Which of these TWO ways do you perceive time?

[@jdwright89]

I just asked my husband and he said “I would ask for clarifications for the exact time.”

[@carlosizquierdo1939]

Good man

[@ECM24]

same

[@ibrahim_-_-_]

Smart man

[@savvivixen8490]

He must've been through this ALOT

[@queenthoria7483]

My dad said the exact same thing lol

[@StudywithMilya]

I laughed wayy to hard at that one Tiktok comment who said “anyone who thinks it’s 10am is a flat earther”

[@Counter-Intuitive]

Flat-earthers = Mouth-breathers

[@ianpaulmarolifemattdelagar370]

Good one

[@BeTheChange99]

Such a 2pm person thing to say

[@hughjecoque3515]

So flat earth is correct now?

[@Bucketheadhead]

Hugh Jecoque Well we do perceive that the Earth is flat :)

[@nezavipavc172]

For anyone struggling to understand the other side: - 10am: 'moved forward' as in moved closer to you, like if a person was facing you, you would tell them to move forward = come closer -2pm: 'moved forward' as in moved towards the future, so away from you, like if a person was facing the same way as you, you would tell them to move forward = go away Hope this helped :)

[@fallon-grey5896]

This did help thank you!

[@rosearachnid879]

Thanks, this did help! I'm still firmly on the ego-moving side though, lol

[@asingleshot7]

The meeting was pushed back two hours. That's my preferred phrasing and made the whole video baffling

[@blackkittycat15]

@ I did the exact opposite. I originally thought 10am as in forward = sooner, but then I realized if you go forward as in clockwise, it would be 2pm.

[@ObiJakobe]

It's the wording. If someone said the meeting has been moved back you would think that it will happen later rather than sooner. But if you say it has been moved forward then you would infer that the meeting was prioritized more making it 2 hours sooner But without context, the meeting movED forward by 2 hours could mean: The meeting IS movING forward by 2 hours AFTER noon.

[@yasamin427]

This reminded me of the movie The Arrival. It's incredible how language could affect our perception of time.

[@yumnarashid1519]

Hey.. I invite you to my KZbin channel 😊 I hope you like it.

[@ellamyntr3acha348]

it really is incredible!!

[@donovantownshend8783]

those theories have been proven entirely false

[@FuzzyMonkey95]

I said 2pm, but then I thought about the terms “pushed back” and “moved forward” and I could see it both ways. I’ve experienced these terms used both ways but never really thought about it. So now I’m just severely confused and don’t know what to think...

[@guillaumebouramia9041]

Same u read my mind

[@NatureLover-pj2qe]

Same

[@samanthastoker7084]

I'm a 2 pm person, but this just tripped me up so hard because I realized that I initially see both phrases as meaning the same thing (later in the day). Now I'm questioning if my brain is broken and my whole perception of time lol

[@the1barbarian781]

In both scenarios I would say 2PM anyone else?

[@chrismcghee4867]

Same. There is no phrasing I can think of which does not indicate the direction in time, vs direction in space, which would make me think the meeting would be earlier. If you were to say “has been moved back” or “has been moved forward” both directions mean “later” to me. Thinking on it deeper, I intuitively think that both imply a “pushing” motion, pushing the event away from me. Where if you explicitly said “has been pulled back” or “has been pulled forward” I would think “earlier”. Wild.

[@alarcon99]

Broke: “is the dress blue/black or gold/white?” Woke: “Is the meeting at 10am or 2pm?”

[@acharich]

🙃🙃🙃

[@snowyy6137]

Pls help me understand what you mean by broke and woke

[@darknessduke000]

Kraig?

[@corn-is-everywhere4052]

I see blue and gold

[@redpaw40]

@@corn-is-everywhere4052 really, i see blue and light brown.

[@andrewparker500]

For example, everyone says “Christmas is coming” not “we’re getting to Christmas”.

[@nowandaround312]

That's just a phrase. I say "Christmas is coming" and have the ego-moving perspective that I'm moving through time to reach it

[@beaclaster]

"Relativity"

[@XxKINGatLIFExX]

Winter Is Coming

[@rozygcf6611]

I've heard really eager people say, "we're getting so close to Christmas!" Before.

[@MeowmeowAlexandra]

People don't say "We're getting to Christmas" because that's not proper English.

[@madssaucexx5250]

My initial thought was 2pm, then I thought about it. If it was "pushed back" instead of "moved forward" I would think 2pm... So now I'm just confused and don't know where I stand 😂

[@girlofanimation]

Same. I thought 2pm, initially, until I looked at the wording again. Moved forward sounds like it was moved towards an earlier time, so now I keep thinking 10am and can't re-associate myself with the 2pm crowd.

[@emmam9932]

I did the same thing, I feel like it’s because I can’t imagine having a meeting happening earlier than scheduled, they always get pushed later

[@Bridiebxx]

I feel exactly the same

[@mayam.235]

The clock goes forward clockwise.

[@Deeomi]

thank you I was so sure of my answer before .. now I don't know either 😅

[@OsirisMalkovich]

Anyone who says “the noon meeting is moved forward two hours” should be fired for not being able to communicate effectively. Just say what time the meeting is like a decent person.

[@inediblearrangement]

They should also be fired for causing unnecessary emotional distress in the workplace.

[@Dinkyfish666]

But if you didn’t realise anyone else perceived time differently then you wouldn’t be knowingly confusing people. I’m in #team10am and I really struggle to comprehend how anyone would have thought otherwise

[@danieloh1075]

G Wednesday’s NOON meeting has been moved FORWARD by 2 hours. FORWARD meaning it was moved to a time AFTER noon... thats my perception

[@baqcasanke]

😂😂😂

[@yoursevershahriza1494]

You are the one I am searching

[@xCM3Lx]

Similar topic, I have consistently had professors who say something like "the assignment is due by midnight June 27th" and the whole class will be confused as to whether that means June 26th 11:59:59PM or June 27th 11:59:59PM because people's perception of whether midnight is the latest point of the day or the earliest point of the day is different. This is generally solved by professors saying the assignment is instead due by 11:59PM of whatever day but the ambiguity of the topic always fascinated me

[@moth.03]

My brother and I had an argument over this! I said midnight Friday and he thought I meant a minute after 11:59 pm on Friday but I meant a minute before 00:01 am on Friday. He got very annoyed at me.

[@SMFortissimo]

I’ve had the exact same issue

[@cindygiesbrecht3146]

I always thought it was mean of the schools to do this!! Why make it at midnight when the prof is totally sleeping then. It should be 3 hours before whenever the next class is scheduled.

[@jillfanning749]

Ohhh. That’s why they do that!

