

[@duckietheduck]

Both this comment and the reply are wrong. He shaved his beard as part of a campaign to get people to register to vote. When 10,000 people registered to vote using his link, he shaved it.

[@aceman0000099]

@@ahuman._.4991 he actually shaved his hair months before that, they just added the clip to rewind. He put it on his channel D!NG in like August or something

[@qqypuzrw]

"Make some time for time to control you. Be bored, miss out, fall behind, lost track of time. While experiencing only what your body can alone. You might not have the time of your life, but you'll have more time of your life." this one really hit me

[@wheelzwheela]

Part of the reason songs from the 90s don’t seem as old to us is because by the 90s recordings became so clear and well balanced they don’t sound (like they were recorded) much different than those of today. The recordings in the 60s sounded sounded very different from those in the 90s because the technology was so primitive.

[@piiinkDeluxe]

He said that in the video too, through the examples of sephia and pixelated videos.

[@JackTheChappers]

Theory: Michael shaves his beard right after he makes a video, and waits until it grows back to post another video.

[@othembelamndela843]

Makes sense!

[@willfelice702]

I buy it

[@Jakepf]

Believable

[@theblankettruth]

He may have saved, and grown it back for each clip of this video.

[@orgyduster266]

All he has to do is flex his brain and he grows a new beard.

[@meows_and_woof]

Michael shaving his beard for the sake of making a 2 seconds point in the video- definition of determination

[@THE-NC2]

Ohh that’s why he takes his time making the videos lol

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

I wish I had a woman that didn't want me to shave mine, so I could shave it and see what happens.

[@mynamesjudge]

Maybe he just wanted to shave his beard.

[@electron3114]

Yh

[@socorpios99]

he shaved it as a goal if a certain number of people registered to vote for the elections back in nov

[@RanmaruRei]

When I first tried VRChat I felt a strange sensation. Unlike the Internet VR gives presence: the feeling being in some space, a virtual space. And when you realise you share the space with people that live in actual reality far far far away from you, like thousand miles, it blows your mind. At least it does to mine. It's like finally experience what singularity does really mean, when a distance does not matter. But the time is not yet broken.

[@standporter]

Protagonist syndrome is real. I remember asking my mom when I was seven or eight, "There's got to be only one *me* in the world, right?" referring to myself. Because I could only feel my own emotions and experiences and no one else's, I couldn't quite grasp at the time that other people also had subjective experiences.

[@quinn7894]

I had the same feeling. Sometimes I get that feeling now.

[@calvintong7795]

*“Sir, I just asked what time is it”*

[@dontwatchthat869]

LMFAOOOOO

[@ahmetbey4730]

Did you actually L your FAO?

[@vqrtex4910]

Haven’t heard that joke in a long time

[@lucynorton4712]

102nd like (Don't mind me...I know it's not a milestone, but I want to remember the number)

[@lewnatheworld]

or did you? *que music*

[@estieFa]

Speaking of time, I'm new to this channel, and I'm disturbed by how much time has passed without my knowing such a brilliant youtuber exists.

[@rioman6006]

You‘re in for a treat friend

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

One of many illusions of time is that I could've sworn this video came out only 2 years ago

[@JohnMushitu]

And when the world needed him most, he came back....

[@jooahukkinen7253]

Copied comment. He was never gone.

[@aaronlittle5478]

Just in time

[@calvingrace2538]

FECAL

[@Justin-ShalaJC]

Thats exactly what was going through my mind also, god damn we need vsauce now more than ever.

[@SoCloseToToast]

Don't even need to hit the bell, KZbin just knows everyone needs to see this video by default

[@Jacobmathews.]

Vsause moment

[@iamverybigsad]

it's how vsauce videos are

[@jacrispy9703]

Yep

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

@@Jacobmathews. V sauCe

[@Jacobmathews.]

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper ahh yes

[@petrhanzl8399]

Insane how Micheal has been on the scene for ages and yet he is the one that does not change and pretty much nobody cares. Videos nowadays are flashy and fast, but Micheal is just same. Pure talent.

