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8th April 2022
12:39pm BST

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Liverpool John Moores University lecturers Ruth Ogden and Catharine Montgomery suggest that the reason might be because alcohol can affect the way our brain monitors time, changing the speed of our "internal clock."
They also proposed the idea that the activities we engage in whilst drunk could help distract us from looking at ticking clocks - hence making time feel like it's moving quicker.
To find out whether this was the case, the pair conducted a study that tried to find out whether time still "flew" when participants weren't doing things usually associated with alcohol consumption.
Speaking to The Psychologist in 2012, they explained that participants were asked to complete a word classification task, and afterwards, asked how long the task lasted. They were also quizzed on whether they felt time passed the same as normal, faster than normal, or slower.
Next, those in the study were asked to guess the length of short audible tones.
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They found that their participants' ability to work out the duration of the word-classification task was unaffected by alcohol consumption - however, a higher dose of booze did result in participants reporting that time flew by quicker.
The study ultimately suggests that alcohol alone is enough to change our perception of time, and actually, social activity has nothing to do with it.
So basically, next time the day seems never-ending, get yourself to the pub or better yet, a bottomless brunch.