[@Ryan-ee5lp]

I mean, logically, midnight June 27 is 12 am. So, the night of June 26. But if you look at it in sleep cycles, the nights is still part of the June 26.

[@fearlesscrusader]

This was right on time for me. I had just called my doctor's office and told them that I needed my appointment to be moved back two weeks, and the nurse thought I meant that I wanted it moved forward two weeks. The more we talked about it, the more confused we both became, until I finally told her what date I wanted to reschedule it. I couldn't understand her confusion until I saw this video.

[@sophieparker2027]

Saying “the meeting has been moved 𝐹𝑂𝑅𝑊𝐴𝑅𝐷 two hours” made me think 2pm. But if “the meeting has been moved 𝑈𝑃 two hours” had been said, I would have thought 10am.

[@mollylastname5647]

Agreed

[@squeaky1963]

"is the meeting at 10am or 2pm?" Me: Idk I'll be late either way

[@gazelle510]

My man!

[@ender4344]

I will arrive half an hour late anyway lol

[@codemiesterbeats]

I saw a license plate on a car near me that gave me a chuckle, it said "USULYL8"

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

👍👍👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣☕☕ me toooooooo

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

@@codemiesterbeats late is the new "ontime" .lol. im lucky if I get the day correct! Its not Wednesday or Friday..it's -This day,the other day ..in a few days.. a couple of days ago...lol

[@KeyushTheStuntDog]

With the "meeting" example it's just down to your use of the word "forward", wether you read it as meaning continuing on from the current time. Or if you read it to mean coming sooner than the current time, as the word can be used for both. I see both, I first read it as meaning 2pm, but then after rereading it in a different context I read it as 10am. But both are possible.

[@katzenlady5339]

I had the same thoughts about that. I'm not a native speaker, so I was wondering which of these two meanings the 'forward' has in the context of time. If I'm interpreting it the way I would in my mother tongue I would say 10 am but the way I interpretate English I would say 2 pm and than I've been totally lost 😄

[@pinkred22]

Yes! Thank you!

[@ITxMik]

This comment saved me, I was freaking out for a hot minute (I'm not a native speaker of English). I got it when the sentence "I'm looking forward to meet you" popped into my mind. That helped me making sense of this other interpretation of the word "forward" as in _sooner_ instead of later (which, still, is the one that makes most sense to me).

[@professional.commentator]

I had this exact dilemma back in high school and college but instead of the word forward it was back and the teacher would be like we are moving this due date back. And I'm thinking back which way, further into the future or a sooner date.

[@cookiekat0309]

:0 I watch ur vids!

[@averyhungrycrocodile3635]

Noon = 12 AM “Moved Forward” Forward = Well, Forwards. Forward = + +2 hours past noon. 2pm.

[@ssa-4460]

This is the only correct answer

[@trillcarro]

Tellin Time for dummies 😅😅

[@nadim2911]

@@katherineguevara4430 Huh? Original Meeting: 12 PM Move *Forward* by 2 Hours: 2 PM

[@katherineguevara4430]

@@nadim2911 no noon has been moved forward, not the meeting

[@nadim2911]

@@katherineguevara4430 It's says “noon meeting”. Meaning “12:00 meeting”, had been moved forward by 2 hours.

[@creator2909]

A late comment, but I just wanted to say that in Chinese language, we have a very clear cut difference with the words 前, meaning forward in this context, and 后, meaning backwards in this context as well. We say 前天, which means the day before yesterday, and 后天, as the day after tomorrow. So my family uses forward to say that time has became earlier and then use backwards to say that time has become later. (The English in this sentence isn't really correct but it took the least amount of work to type out and be understood rather than misunderstood.) When I saw this question, I thought immediately of 10am. However, when watching movies and scrubbing through the timeline (I think I used an animation term for movies, which is not the best fit) I say 前 for scrubbing to the end, basically moving forwards, and 后, for moving backwards- getting back o the start. Not many people may see this comment, but if you do, my main point is: we might have different perceptions of time based on the situation and unit of it.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

No offense but you people haven’t even figured out how a fork works in 5000 years.

[@buchelaruzit]

well that makes sense since here the confusion is because the word "forward" is ambiguous. but 前 and 后 specifically mean before and after. if you said "before" or "after" in the english sentence instead of "forward" everyone would interpret it the same way.

[@phishfullofasha]

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

[@CaroAlbahaca]

Just one more till 42

[@roobixhube]

Well done, have a cookie!

[@Bananna219]

I really really wanted them to say that quote when it came up! I felt very let down. Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity.

[@Froggyx]

Umm...no Albert Einstein said that 😒

[@scallywag1716]

When people say “next Friday” and they mean this coming Friday. It drives me insane because “”next Friday” is not this coming Friday, it is the next coming Friday. But I can see the difference in understanding, it just annoys me.

[@Bexyboo88]

So funny, I feel the same, but I constantly have to clarify what I mean by saying "... it's next Friday, so, not this Friday, the one after" haha!

[@mbrown6658]

I do the same! My fiance gets so frustrated because he says "next Friday" meaning this coming one. His argument is always "well it is technically the next Friday that will happen". I think of it like you would with a week, if it is in "this week" then it is "this Friday" or "this Thursday" or whatever but if it is in the next week then it is next Friday. I'm glad I'm not the only one!!

[@OpGamerBruh]

"This Friday" or Friday. Next Friday = 2 Fridays from now unless the day is Friday when 'next Friday' is uttered. Then it would only be the upcoming Friday.

[@kittybeans8192]

Okay I'll bite, what does next Friday mean, and what does this coming Friday mean? Let's say it's Monday, 1st of the month now, and you tell me there's a party next Friday, and a meeting this coming Friday. Which days of the month are the meeting and party?

[@za6604]

Yeah, same! You should say this Friday for the coming Friday and next Friday for next week.

[@mirrorcity4872]

“Time is an illusion and so is death” That one guy from avatar the last airbender

[@heee302]

:)

[@katmatally]

This is so interesting! I've always thought people should just leave out "forward" or "backward" when they speak of changing a time. "The meeting has been moved to [time]" is much less confusing. I'd be interested to know which group of people tends to be late and which tends to be early for events.

[@jamesfavell1731]

Personally, I thought. "Oh, it's 2:00 PM." But then I thought "Oh, crap. Moving forward would mean it's sooner, so it's 10:00 AM." So... I guess I'm an ego-moving person who has adapted to time-moving people. Or something like that.

[@imaniware4944]

I had the same thought. In professional settings, moved forward has always meant an earlier time in my experience. I wonder if it differs on what country's English you are referring to? I think in the US there is an accepted standard of what this means.

