Distant Temporal Illusion

The Distant Temporal Illusion is a cognitive phenomenon where people perceive events that happened a long time ago as more recent or closer in time than they actually are. This occurs because memories can become less detailed or more abstract over time, causing individuals to reconstruct the past inaccurately. As a result, distant events might feel like they occurred only recently, affecting our perception of chronology and memory accuracy. This illusion highlights how our sense of time and memory can distort our understanding of when things actually happened.