[@hieronymusbutts7349]

My sense of time is so fundamentally broken that this feels like a geometry lesson. Powerful hallucinogens can give you the impression of millennia in sequence, watching civilisations rise and fall. It's hard to keep track of what day or time it is - hard to remember ages, because I see people as a temporal spectrum constantly being re-expressed through a singular point, on a path that looks linear from the perspective of its own movement but is constantly forking out into various possibilities then collapsing into physical realities from an external view - more akin to a crystalline matrix than a straight line.

[@hieronymusbutts7349]

This doesn't mean that because there are infinite possibilities that there is a timeline in which you live forever - infinite numbers between 0 and 1 does not allow for a 2. As you age, the number of possibilities first increases and then decreases, until all timelines end with your perceptive existence of them (i.e. you die and your body ceases to act as a function of measurement to create time as a comparison of physical states between iterations of possibility [quantum state] and reality [how the quantum state collapses into a particular physical state])

[@Taifun_TV]

This video took so long to make because he needed his beard to grow

[@dillontan5644]

intelligence 100

[@SteveInLava]

I know it only took a short while because of the time illusion

[@SharkyQt]

Beardless Michael looks weird now...

[@FireyDeath4]

Usually people doing this kind of thing multitask and don't spend all their time waiting for one project... oh r/woooosh

[@streetfood7568]

@@envalence450 how much sleep did you get last night

[@chubbyemu]

baby michael: he... h parents: aww he's about to say his first word 🥺 baby michael: HEY vsauce, michael here

[@theredbastard]

Lol I used to watch your nuclear throne vids

[@minky2396]

It’s chubbyemu

[@burgerwarts]

Lol

[@happychair4880]

Hmmm medicine

[@samtheman9000]

Vsauce4

[@changedthetag]

I'm blown away by this guy's thinking skills.

[@ViVi-mq2ye]

There's a 2014-born girl who I know personally. She entered the world a few short months after "Frozen" hit theaters. Even now, at age 18, I find it strange that I watched Frozen in theaters when I was a kid. In other words, I saw it in theaters when I was exactly her age.

[@changwanyu4231]

The image of Michael shaved is so unnerving.

[@pafnutiytheartist]

I am in a room. It is dark. I am tied to a chair and my hands are bound with rope. A small light flickers above me. I am hungry. When was the last time I ate? The small doorknob in the corner begins to twist. A door opens; my eyes flick up to meet him. It is none other than Michael Stevens, the host and owner Vsauce. I fill up with questions? Words clog my throat, thickening like honey, and as they smooth out and start to pour the words none can even come past my lips- Michael cuts me off. “I’ll be the one asking the questions.” He goes out of view, “where did he go?”, I wonder. There was a flash in front of me, revealing his face once more. He greeted me. “Hey Vsauce Michael here” my eyes wander and I become Starstruck, for right in front of me was Michael Stevens shirtless. He caressed my neckbeard slowly, he started rambling on. “Where are your fingers?” Sharpening his knife in a good ol’ pencil sharpener. He walks over to me, takes one look and says. “This is easier shirtless because dry cleaners ask questions about stains.” He starts tearing into my left thumb. Slowly chopping down, onto each finger. I was sweating so much that the aroma last nights Taco Bell was starting to fill the room. Unphased he says “Ya toes, hand ‘em over.” I stare into his eyes as he stares into mine. My eyes are filled with pleas for help, and his: lust. A lust which could not be satisfied by normal means. He demanded my toes again, but that were not satisfactory, for he wanted more. I had to get out, but I wanted to know more. My lust for knowledge grows ever greater with each passing second. Why was he doing this? Or rather why to me? I felt so helpless. I felt like I had been left alone in a sea or words, none of which I understand. Perhaps I had gotten lucky, being his choice, being chosen. I don’t know, maybe I’m just the crazy one. I stared where my toes once were. I guess he took them, my toes. I had handed them over, what else could he want? “I will now ask the question, What makes us ask questions?” He knew my question, for he had known it from the start.

[@ezequielcastellanos6919]

@@pafnutiytheartist wtf 😂

[@hairystyles180]

@@pafnutiytheartist i cant stop laughing at this. bravo 100/10

[@Yasi_nzi]

I had a panic attack

[@bradybronson4287]

@@pafnutiytheartist that was fucking beautiful

[@mohidtahir5340]

My worst nightmare would be me standing in a dark place when suddenly I hear "Hey Vsauce, Michael Here...How fast can you run?"