[@LaurenMilla]

I did something similar. I thought 2pm at first but then used the opposite language, if I heard the meeting was pushed back 2 hours, that makes me think it's further away and thus came to the conclusion that forward means 10am even though I kind of think 2pm instinctually

[@Meonium]

@@LaurenMilla Nice way of thinking.

[@ethanmarch2478]

I had the same reaction too. Thought it was 2pm and how can it be anything different, but then thought about it longer and figured that it could be both.

[@blubab89]

Exactly how I thought as well after reading a few comments... now I feel like I’m stuck in between these two categories

[@madisonlane5169]

this is so shocking to me i have ego moving perspective and I can’t imagine not seeing time this way WOW

[@sm92127]

Same!! I don't understand

[@appleslover]

@@Chris-rg6nm exactly

[@islarf5095]

Vegeta is definitely Ego moving perspective.

[@mindlander]

It's shocking to me you so readily accept this analysis.

[@deleriousdinosaur3205]

@@Chris-rg6nm that is so dumb

[@ABcdefgI143]

lmao I'm the third one: confused because I've never heard the phrase "moves forward by xxx hrs" only earlier or later ;-;

[@Call-me-Al]

Sane people use earlier and later. Forward and back is dumb as heck

[@aquaintsound]

It's interesting that with the "holidays coming to you" or "getting to the holidays" my brain completely switches camps

[@newtscamander2461]

I really couldn’t understand the illustration, so for anyone else confused: within the phrase “the meeting has been moved forward” The difference is forward meaning “closer to now” vs meaning “further in the day”

[@mooneater1905]

Newt Scamander OMG YOU MADE IT MAKE SENCE LIKE YOU MEAN THE MEETING IS CLOSER TO NOW! I THOUGHT IT WAS 2 PM BUT NOW I THINK BOTH THANKS SO MUCH 🥰🥰🥰

[@NikolaiRubanovskii]

English is my second language and for me it waa obviously 2 pm, but when you explained, I now understand there are more implications for the word "forward" than I learned. Very cool!

[@H0n3yMonstah]

Yes, it means bring it closer to you, have it earlier, if something is moving forward slowly and you decide to physically push it forward to make it move faster, it means you want it to get to the destination sooner. Same with a meeting, if you want to bring it forward then you want to have it sooner, not later.

[@x.ravenclawgirl.x4331]

1. I like your Name! 2. English is a foreign language for me (I'm German) and I'd translate "The meeting is moving forward" as "Das Treffen wird vor verlegt" which I think obviously means earlier for every German (for me at least, I could be wrong and just think it's obvious when it actually isn't). And as I'd translate the English sentence like this, I'd definitely think, the meeting would be at 10 am. But it could just be kinda a mistranslation as well.

[@catinheadphones5493]

Oooohhhh thank you!!

[@BigaChigaFliga]

When I hear that the meeting was "moved forward" two hours, I think that it's going to be at 2pm, but if it were "moved back" two hours, I would also think that it's at 2pm, so I think my time perspective might just be avoidant 😅

[@chapterrv]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lucaslahlum6331]

Let’s be honest, who wants to go to a meeting. 😂

[@JustRaine13]

Crammers unite!

[@katiemair920]

omg saameeee!! i was like moved forwarded - 2pm... moved back - also 2pm. moved UP - 10am 😂

[@lightwire123]

Moved down to 2pm

[@marzipan__]

When I think about an event I am dreading, I still feel like I'm in the ego-perception group, but it feels more like a rollercoaster where you're moving towards the scary part but you can't stop lol

[@SarahMaywalt]

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -- Ford Prefect

[@terdsie]

I love Greg's trying-to-process face. He's concentrating so hard.

[@coolinfrost8982]

Yep thats cute

[@00thebish]

I have consistently heard “moved forward” used to mean moved to an earlier time (forward in your day), and “pushed back” to mean pushed to a later time in the day.

[@hash2718]

This made me understand the other perspective and this actually makes a good amount of sense

[@danielacaballero5141]

Yes! Thats the only way I can think about this !

[@Kabbinj]

I am in the 10 AM group, but how does "forward in your day" mean earlier exactly? Also, for the ones that answered 2 PM, does moving forward and pushed back mean the same thing, or does pushed back mean earlier?

[@iceboxmetalfreak]

@@Kabbinj See it as in before the 12 so 2pm would be after

[@Meonium]

I mean, in all my life pushed forward means earlier and pushed back means the opposite. I wonder what those people who think pushed forward is the same as pushed back way of thinking...

[@asher3262]

It’s 10am. The reason to this is, ask yourself this question but in this way”the meeting has been pushed back by 2 hours” you can’t push a meeting back 2 hours and have it end up at 10am it can only be 2pm. Which means when the meeting is pushed forward by 2 hours 10am is the answer

[@marku.9644]

But one of the meanings of ‘forward’ n the Oxford Dictionary is related to the future. And since 12 pm is the reference point in time, then forward means the future. So it’s 2 pm. This is how we objectively measure time.

[@kkiller1438]

Think of the hourhand of a clock, "move forward" means to _move forward_ that hourhand of the clock by 2 hours. Therefore it's 2 pm. Q.E.D.

[@Markedlywastaken]

When I finished watching this video and checked the clock in my living room the hands were at 10 and 2. 10:10am.

[@ItsJustJara]

It's a sign

[@freelancer42]

"Do you now think that it's at 2pm or at 10am?" I think I'm definitely gonna miss that meeting....

[@RandiPoitras]

There’s no right or wrong answer.... until you’ve missed the meeting entirely 🙃😂

[@scorpiorising_]

😁😁😁

[@SirSpiro]

"time is an illusion" Vsauce in his newest video: y e s

[@mastershooter64]

also, I weirdly can understand both perspectives of perception of time even though I have an ego-moving perspective of time

[@TertiaryQuota]

Same even tho it took me a while to understand

[@BirdsAndWhales]

same! I think day to day life feels ego-moving to me but things such as seasons and holidays feel time-moving

[@Scribbby]

2015: White & Gold Dress vs. Black & Blue Dress 2016: Shiny Legs vs. White Paint on Legs 2018: Yanny vs. Laurel 2020: 10AM vs 2PM The world is always trying to divide us even though we're already doing it ourselves.

[@johnappleseed3428]

am i the only one who sees blue and gold?

[@Carla-ou2yb]

The dress thing was 5 years ago? Uugh time moves soo fast

[@pikmin36]

Blue, shiny, laurel, 2PM. Too easy 😏😋

[@asciishallreceive3871]

2021 Extinct vs Evolved

[@Scribbby]

All the ones on the right are the right ones. And no, I'm not right-wing conservative.

