Time should be unflinching. It should be in perfect sync no matter where you go, whether you’re at the other end of the galaxy or in your bedroom.

But, according to Leeds Beckett University psychologist Steve Taylor, time isn’t a well-oiled Swiss. It’s more of a twisty-turning, tiny, whiny set of unstructured, ever-changing rules. Even more, our brains are what cause it to bend and stretch in ways that don’t make a whole lot of sense.

Taylor’s curiosity about this came from a near-death experience. In 2014, he and his wife survived a car crash where, according to Taylor, the world suddenly slipped into a Matrix-like bullet time.

Everything moved in slow motion. He saw details he shouldn’t have had time to see. This launched a decade-long dive into what Taylor calls “Time Expansion Exper

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