[@lonewolf711_]

Reminds me of a joke I made once where I ran at my friend and shouted “Hey, Vsauce, Michael here... how quick can I kill you?”

[@TempoChannel5]

I would listen to him explaining how fast i can run..

[@TempoChannel5]

Or can you

[@nomoretears_]

WWII is now older today than it was to the American Civil War back then.

[@l33g3ndar33]

@@nomoretears_ 😱🤯

[@paladin_bloodmoon1948]

I just realized, in the time travel segment of the video, if people in the past viewed their present as a continuation of their past, then that explains why they had a tendency to scrap things that we today would've tried to desperately preserve in a museum, so many old locomotives, tanks, and cars were never preserved other than by photograph, and I always wondered why that was, but now that I understand their worldview on the present, it makes sense now that actively preserving the past is as recent of a trend as it. thank you Michael, you open my eyes to so many things I had only wondered about in passing

[@Saint_Stives]

Can't say how many times I've had your channel recommended to me and just forgot to look it up but man this is an amazing rabbit hole of existentialism. Thanks for the good work bro

[@herrnachbar81]

Therapist: shaved michael isn't real, he can't hurt you Shaved Michael:

[@Johnnylemoni]

I just thought of that joke also does that mean that his sanity has been reset

[@nickclark1815]

Shaved Michael is real, but he isn’t now, he was then. He is no longer, but he once was.

[@jonnymoi]

So did Shaved Michael hurt you?

[@TenaciousP5k]

Don't worry, it's just Phil Collins

[@darrellcovello7917]

I don't like it, I DON'T LIKE IT

[@brapa1190]

This is like that meme "I'm 8" "okay that's fine" "I'm born on 2013" "Wait what wtf?"

[@usm1le]

That's mind blowing. People born in 2015 are now 6?????????

[@corenlavolpe6143]

I was 12 in 2013 and now I'm 19, the internet also helps with this time illusion. Like back then I remember having to use this USB stick to plug into our laptop and access the internet.

[@ck0187]

@@corenlavolpe6143 Same, who would said that 8 years have passed?

[@Bobo-wp2bw]

I feel old

[@handwriting8804]

I was 8 in 2013

[@nukepcr]

Normal youtuber edits: cut & zoom in Michael edits: cut & jump up into the frame like a summoned leprechaun

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

In my 60s, I not only feel as though time flies by, but I see the distant past and the future in a similar way. Now, a few hundred years, or even 1,000 years, does not seem that far away to me.

[@markstevenmorton]

Michael is ridiculously gifted at presenting and explaining. He's an educational treasure.

[@barrylongden7]

I find it hard going myself despite his knack of communicating ideas simply but I'd like to try and come to grips with this kind of thinking. It takes time for the new concepts to sink in and become familiar

[@Alkis05]

Not to mention his showmanship and artistic creativity.

[@cirea3932]

And how can he learn so much in so little time

[@2004helloWorld]

I like to think of michael as a modern day carl sagan, alan watts, bob ross.

[@DeanRiches]

no he is not

[@christophernettles4420]

POV: Psychotic Timetraveler shows you his sweater collection

[@MsCtef]

first

[@Ithenna]

Lol - I know, I couldn't help but notice how many times his sweater changed either! 😆

[@deltajee7_org]

Is it a pattern?..

[@hawaslianas]

Watching your videos brings me this feeling of visiting the past I used to watch translated videos of Vesaus before I was fluent in English when I was very young. the videos were editedly subtitled long before when KZbin didn't have captions or like and dislike, rather a 5 star rating systems. I have recently started re watching all your content and felt like 12 years old again. Very interesting to see you again keep going I love your content you had a great impact on my personality I wish this comment makes it to you

[@noahabry619]

Wow the audio in this one was stunning I'd love to see Michael make a museum, filled with objects both new and old, exiting stories, interesting facts, strange mental experiments and fascinating experiences. I'd especially love to have a room dedicated to these kinds of presentation, quick short bursts of content renewed monthly. Imagine getting completely immersed in one of these videos, in a dark room complete with high quality speakers, colored spotlights and a giant screen. That'd be an amazing experience for sure. Michael, please, at some point you gotta

[@typhoon2840]

Therapist: Beardless Michael isn’t real, he dosent exist Beardless Michael:

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Default Micheal Skin

[@TheZampa]

for me he is always beardless because it's been a while ago when i watched a alot more

[@charlievaughan7823]

Aaaahhhh

[@chmtech]

Ludopsychohyperchronoentropia - the distance in time between two consecutive Vsauce videos

[@cheem7807]

Here to steal a portion of the likes

[@rr18630]

@Shulk you have a permit for that license? 🤔

[@mycraft4370]

@Shulk You will never catch me alive!!!!