[@Kayvon12321]

When I hear the noon meeting was moved forward by 2 hours, I think 2pm. But if someone says the noon meeting was moved up by 2 hours, I think 10am.

[@ariesmry]

Kayvon12321 I agree. Not done with the video, but I think it’s a matter of semantics

[@nicolehughes7863]

Same, also if you day moved back 2 hours I think 2pm also

[@Alkoholwioslaidziwki]

I think forward/backward is based on your experience of time, while up/down is based on the way we read and write. If there is/was a culture that read starting from the bottom, they would probably hold the opposite view.

[@HelloHamburger]

@@Alkoholwioslaidziwki So Arabic, Egyptian, and Ancient Japanese?

[@alyssachantaychampagne2773]

I think that because of planners. If the planner is horizontal, I'd say forward is later. If the planner is vertical I'd say up is earlier.

[@LPSWeirdCow13]

When you say "that happened way *ahead* of this" it happened before.

[@RabiyyahBadruddin]

I absolutely love this discussion, not only for its linguistic syntax and the English language but also for its holographic reality in physics. I love the fact that you guys see it as a relationship oriented diffusion and occlusion of gravitational time space assessments in the now! I do believe I initially answer the question of getting to the end of the year with a friend of mine before I saw this. She responded "yeah it's coming fast,"👌 to which I had to counter "well I can't wait till I get to that point in 2020 it'll finally be over.” it occurred to me we might be having a Virginia wolf-ish conversation, but I did think about the holographic universe and 0 point time in relationship this year. And our perception of how we physically communicate with these concepts, occurred to me later on. So I really appreciate you following up with this construct that had been rattling around in the back of my mind for weeks.

[@snowingbook]

"There are actually two ways in which we English speaking humans percieve time" People who speak other languages: ''i dont have such weaknesses''

[@KevAlberta]

Hahaha hahaha that was funny

[@Black3ight]

But most people with other languages speak english too, it's common tongue.

[@kellyramirez781]

@@Black3ight yes but if you speak another language then my guess is you have a lot of different perceptions about a lot of different things. for example: i'm a native spanish speaker (colombian) but have been in a heavily english-speaking atmosphere (international schools) for over a decade. i pretty much think in english at this point. but as soon as i heard his question, i thought to myself "that's so vague, i've seen it be used in both ways", so that completely contradicts this whole "one or the other" theory

[@olgaperez4705]

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I think it's at 2 pm in English but if translated to Spanish, it's obviously at 10???? anyone else bilingual/multilingual that perceives time different on different languages???

[@unoriginal1086]

@@olgaperez4705 I think its that the language translated is more direct, and like in spanish maybe it is different language and more obvious. I think your brain sees it the same way, but in spanish when translated the question slightly changes and makes one answer much more obvious.

[@penelopemavreeny6932]

Me: "Wednesday's noon meeting has been moved forward by 2 hours. What time is the meeting now?" My Dad: "4 pm" Me: -_-

[@beccanull7758]

Wow

[@brenzikmohaa]

You never mentioned the real time of the meeting. So yeah, your dads got a point.

[@Zico20]

Pratik Cankles you are even worse than her dad because you had time to think about that stupid answer.

[@shanemorris3554]

My step dad has his own time like this

[@psychott6]

KJG Noon is 12

[@kadecorbett6745]

When I was a kid I definitely said things like "I can't wait for Christmas to be here!" Lol

[@menomama3419]

I stumbled onto your sight tonight and I'd like to say that I really, really get a kick outta the POV'S you share! Thanks for the effort into the quality! You both have charisma, I love it!

[@Housewarmin]

I see how “move Forward” can be perceived as the meeting moving ahead in time Or moving earlier in the day. I think of “forward in time” and any time after the one you’re speaking about.

[@tiffanyt.3307]

Yep :p

[@Tatsebmaki]

Interesting. I think earlier (10am) because moving it forward means moving closer to the front, which is the beginning of the day.

[@chadamonkey5641]

The specific language of the statement is key here: "moved up" could mean moved ahead in time (2pm) or moved ahead on the schedule (10am). To me it's just ambiguous phrasing, not "different perceptions of time".

[@nataniatracy5042]

Thank you for this comment! I've just been sitting here dumbfounded as to how it could be seen the other way. Thank you for having the smarts that I don't haha

[@lavendertears1814]

@@Tatsebmaki Forward is defined as the direction that one is facing of travelling; towards the front. It would make more sense for time to go forward in a clockwise manner since in our concept of time, time is forward-facing clockwise; it is odd to assume that time will turn anticlockwise to forward-face you instead.

[@JaxBlade]

I personally think its White & Gold

[@esteban_osman]

No

[@delfina7481]

its definitely yanny

[@zirrnorseman8068]

Two of my favorite channels in the same spot. I love it

[@ayushn9078]

You all are wrong ....it is 5 am

[@007meow]

No blue and black

[@familywilliams4058]

This is interesting to me, because my first thought when encountering the phrase "the meeting has been moved forward" was that it was at 2pm, but I can definitely see how someone could see it as being at 10am instead. Upon thinking about it more, I found myself analyzing how I would react to related phrases. If someone told me "the meeting has been moved up" I would think the meeting was at 10am. If told "the meeting has been moved back" I would think 2pm. Thinking on my conundrum further, I realized that most of the time I've heard someone talking about moving a specific event closer, they have been talking about making the event sooner, exe. "we moved the wedding forward from the 12th to the 10th" whereas if they go the other way, I hear them saying "we've pushed the wedding back from the 13th to the 14th" and this makes total sense to me, which is likely why I associate "moved back" with a later time. I wonder if it was because we were dealing with hours that my first reaction was opposite to this, and I wonder if it's because while I was growing up, I was taught "spring forward" and "fall back" to know how to adjust my clocks for daylight savings time. In the spring, I "spring forward" by adding an hour to the clocks, and I "fall back" by subtracting an hour from them. If this is true though, then I wonder why I associate "fall back" with subtracting hours, and "pushed back" with adding them. If anyone has any thoughts as to why I might think this way, please share them with me.

[@Newton-qu9rh]

This was a little confusing at first but now I think that it's amazing 😂😂😂

[@Stepbrohelp]

What’s shocking to me was that when you very first said the question, my immediate thought was “oh it at 2pm” but when I stopped and thought about it for a second I reversed my perspective within just a few seconds and now confidently feel that it’s at 10 am. Very odd.

