The phenomenologically real experience in which time 'feels' as if it is proceeding 'more slowly' than usual and is most often associated with our experience of routine behaviours which we carry out effortlessly without much attention to the task at hand. In cognitive linguistics this notion has been studied in detail by Vyvyan Evans. Evidence that temporal compression is encoded in language comes from examples such as the following: The time has sped/whizzed by; Where has the time gone? Time flies when you're having fun.