There’s a general misconception about that time is relative, that it occurs faster or slower depending on what happens on a social or psychological level.

That has nothing to do with time, it has to do with reflection of a moment, and what your senses actually experienced at that time and the memory of them. It simply tells you how much occurs in a limited period of time, it doesn’t somehow magically slow it down or speed it up.

Some people say that time flies when you’re having fun, that really only explains that you’re really not reflecting on a lot at that moment. You have a simplified thought process, not necessarily ”empty”, or ”lacking content”, but simplified in the sense of reflecting. Compared to the general overanalysis that occurs when you are bored, or concentrate on something subjectively complicated (like a car accident, or a fight you had in your relationship). What you do then is actually reflect on all the data that your senses experienced, whereas you wouldn’t if you had fun. There is no need for in-depth analysis of a moment when you were laughing and having fun. That does not make it so there is less data that is experienced, but more that there is less data requiring analysis (If something makes me laugh, there is usually no need to analyze everything that occured at that moment, or every aspect that made you laugh … instead it’s more relevant to just laugh).

Of course one could argue that the experience, or rather misexperience of time when you analyze virtually ”everything” should require more time (instead of less), however that has to do more about what you bring forward to your mind. For instance, the mind is able to ”see” millions of complicated things at one moment, you do not have to phraze them (turn the thought into words), you just know from the memory, and in experiencing (and focusing on) that complex memory – the entropic content does not take a lot of time, whereas describing it in words would.

So essentially, the redundance, that is, the seemingly lack of content in experiencing a moment make you reflect a lot less on a lot of things happening (do not really register with what is going on, even if it is a lot) makes so that you subjectively believe that time has traveled faster. Whereas the entropy, that is, the seemingly breadth of content in experiencing a moment make you reflect on a lot more of things happening (a lot register with your mind) and you subjectively believe that time has traveled slower (since there is so much you thought about).