[@yonyon5432]

I'm not a native English speaker, so it took me quite a while to understand the problem here. In my language, when you talk about moving an event, the word you use to describe it specifies whether the event will occur later or earlier. That doesn't leave much space for subjectivity, so when you talked about "forward" I automatically thought "forward is +, so +2 hours". Because time is less subjective in my language, I thought about "forward" as either + or - time, instead of as moving in correlation to something else (which is a more subjective type of progression). I hope that makes sense🤔 Edit: now that I think about it, you'll actually need to give *more* information about the situation in Hebrew to make time subjective, which is pretty weird. Giving more info will let you use more subjective words that give the same perspective as "forward".

[@aliaseau-vive2699]

Yeah I kind of had the same issue. In French we often says pushing the event by x hours. So instead of flowing time or ego-perception it is more like event perception

[@steveh3571]

English isn't overly subjective, It's just that a lot of native English speakers do not know the meaning of most of the words they speak. So you get videos like this. But I love asap science but this video could have been solved with a dictionary.

[@KirkWaiblinger]

Ours specifies earlier or later as well... Forward before Backward after (aft=back) I regard the opposite interpretation as a widespread misunderstanding of our language.

[@1stHalf]

I don't get why people don't understand this is about being objective and subjective. The timeline will exist without humans and will always be left is back, right is forward on this linear line that will not change. Just because you add an object into the timeline, doesn't mean that linear line changes direction, it's still moving forward. It's literally how an object moves based on the timeline, which the question is about time so you need to base it off of the timeline rules aka is linear and moves in one direction, which is forward. If you are changing the date of an event, the timeline would say hey, if you want to move forward, turn right, if you want to move backwards, turn left. If you chose left, the timeline would say that's the backwards direction, don't give the event(meeting) any faces so it's not facing anywhere. It's only because people are moving their body parts that would feel like it's forward but did you go forward in time? No, you went back in time but you are confused because of the direction you were facing. It's like you know you want to go the past, but you're saying youre running forward towards the past, but your direction doesn't speak the truth of the reality, which is you went backwards on the timeline. That's how the timeline would see it. Basically following the rules of the globe North East South West, those are the objective directions. It's like running on a treadmill facing the back of the plane, you feel like you're running forward, which you are, in reference to your body and not the globe, but you're not actually going forward. The plane is going forward and you are running backward in correlation to where you are actually moving. A - B. Just because you face a certain way, doesn't mean that'll be the direction you went. That's how you be objective, removing the person from the equation.

[@1stHalf]

@@steveh3571 origin from old english is to move forward into the future.

[@MikaelLindberg]

The meeting previously booked at 12:00 have been changed to be 2 hours later, at 14:00.

[@Black_Jesus3005]

The meeting is at 2pm. *Fight me!* 😂

[@dbzayan]

I chose 2pm, yet I see the holidays as coming towards us.

[@TheKaylaPup]

I agree. Completely. I still can't see how it could be 10AM, but I am starting to understand why it's odd. Consider this breakdown. Wednesday's noon meeting has been moved forward by two hours. Wednesday's is a possessive noun, it is showing ownership of noon. Noon is a noun. Following traditional English sentence structure nouns are usually either the subject: the one doing the verb, or an object, something the doing is done to. (you might drive a car or give to a friend, car and friend are objects.) Meeting is also a noun, and so should follow this same rule. Has been moved forward by two hours can probably pretty safely be taken together as predicate: but we can break it down. "has been" is used here to form the present perfect voice, which denotes sometime is or was ongoing. In this context it implies the movement did not happen all at one, but over a period of time. The past tense "moved" tells us the movement has sinse stopped. In this case, forward is an adverb, it modifies the movement. By is also ad adverb which modifies forward. Two is an adjective which modifies hours. Hours is a noun, and therfore either a subject or an object, but the use of the word by tells us hours is an object. So, theoretically you should be able to organize this sentence differently to make what is supposed to be subject and what is meant to be object more clear. Let's try The meeting (subject), has been moved forward by two hours from Wednesday's noon. Wednesday's noon(subject) has been moved forward by two hours realitive to the meeting. In case hours being an object has unclear, let's try to make it the subject. Two hours has been moved forward for Wednesday's noon meeting. I agree, that last one is absolute nonsense, but I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it. I originally thought of noon as an adjective in this context, describing the meeting. Noon isn't an adjective, but it still makes sense to use it as one. If noon is an adjective then the meeting is clearly the subject, and the final time is 2PM as the meeting moved in time. I hope this explains why 2PM for anyone who doesn't see it. I really would love a better explanation the other way.

[@sallyhulbert2008]

I say it’s to pm but I’m looking forward to Christmas

[@TheKaylaPup]

@Joshua Barbanel Yeah, this was pointed out to me irl a bit ago. And I now see why people see 10am. But that's not the explanation given in the video. I've learned that the problem here is forward. When you are looking forward in time you mean the future, and when looking back you mean the past. Yet, when a meeting is moved back it means it will be further in the future. In english, we don't usually use forward to denote a meeting moving, so we don't have a collective agreement about what that means. We move meetings back, up, or to a specific time. I'm actually pretty sure up and back are both meant to refer more to a meeting moving through a planner or intenerary, as opposed to literally moving in time, but of course if it moves in the schedule in moves in real life. And I see how saying moving forward in a schedule should mean earlier. However, everything else in which forward is associated with time refers to th future. Which seems to be where the real confusion is coming from.

[@1stHalf]

It's because 2pm is actually more objective than 10am. Timeline being static but also the reference point, not affected by where a human is. So forward will always be the same direction >>>. Being subjective is wrong when it comes to things like timelines. Being objective in life is the right way to live life. No bias, just reality.

[@serenakantor9601]

i think he’s right that it has something to do with how we perceive the said event , if it’s something we are going to do or something that is going to “happen” to us

[@kaneraymond6711]

Mr incredible: WEDNESDAY IS WEDNESDAY!!!

[@pushbaner5219]

The worst day of the week

[@SWLinPHX]

@@pushbaner5219 LOL, I kind of hate Wednesday too. Not sure why so much. It's just too "fat" and right in the middle. I like Thursday because I feel we crossed a hurdle somehow.

[@SaidurRahman-lv1ht]

It's good to hear that some other people also chose 10 am because I chose 10 am and everyone around me was saying 2 pm and so

[@stelladavis1798]

I instinctually thought 2pm but after you pointed it out I realized that if the meeting were moved forward it would be 10:00. If the meeting were pushed back, then it would be 2:00. I have the most boring type of synesthesia but it's actually relevant for this. I blend time and space perception, which is what I though everyone did until I heard about time-space synesthesia and realized that not everyone does that. For me, time is like a helix/coil that I'm standing on, with the future being up, forward, and to the right, and the past is down, forward, and to the left. When I'm thinking of time relative to myself, I see it based on wherever I am on the coil. When I'm thinking of time relative to itself (like thinking of a date on the year, but not how far away it is from me), I'm standing in the spring, around April, probably because that's when my birthday is. So from that standpoint, I'm in the spring, summer is to my right, winter is to my left, and autumn is below and across from me. But right now it's November, so winter is to my right, summer is to my left, and spring is up and across from me. Seasons also have colors but I think that's just kind of cultural, like spring is green, winter is ice blue, fall is dark orange and summer is yellow. But I think that's just the colors most people associate wih the seasons. Apparently my mom thinks of time as an imaginary calendar, where if you say "April", she imagines the month of April on a calendar.