[@lazerblazer528]

Epic

[@HeRoisDreamin]

E

[@kylewit924]

Unbelievable. So much information, so well conveyed, and with so much passion. Vsauce, Michael, a real treasure for humanity!

[@Entropy67]

5:50 I like how that sort of implies that if you were stuck, immortal, in a 1000 year time gaol and you where conscious the entire time, the moment you got out and started experiencing things again, it would bee like a 1000 year time skip - you would think you where trapped for maybe a year? Maybe a couple months?

[@NmeticHeadTrip_1464]

I can definitely see that being the case

[@borbez]

Vsauce formula: "Hey! Vsauce, Michael here." • Seemingly irrelevant fact/thing • Big question • Meat of the video • Depressing conclusion • Uplifting and optimistic take by Michael Stevens "And as always, thanks for watching."

[@Pascal_Robert--Rc_Creations]

You forgot the "or is it" part

[@willkatching9219]

Its done folks. You never need to watch another Vsauce video again

[@LunarLander31]

Cue creepy questioning music

[@Madmole20]

I read “And as always, thanks for watching.” at the exact moment he said it in the video O-O

[@dj.matexx]

Now make the same for Vsauce2 and 3

[@SolarSands]

The return of the king.

[@kimsama5274]

hi

[@kimsama5274]

bye

[@kimsama5274]

or is it? que music

[@andyc9902]

Back

[@princetamrac1180]

Of course you also like Vsauce. You are one of my favourite channels :)

[@lonewolf711_]

This is exactly why I’ve been keeping entries in a journal every day for 2 years

[@wallisb17]

wow! so glad I found your channel - absolutely brilliant and thought provoking. thank you.

[@annimon2814]

“You watched a vsauce video?” “Yes” “What did it cost” “My existence”

[@nex8165]

Felt that

[@aidanabregov1412]

Cheers bro, I'll drink to that

[@Killuh87]

This is so true, you're basically watching a video that tells you watching a video makes you have less life

[@LeyvanA]

It costed to only remember this video for a week

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

Kid : I'm 10 years old Me : Oh cool, when were you born? Kid : 2011 Me : *w h a t*

[@someRandomNameHere]

I can relate

[@eeveegon]

My brother is going to be 10 this month

[@mint8648]

@@eeveegon e

[@EggShellGames]

69th like :)

[@lmao2059]

LMFAOO TRUE

[@lezbeehonest0294]

This explains why the first month of lockdown felt like it lasted 3 years but the subsequent 3 years lasted two weeks. Basically, March 2020 had active election drama, civil unrest at every turn, the beginnings of an economic downturn, _and_ no one had ever seen a global pandemic and its consequences. However, during the next few years, we had already seen normal life (even with the added politics and anger), so after such a cataclysmic shift, when our brains expected more novelty, and when it didn't get it, we just blasted through time like nothing new happened.

[@kingmatthme]

lol but fr though

[@rebeccaammon9072]

I know it’s stressful for people who adore you to yell “MORE” but we do need you. Your mind, voice and ability to capture even a fraction of it’s processing is absolutely beautiful . *Thank you for being, Michael*. I hope you continue to create.

[@Naxthural]

Beardless Michael doesn't exist. He can't hurt you. Beardless Michael:

[@borctree5481]

Bearded Michael WILL hurt you

[@Litepaw]

Scary

[@theprotato5628]

I had suddenly gotten scared as soon as he lost his beard

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Local beardless man educates 10,000,000 people with nostaliga

[@illestvillain1971]

I came to comment this... And one of the first I saw was this. I'm tripping rn ://

[@sUmEgIaMbRuS]

Holy hell, this _short short_ thing being described so accurately is *scary*

[@someonehere4380]

the short short is watching youtube with entertainment purposes and scrolling through Instagram.... man it makes time fly by but still we dont remember much

[@tonysoprano4883]

We can't seem to avoid the x short thing. Either it's long short or short short. We've just made it more comfortable to be bored.

