Gregory's ServerBasically, your brain's memory system may be saying "What's happened since 2016... WOAH! That's a LOT. That must have occurred over a really long period, because that's how things work!"
I mean, it's *wrong*, but you can see the reasoning.
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Basically, while the pandemic was *objectively* very significant, it was *subjectively* very dull. Same routine, same place, no standalone external events, for months on end? Our brains lacked significant experiences to commit to memory, and thus log the passage of time. /8 |
Contrast that with how most people can barely remember the COVID pandemic. The most significant, anxiety-inducing event of the modern era, that lasted nearly 2 years? And people *don't remember it*? How does that make sense?
But it does, actually.
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