[@Weijiajules]

When I think about this question in English I think it’s 10am, when I think about this question in Chinese it’s 2pm ...

[@juicearth999]

How is it 10, it’s going forward not backword

[@A.H._]

When I think about it in English, it's like "totally 2pm, duh", but when I translate it to Spanish I'm like "wait, what, no, it's 10am". So like.. I feel you

[@msndrstdmstrmnd]

When I think about it in English I think it’s 2 pm, when I think about it in korean it’s 10am...

[@SleepyMamaBear-]

Yeah in dutch i feel like 10am but in english 2pm

[@alexanderb4818]

@@juicearth999 it is ten because it is going forward.

[@kousagi409]

My English textbook defined “move forward” as “move to an earlier time.” I guess the writers had time-moving perspectives. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@alicia_grace]

both actually make sense to me, sometimes one makes more sense but i rethink it and the other also makes sense

[@flicknotesruinmylife]

how is it 10 am- wait. "Forward". I GET YOU GUYS NOW (I forgot why and then remembered again after that lol)

[@PaleGhost69]

Shout out to all the people asking "what time was the meeting?"

[@AmberAmber]

TY!!! I didn't understand at ALL what that even meant.😅

[@semaj_5022]

Never

[@TheChickenRiceBowl]

Aka all the people that failed algebra.

[@PaleGhost69]

@@TheChickenRiceBowl or those that don't like vague language

[@rharini1514]

@Patrick Hudson lol

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius

[@Userr0557]

Books In Review Which is why in science, supported claims are “Theories”

[@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1]

That logic could be used to defend a lot of strange arguments, conspiracy theories, religion, and superstition. Risky way of thinking.

[@Bards.98]

And this way of thinking is causing a mess in the world right now.

[@mrslcom]

@@__-rb9st. Observations are relative, depending on your point of view.

[@tirompoilrene]

"We were just having fun, not knowing we were making memories." - Winnie the Pooh

[@tyroth5843]

This channel teaches me more then school

[@thespiderman630]

This just blew my mind 😂 I had to pause a few times and mentally process this video! Me and my wife about to have a good convo today 😂

[@cailynrossiter5569]

Personally, I’m team 2pm, but if the senario were to be stated as “moved up 2 hours” it would definitely be at 10am.

[@George-ps5]

People say moved up? Like ever?

[@Sohcahtoa82]

​@@George-ps5 Yes. Though it's usually phrased differently, as in "Can we move this meeting up to 10 AM?" rather than "Can we move the meeting up two hours?"

[@cherryblossomshadow3]

My exact thoughts! Or even "push the meeting up" makes me think of it being earlier, whereas the "move the meeting forward" made me think later. Wild!

[@hoodiedoot]

No moved down

[@Lean-zj1nl]

But, it says Wednesday noon.

[@thegreatafrican3367]

Plot twist: whoever set that meeting didn't want to come

[@samannwaysil4412]

😁😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣

[@axsdenied9416]

Always been a fan of you guys but I really like this particular video format of the 2 of you having a discussion while providing information. Keep it up!

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

I always get confused when something is pushed back or moved forward. So when they originally posed the question, I said 2pm. However, I'm used to people saying a meeting is pushed back (delayed) and thinking that it's earlier. I trained myself to understand something being "pushed back"means the time is later despite my instincts saying otherwise. However, when asked about the holidays, I perceive them as coming. The notion of me "getting to the holidays"feels incredibly foreign to me. I think it's interesting how split I am as just one human being, and how the context changed my perception of time. Great video!

[@lukesumberg9182]

There’s a fascinating study on this and related questions like this called “The Experiential Basis of Meaning”. Anyone interested in fictive motion, or even skeptical that it may just be a linguistic problem should give it a read!

[@TheBrothers759]

You can't even find this journal by searching its title exactly, and just because someone did a study on it doesn't mean it can't be a mostly linguistic trick. People did scientific journals about cigarettes being good for you. Doesn't mean anything.

[@stacyescobedo1642]

Actually, i searched it and it popped up first result. Its from the proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society

[@lukesumberg9182]

Eric Alvarez I didn’t say it was a linguistic trick. I said that if you think it may be a linguistic trick you should read it, because it claims otherwise.

[@jayders1]

Whoever is reading this I hope you have a great rest of your day and keep growing as a person!! :)

[@sonjatompkins]

I thought “If the meeting gets pushed back 2 hours, then it would be 2PM.”....so then if it’s moved forward, then it would be 10AM.

[@marksilla8276]

How? Moving clockwise is forward and moving anti clockwise is backwards.

[@protectomegax2674]

Actually, for the first time I was reading it, I thought it's gonna be 2am 😅

[@chapterrv]

@@marksilla8276 I thought this, too. But see other argument: if an even it's pushed forward, it means it's earlier in the day. Pushing back is means further away or later. I understand it , but it's not as natural me because I'm visual. Forward to me means later because that's how clocks work. Backwards to me means sooner.

[@ashleycrystal9719]

Move forward from the time it was supposed to have originally been which is 2pm.

[@violethaye6987]

I see it as, we count up right? Otherwise forward. So let's say a meeting today is at 3 pm. 2 hours forward is 3 + 2 which = 5 (pm). 2 hours backwards would be 3 - 2 which = 1(pm).

[@nikolaella]

This started a war in my friend group... 😂

[@danpak1599]

I definitely thought it was 10am cause like forward to me means like moving the meeting to be at an earlier time lol

[@RandiPoitras]

If it was phrased as “the meeting has moved UP two hours”, I would think it was earlier. But saying it “moved FORWARD”, I think of it as moved forward in time and is therefore later.

[@colingraham1585]

Yeah, exactly! When I say the meeting is moved “back” I would say that it was moved later in time. E.g, we didn’t have the meeting today; so we moved it back to tomorrow. Very helpful comment.

[@parabolaaaaa4919]

Colin Graham for me that means it was once tomorrow

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

If someone told me a meeting had been moved UP, I'd need them to clarify. You can't move up through the time dimension. You can only move forwards or backwards through time as the way we percieve time only accounts for one dimension. Saying the meeting has moved up is like saying it's been moved to an alternate timeline in my mind.