[@davidzwitser]

@@tonysoprano4883 You can avoid long short or short short by learning to be stimulated more easily. Lower the amount of dopamine inducing stuff you do and try to extract interesting observations out of normally uninteresting seeming situations. That way you will not only be more observant and overal more excited, but you will also feel like you are doing something with your time.

[@jilliantroumouhis773]

I agree

[@jilliantroumouhis773]

this is kinda scary

[@user-tf3ye5fe4w]

I love the thought that future me is looking through this moment of me watching this video

[@mj8495]

I loved the thought in the past that i was looking through that moment of you watching the video and thinking my future me would probably not remember it 😊

[@DoNotFearTheReapa]

When VSauce pops up with a shirt adorned by cats hiding in a fern pot plant, your day just gets better.

[@caoimhinmccann4449]

Beardless Michael isn't real he can't hurt you. Beardless Michael:

[@Ashwagur]

You took my comment!

[@Mo_Real_Official]

Stfu

[@hanss7406]

@@Ashwagur bruh your comment is 19 hours ago while his comment is 1 day ago (1 day = 24 hours)

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

@@hanss7406 your*

[@user-yt8zk8pq7k]

@@Ashwagur it’s not like it’s original anyway... or funny either tbh

[@Marcelishim]

It’s funny because I was like “damn, 2016 was 5 years ago”

[@nathankeys6636]

Vsause hearted you ur so lucky

[@noahwilliams8996]

It's crazy. I still remember all the controversy from back then.

[@soapyguy6483]

Holy shit you got hearted

[@cw__]

I don't think i've ever seen a comment hearted on a vsauce video

[@carlbea]

lol

[@R463R]

That comment about _Semi-Charmed Life_ being as old as an Oldie Growing up hit me like a gut punch 🤜🏻 to the chest. Especially since I turn 40 in a week, and a doctor prescribed addiction to amphetamines to get me through this semi-charmed kind of life of living to work.

[@name1883]

growing up with no tv is way more weird than growing up without phones

[@MrStuff-xd3mt]

Plot Twist: This video took so long to upload because he had to grow his beard back.

[@lisweyt9619]

No he wrote down what to say then just clipped them in

[@probably_siyun]

@@lisweyt9619 yes

[@MrStuff-xd3mt]

@@lisweyt9619 That's possible but your theory still has holes in it.

[@EddieBurke]

I unironically do think this is the reason, that and because these videos take a fuckton of time to research and create

[@somerandomguy___]

I actually think that was the reason

[@jeremybasset9041]

My brain automatically read "1 year ago" I had to do a double take to realise this came out yesterday

[@tx2811]

ME TOO :D

[@lernit9925]

dude same, have we been tricked by youtube? or have our brains fooled us to believing this way. anyways it's a sign that we miss michaels video.

[@stefanoukios]

oh my gosh me too!

[@yuuri_]

appropriate for the subject of this video

[@stefanoukios]

@@yuuri_ most certainly!

[@cones8]

such an impactful use of word Vsauce, thank you for thinking a little bit more than the rest of us.

[@Jurskappe]

Im in 8th grade. I was in 4th when covid 19 started. And looking back 4th grade was the only year i did the worst in. I was just too emotionally distracted with friendships. But then in 5th when we were able to go back to school everything changed. Nothing significant ever happened in grade 5, 6, 7. But looking back on all years before 4th is so full and i can remember so many vivid memories from then. This is why the fact that the amount of time between grade 8 and 4 is the same as 4 and kindergarten blows my mind so much. Because nothing happened in 2020 and beyond. THIS is why i default to counting years only up to 2020

[@we-must-live]

hmm

[@gork2]

God that made me feel old.

