Books by Douwe Draaisma
Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past
by Douwe Draaisma
A poetically formulated answer, founded in everyday experience, to how memory processes define your subjective time over longer time scales.
Metaphors of Memory
by Douwe Draaisma
This is a book that should be more widely known. Draaisma is a Dutch historian of psychology and ideas who has written a couple of books about the mind that are filled with wonderfully weird anecdotes and terrific insights.
Interviews where books by Douwe Draaisma were recommended
The best books on Memory, recommended by Joshua Foer
The best-selling author and 2006 US Memory Champion, Joshua Foer, picks five unforgettable books about the art of remembering.
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The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self
by Bud Craig -
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Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann -
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Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
by Nicholas Humphrey
The best books on Time and the Mind, recommended by Marc Wittmann
The best books on Time and the Mind, recommended by Marc Wittmann
“Time is an illusion,” wrote Douglas Adams. “Lunchtime, doubly so.” It is certainly a subjective experience, agrees the psychologist and author Marc Wittmann—as any drug user or meditation expert can tell you. Here he picks five books that unpick our perception of the passage of time.