[@_unknownymous_]

@@SamuraiPipotchi it's like in a classroom. u move up to the front or move back. it's usually understood. nobody thinks u're actually movin to a higher plane

[@rowanbrearley4483]

To move something forward means it happens at an earlier point. Hence 10am is the only correct answer - not a perception or opinion - it’s fact. I’m quite baffled that this isn’t common knowledge tbh

[@FaeQueenCory]

I perceive Time in the only correct way: Spirographs.

[@johnwisdomtv]

woke is woken

[@besma2627]

an intellectual

[@auroraofclanborealis]

No, it's like a KZbin timeline bar, you just decide when to be.

[@mxxxn]

my brain is mush

[@gaysiansociolog404]

Lol their debates must be wild before bed.

[@itsyouruncle8126]

I originally thought it was 2pm and I cant understand why people would think its 10am, but when he started talking about the tests on their personality, I think that events are inevitable and that time moves through me, because if I was in a stream with water running around me, if I wasnt there, the water would still be getting to the same place.

[@GaelRice]

im on the ego moving perspective, but it may be because the word for "forward" in my mother language spanish is "adelantar/avanzar" which all have to do with going ahead, further. and we think of the future as something that is in front of us. so I've always associated "forward" with the future.

[@MandalaAtnite]

Same here ! I'm French and "forward" would be translated as "avancer", in this case. Therefore, I don't understand how "forward" can mean going backwards. Mind blowing topic !

[@jandeman.]

Yep me too! I'm Dutch, same thing

[@PabloPerroPerro]

No? Si a mí me dicen que se ha adelantado, sin duda sería dos horas antes, a las 10am!

[@widmawod]

I'm Italian and I asked all my family about this and they all turned out to have the ego moving perspective, but also the words avanti, antes and avant used to mean or still mean before... so I guess there are other linguistic factors that influence our perspective of time.

[@widmawod]

I'm so glad that science channels on youtube are finally talking about linguistics more and more because it IS science.

[@michelled7324]

imagine people showing up at the meeting at 10am. the people who thought the meeting was at 2pm will be sooooooooooooooooooo confused

[@owenlewthwaite5644]

Wrong the people at 10:00 would be way to early

[@DarkPillWarrior]

@@owenlewthwaite5644 It depends on how they mean moved ahead 2 hours. Ahead could mean 2 hours earlier or 2 hours later. Usually I would think it would be 2 hours later but I know that it can mean 2 hours earlier. If it was moved 2 hours ahead of schedule then it would be 2 hours earlier and if it was moved 2 hours behind schedule it would be 2 hours later. :/

[@xyelashe]

@@DarkPillWarrior but they did not use the word "ahead" they said "forward" and in the context of time you would have to add 2hrs

[@AceChampElite]

Me showing up at noon because I wasn’t cc’d

[@gingerinajacket8519]

It might help to show an action happening to the time to disambiguate. "Pushed back" would mean that the meeting is further away, right? "Pulled Forward", while a bit clunky, shows that it is now closer, no? "Move" is a terrible word that can be used anywhere. I move my fingers to type, They move their mouth to speak. I move upwards and then back down again. "Move" has no restrictions on what that motion is about. So to move a meeting, it can go either way.

[@drinkalotofwater]

I am a 10 a.m. and I do feel static at times. I’m up early hours in advance just to be somewhere early meaning on time. Never excited to get to a holiday, they come eventually. I flow through my day and I pre think events as alternate timelines to control the narrative. I’m also a Gemini so I breeze through as an air sign, slow, fast, calm, and rough.

[@yannizh3254]

Wednesday's noon meeting has been moved "forward" by 2 hours: both you and time are facing each other at noon: you face toward 2pm and time is facing toward 10am 10am: you stay still (don't move), the time (noon) is moved through you to morning. Time is essentially moving backward. 2pm: the time is still (time cannot move back), so you have to move 2 hours from noon.

[@jasonstamp10]

The meeting’s at 10am for me. To me moving something “forward” means it’s happening sooner, it’s been brought closer to me. For me to think that the meeting is at 2pm, it would have been “delayed” two hours. I’m also one of the people that thinks the holidays are “coming”.

[@plpGTR]

I'm a 2pm person, but I 100% agree on your argument. It is also a thing on what your parents used and your friends use. Are you an english speaking person? Because in germany we rather use the equivalent to "earlier" (and "later") insted of "forward". "Forward" might be further in the future or earlier in time. Exactly what they explain, you are moving forward to reach year 2021, so moving a meeting "forward" could mean further away (= 2pm people)

[@manair.1719]

thank you! I am not native to English and had a hard time to understand the whole concept! thx

[@hannibalhector3719]

Dude, I could not comprehend how someone could think it is 10AM. Thank you for breaking it down.

[@EowynG191]

Fascinating. Thank you for explaining your thoughts! ♡ I'm a 2pm person and have such a hard time understanding using forward to mean earlier, although you explained it so simply. I think I'd compare my thinking to using the forward button while watching a movie. Pressing that button moves us ahead, that is, to a later time or scene. I literally picture a movable me on an unchangeable time line. From what I understand, you picture it coming forward - that is, toward you? So you are still and things in time come forward that way?

[@jaysontyh5869]

I am nit a native English speaker, and I thought the term '' move forward '' means the meeting will be held earlier so I am a 10am person, cause now I am waiting for my '' entry to university''(an event) to come, instead of me going to the university

[@alicemaddock2995]

if it was “brought forward” 2 hours, i’d say 10am, and “pushed back” 2 hours, i’d say 2pm

[@davidmccolgan6972]

Yes!! Exactly!! I don’t think people in my circle (NE Scotland) would say ‘moved’ forward or back. We’d say ‘brought forward’ or ‘pushed back’, which is unambiguous here. When he said ‘moved forward’ I heard ‘brought forward’ so obviously thought 10am.

[@HemantSharma-xp4ey]

It's not brought forward, it's "moved forward" so it was at 12 noon and it has been MOVED FORWARD so it's at 2 pm now. And simply, pushed back means it has been pushed in the past so it's at 10 am now

[@davidmccolgan6972]

thanks@@HemantSharma-xp4ey , but we did listen to the original video and heard the words the men spoke. What we're saying is that in our cultures no one would use the phrase "moved forward" because it can be interpreted two ways. And anyone I speak to about meeting times in my culture would understand "pushed back" to mean "pushed away from us" therefore making it later in the day: so I don't think it's as simple as you suppose.