[@mrbetabombs2017]

Some random person: Excuse me sir, what time is it? Michael:

[@reidschwartz1556]

😂😂

[@hwdp2558]

Lmao

[@mayonnaise2396]

“Now,”

[@mr.phoenix8691]

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[@andreyleonel255]

I like to imagine the Random Person crying during all this information and existential crisis

[@lolooo8509]

Michael without his beard is literally a cursed image

[@esketispaghetti3257]

I read your comment literally right before he lost his beard

[@cattail975]

he's probably going to make the video on that

[@esketispaghetti3257]

@@lolooo8509 it's a good comment 😂

[@bubblyproduction9809]

What has been seen, cannot be unseen

[@guywithnotaste]

Wow you described that so perfectly

[@edgymchairflip5741]

Thanks for the shoutout Michael, keep up the good work. With love, The Hoodwinkers

[@dannahbanana11235]

I wonder how that man would feel to know how significant his silly picture would be to some people hundreds of years later.

[@vidco2467]

Michael is definitely the protagonist of this universe , we are just NPCs

[@Valigarmanda]

more like he's that enigmatic supporting character who always just seems to know stuff when the protag is stuck in a rut.

[@plague_ace6843]

yep XD

[@pzgamerch]

I'm glad to be in his story if it's was the case

[@weiheng94]

I'm ok with that

[@futrey9353]

Or is he

[@LegoAnimations6370]

Ironically, this video itself is a great example of illusion of time. For an example, 30 minutes of studying boring subject feels like an eternity. 30 minutes of Michael explaining feels like a brief moment.

[@JDthegamer209]

That is very true.

[@couchpotato4082]

@@JDthegamer209 i disagree

[@PulseAlwaysEdits]

@@couchpotato4082 then it didnt catch your interest things that you are interested in usually feels quite brief like Michael said

[@iamsheel]

@@PulseAlwaysEdits its interesting. But it felt like 50 minutes to me

[@PulseAlwaysEdits]

@@iamsheel yeah time is relative, but same thing applies

[@miikael123able]

Gotta appreciate this man, making content you can rewatch over and over again💙

[@glenncurrie9826]

I'm watching this in response to realising I can't imagine or recall memories in motion, it's one of the scariest things realising what you understand isn't what everyone else sees as 'standard'

[@we-must-live]

so how much of your memories do you remember?

[@avivatar5288]

Mom: Beardless Michael isn’t real. He can’t hurt you. Beardless Michael:

[@Cruscker]

*intense screaming continues*

[@-muthana-]

Oh no....... @Aviv Atar lets also not forget the fact we have the same pfp

[@avivatar5288]

@@-muthana- That work life. Gotta keep yourself (mostly) anonymous online XD

[@sambhav6385]

Beardless Michael is the most terrifying thing I have ever seen.

[@enjoystudying4106]

Hahahahahahah

[@mrbroke7986]

Damn i was gonna comment that xd

[@doctora.snakeman1427]

I agree

[@somanymike]

200th like

[@thegreath.sapiensapien6907]

i start to hate v sauce look like a jerk

[@loufancelli1330]

Being in my 50s now I am just amazed at how much time has passed between events I clearly remember and now. For example I was recently looking at a photo album and saw a photo of myself sitting on a pedal car that I got for Christmas one year. I rode that thing around seemingly forever, and when I saw the date - well let's just say it was good I was sitting down because I got that car for Christmas 1973, which means it was closing in on 50! years.

[@ModernRascal]

Man, every time I come back around to Michael greeting the channel, I just spend a few days smiling. Always brings me a little mood boost, and something interesting to think about.

[@bhadreshsoni2160]

Someone: What time is it? Michael: It's now..or is it?

[@edenwirose]

Someone: How do clocks work? Michael: NOTIHNG IS TEMPORARY EVERYTHING IS ETERNAL YOU ARE AFRAID TO DIE AND ARE PAST DUE TO CALL YOUR MOTHER AND TELL HER YOU LOVE HER

[@AleK0451]

technically the time it takes for light to get to your eyes means everything you see is a few nanoseconds in the past, longer periods of time the further away it is, most noticeable when you look at things in space and you're basically seeing what stars were doing who knows how many years ago so no, the time is not now

[@AgingPurse]

dammit someone bet me to my joke seriously tho good joke man

[@mandud987]

"It is 7 o'clock... but what IS 7?" *music starts*

[@Wuselol]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5Xapmefi6Zkr9E

[@YoursTrulyMrsMoores]

I remember sitting down to watch this video thinking "wow, a half hour?", and then, just like that Michael is saying "and as always. Thanks for watching". Yeah, time is strange.

