a few ways in which time does not feel real lately

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

Sickness as a time warp

It was a fever dream of a week: on Tuesday I slept 20 hours. I went on a 10-minute walk on Thursday to pick up some takeout and felt like I was on ketamine. It was that feeling you get when you walk on the tiled bottom of a swimming pool, everything dilated and sluggish, your usual capabil…