[@yuxisushiii]

WAIT at first I was a 2pm person but then after reading this I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE

[@briandewolfe]

If someone told you to change your clocks by saying "move/turn your clock forward 1 hour" you'd be setting it to a later time. 1am --> 2am. "Spring *forward*, fall back"

[@megan1459]

that first question is very tricky because i see both sides clearly and i feel like i’m both sides on perceiving time wow

[@Danielevans2]

Why my alarm goes off in the morning... Time definitely hits me 😭

[@hrs795]

Yanny is having a meeting at 10am, and she's wearing white-gold dress.

[@aliviareed3238]

All of those are wronggggg 😂

[@Smt_.x]

You had me until you said white and gold, smh 😭

[@laettesollis8140]

Haha! Good one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lightwire123]

2pm and I'll agree xD

[@jaker8461]

Am I the only one that hears the yanny/laurel thing as "yarry"?

[@john-sebastianbarrera1884]

The ambivalence lies in the term "forward" This is what throws people off

[@YT7mc]

I actually think the word "push" is what messes people up. Pushing something almost always means _away_ . So to push it forwards should mean to have the meeting later, seeing as how pushing it forwards would mean _away_ from the current time it is set to. Rather than arguing about either the person or time as being the thing we base relativity off of, it should be the meeting.

[@realnoahsimpson]

I think you mean "ambiguous" ambivalent means something very different

[@orchdork775]

I initially thought the meeting was at 2pm, but then I quickly realized it could also be at 10 AM, so I started doubting my original answer. Idk which I am now 😂

[@jeaniebird999]

I like to ask people of they're more a , "glass half full or half empty" -type person. But my answer is always, "It depends on if half was emptied out or it was only filled halfway."

[@Kosteru-des]

I feel frustrated when I say "turn back a page" and they turn to the next page, not the previous

[@mauve9266]

How do people turn to the next page when you say turn back 😅 I mean I get it but it’s interesting how that works damn English language 😂

[@otesunki]

Bruh

[@alwinshajan6703]

How even...?

[@Kosteru-des]

@@mauve9266 "Back means towards the end/back side of the book" is the common answer. Of course it doesn't help

[@wcropp1]

Same things happens with scrolling up vs. down on a computer screen...”no, the other down”...

[@viaheadwig]

Take the antithesis. Does anyone think that a meeting “moved back” makes the meeting at 10am?

[@loreta8249]

Obviously yes

[@MaddyMayMay]

Nope

[@CC-kj4yc]

@@MaddyMayMay yes

[@basintheworld4613]

Yes, obviously!

[@OliviaAndreoli]

Of course not, though I’d usually say “pushed back” because that way the meaning is more clear (think physically pushing the meeting farther from you in time).

[@yaakovstein4129]

A related topic: Feynman and Tukey discovered that the way they "felt" that a minute has passed was completely different. Feynman heard counting to 60 in his head (and thus felt slower time when talking with someone, but not when reading) while Tukey saw a "ticker tape" with numbers 1-60 (and thus felt slower time when reading, but not when talking with someone)

[@klassicneo]

Logically speaking, the statement technically moved "the time of the meeting" forward, so 10am. I'm trying real hard to rephrase that statement to sound like 2pm though

[@watmainibaadman]

I think the question here is “which way is forward?” If you have ego-moving perception, the time isn’t moving, therefore it has no “forward”. So if you want to move it _forward_ , as you are the one who is moving, you take your “forward” as the direction of which the time of the meeting is moved. And because _you_ move through time “clockwise”, the direction of forward is 2pm.

[@SupremeBeyonder]

Think of it in this way, in the manner that clock hands move forward in their March around the clock.

[@carpetcarpet468]

@@watmainibaadman Yeah, both groups seem to really not understand that even with the video

[@chevyDboyMike]

So when you count foward from 12 you end up at 10....?

[@rebeccadoboca4337]

@@chevyDboyMike The meeting was originally set to be at 12pm (noon). It has now been moved forward by 2 hours (aka the meeting is now 2 hours early) so it would be 10 am in that context. But tbh my first thought was 2pm and couldn't make sense of it until now so idk.

[@kurichan142]

"It reminds me of Yanny/Laurel." * clip plays * Me: wait, that was just Laurel Also Me: *oh yea...*

[@TheGrapeApe22]

LOL exact same thing happened to me mine was yanny

[@TrueInvisible]

yup! when they played the clip i only heard Laurel

[@VeronaRoma7546]

I heard both but I heard Yanny when I first took that test

[@deepanshi4902]

I heard yanny

[@Riz_69]

I herd yaorle

[@syawkcab]

I would interpret "moved forward 2 hours" and "moved back 2 hours" to both mean the meeting is at 2pm. If the meeting is at 10am, I would say it's moved up 2 hours

[@massimookissed1023]

Right ... So forward and back are now both the same direction ?!

[@marcy2k1]

I think I agree with this. When I imagine "up" I think of a rising or ascension whereas "forward" is moving towards the future. I'd imagine the highest ascension being morning and the opposite of this to be night so moving up is ascending closer to morning.

[@penguinlim]

same! Don't know why forward and back somehow are the same, but they are to me in this context

[@Sabertooth2121]

yes yes and yes 100% agree

[@BackcountryForward]

Same “forward” and “back” mean 2pm. But if someone said “moved ahead 2 hrs” I would now think 10am. This is crazy and I wonder if it’s different for the time-movers.

[@3blame]

Interestingly enough this has an absolute correlation with meyers-briggs types. If you perceive events moving forward in time (noon -> 2pm) then you have the functions Si and Ne conscious (xSxJ and xNxP). If you perceive events moving backward in time (noon -> 10am) then you have the functions Se and Ni conscious (xSxP and xNxJ).

[@thegreatvince]

So I’m bilingual with French being my native language. In English I went directly with 2PM, and would never have thought 10AM, but said in French I would go with 10AM. Funny!

[@Housewarmin]

Please tell me we are all showing up at that meeting for 2pm?!

[@saltywolf7328]

I don't know if I will show up at all seems kinda shady at this point

[@tamanduastance]

SaltyWolf Thank you for making me laugh

[@NicoCappa]

Definitely

[@KSh14]

Let's just meet at noon

[@BlueSkies30]

@@saltywolf7328 Best answer. lol - If you can't give me the exact time, I'm not going. Perfect.

[@paulafunaro1890]

You can literally see greg is still trying to understand

[@caseyj1144]

Immediately thought 2pm and then corrected myself knowing what my colleagues would mean 😂

[@commanderwaddles3483]

I'm relieved to see this because every time my mom talks about day light savings movement (in Spanish, so it's not just an English thing, maybe a Latin root words thing? ), I have no idea what she means by forwards & what she means by backwards lmao