[@datjap8883]

Samee

[@senmetwo42]

... Or is it? Lol jk it is.

[@GetFunnied]

when you are interested in a subject ur brain collects more information than normal when so time speeds up

[@dtraveler3080]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4XQgXeHi5t3kKM

[@alricktostig]

I see Michael and I click, I don't even see the time.

[@lynnharper308]

You never mentioned this, or anything like it, but time feels like it passed by even faster when you think about something fun you did with a loved one who has passed away.

[@TURBO_SPUD5]

The last three segments starting from chrono saunder, scared me. I understood it too well. I thought there’s something wrong with me. I also thought i was the only one in my family to have this perspective. Until i found this video. From my experience realistically, time flys when you’re filling up space in isolation or your perception that it went by quick because too much has happened in that period of time. When you count the years let’s say 2017 to 2023. Wow that’s old already once you count the years. Wow the video i’m commenting on right now is already 2 years ago. When you feel time flys, that’s you reflecting on how much has changed. Therefore, giving you that illusion that the older you are it feels as if you know everything too well about understanding things that it becomes boring. As a child i didn’t knew much about the world. So i still remember things vividly from an adult brain, but barely from remembering back when i was 5-8 years old. As i had a conversation with my sister of what i remember when i was little lol. But these memories they were abstract and small details. I notice as an adult, it’s harder to remember things recently like a month ago or even yesterday lol. What i notice about time? When i had yard work at the new house. It was insane labor and we dug holes to fill them up with concrete. To make a patio and a deck for our backyard. That whole entire day felt long and i enjoyed staying there at the new house. But i notice something that scares me. When you fill up time with contemporary distractions. You get the illusion that social media or technology makes it seem like time flies or when you watch an old video it feels and looks old as heck. Not until they smile or it brings colors. Then it feels timeless. Me (22) “i remember in Feb 2019 i went camping with my family!”Someone i had a conversation with, (15) “wow that’s old i bet it was fun” Me: “To me that’s not old but for you yes because you were younger.” The perspectives with age are different. perceiving time with numbers of it feeling not that long ago. My experience and takeaway, don’t use social media too much. Do a lot of work or something productive. Time goes by slow that way. And lastly, live in the present. Everything you do will be nostalgia in the future. If you found this thanks for reading btw. Just my experience.

[@el3aleyle]

How the fuck does he keep outdoing himself?!

[@dynamid4540]

I literally don't know, he's far scarier than a shounen protagonist in this regard

[@feister2869]

Dynam Id shounen protagonists were scary?

[@willo7734]

He keeps getting better and better

[@Joseph-wz4bb]

@@willo7734 Too boring stopped watching.

[@benneb663]

time

[@aysdowne6358]

okay 2021 seems to start right. Michael remembered his KZbin password

[@lightsab4675]

Except the riots, things seem to be going okay

[@TheSpecificOcean.]

maybe not for carson, but other than that things are fine

[@Jack29151]

for the first time ever, a confederate flag flew inside the United States capitol, we started this year off right! :D

[@starry_lis]

@@lightsab4675 look on the bright side: those who don't like America rejoice.

[@dakotadad8835]

@@starry_lis if America collapses many other countries will too, then the CCP takes over the globe...that’s far worse for everyone, far worse, considering they currently operate concentration camps which house millions and are full on authoritarian

[@hypergamer2727]

I always have felt saunder. I can feel it if I wanted to or just make it the way my brain normally intended it to. But chronosaunder is something which I have never thought of. Like imagine feeling like every person who ever lived was like a protagonist in the story of time. His vids make me question life

[@mpregsonic5874]

This is why mindfulness meditation is so powerful for many people. Yes it takes time to practice it and start feeling the positive effects but in return someone meditating will perceive the new mindful world they live in at a slower rate.

[@EggsBenedicts]

This man shaved his entire beard for 1 gag that lasted a couple of seconds... then waited +100 days to continue the video What a chad

[@kristoffersvik7564]

He shaved as part of a campaign to get people to vote in the election. Probably made this intro early to get the most out of it lmao

[@freindmaker4473]

@Mawablem christ i forgot how cancer youtube comments are

[@InShortSight]

This why we dont get Vsauce more often. It's worth it.

[@dorito_dog]

@@VibezVideo he didn't though. He posted on his KZbin story that he shaved his beard like 3 months ago. He even said that he shaved his beard 130 days ago.

[@DolanDarker]

Your beard growing skills are unmatched

[@fahmiakbar1454]

Ah good ol' Dolan Dark :)

[@piyushudhao8683]

how do you feel about the fact that the memes you make now, will someday be an "old people" thing, a day and age where "memes" will be associated to the people of the past, and your content will be used to study these "memes" in "schools"? Imagine some future kid saying, "Jeez i hate dolan dark's memes, they ask so hard questions on it and i can't relate to any of them". Chilling.

[@astrending]

Pog

[@harrybadass8228]

Beardie

[@ductranviet893]

Lmao bruh:)

[@SamHammie]

Teenagers now could feasibly sit in their room wearing heelies, listening to early Linkin Park music on an iPod Shuffle while they text friends from a refurbished flip phone, saying they feel like they were born in the wrong decade, and that concept genuinely scares me, since I did the same with spiked hair, Daft Punk on a walkman, and a landline phone, wishing I was born in the 1980's.

[@KITT.007]

Whenever I have summer breaks or just a very long break, I think of time and realize, time set for different reasons and occasions isn’t gonna be that important, nor memorable. Because: After completing “goals” like school, work, relationships, getting money to a place to live..you’ll just sit there, in a timeless space and probably wonder if everything that you ever did in your life, was worth it. Sooner or later you die but never know when, until you feel your soul slowly leaving the body. Like A vehicle, that finally shuts down. (So try to enjoy it, and never stop fighting. Enjoy whatever little detail of the life you have left on this earth, and don’t abandon your body just yet.) - There is more, but you’ll never know it if you don’t take the chance.

[@ryanmatson8078]

Michael is a master of bringing you to the brink of existential crisis, and then pulling you back just far enough so that you've gained wisdom

[@henrycavalierkingcharlessp6064]

Your name is wisdom, mr “son”

[@theredbird5407]

This is why I watch the entire video.

[@thegamerator10]

Beardless Michael is the most cursed thing I’ve ever seen.

[@arsalali69]

Lol

[@timothyhubert2305]

wait, it's not Phil Collins?

[@leporello7]

Beardless Michael is basically Rodney McKay.

[@rita25y.o-checkmyvideo27]

გ5

[@karma6628]

@UCC-6pdcazyIEAz9q7ejBBsQ i checked ur profile now whats ur room number

[@imtired5705]

Bro knows how to make me keep watching his videos. An existential crisis

[@isaiah_5896]

If my teachers were like Vsauce I would learn about these topics all day I love this

[@eelkezuidhoek3865]

At last, *He* has returned to enlighten humanity once again

[@papakilo-2750]

they/them people has entered the chat

[@catyasna12]

@@papakilo-2750 what does that have to do with anything

[@bushy2.018]

King

[@colbiebergeron3322]

@@catyasna12 it’s a joke. It’s meant to mock something

[@tsuhohuang2240]

He was waiting for his beard to grow back

[@staainless]

False, Michael was never born. He just “appeared” one day fully dressed with a fully-grown beard

[@ViratKohli-jj3wj]

Sounds cool

[@SC-zq6cu]

And his first words were "Hey Vsauce, Michael here".

[@usernametaken7738]

@@SC-zq6cu “I am human... or am I”

[@chillyroom8159]

I love how Micheal is talking about temporal illusion in the time that everyone had it because of the flying years that seem to go by fast,smart from you micheal bravo.

[@splifka3575]

I don't know if this video makes me want to live longer or die right now..

[@bleepblo]

Both..

[@spencerhart2480]

Doctor: "Your baby boy is beautiful." Michael, fresh out of the womb: "But first, what IS beautiful?"

[@awdamnherewegoagain]

nah, more like "Hey Doctor, Michael here"

[@Qaptyl]

**parents suffer stroke**

[@carlosandleon]

He was born with a full beard

[@joeg5414]

Baby and boy should never be used together. That baby hasn't had a chance to choose it's gender

[@altar8010]

No its has to be *Why things beautiful*