"temporal illusion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the perception of time being different from reality. It can be used in various contexts, such as describing a feeling of time passing quickly or slowly, or in scientific discussions about how the brain processes time. Example: The hikers were so engrossed in their conversation that they experienced a temporal illusion, making it feel like only minutes had passed when in reality, hours had gone by.
As dusk comes, the temporal illusion seems to gain strength.
"Over the course of the summer, I've been working with a temporal illusion.
An everyday example of this temporal illusion is seen in high-speed sports such as baseball and tennis.
In the video above, Holmes can be seen making a presentation on "temporal illusion," which he defines as "an illusion that allows you to change the past" and that which "takes place inside the mind, as opposed to the external world".
For more on the relevant illusions, Grush's argument, and the responses available to the Extensionalist see Section 3 of the supplementary document Husserl, the Brain and Cognitive Science, and the supplementary document Interpreting Temporal Illusions.
In the case of the 'flash-lag illusion', for example, stimuli which are in fact simultaneous appear as successive (for more on this see Section 3 of the supplementary documents Husserl, the Brain and Cognitive Science and the supplementary document Interpreting Temporal Illusions).
In support of this claim Dennett deploys a range of intriguing examples – including the cutaneous rabbit and the colour phi phenomenon (see Section 3 of the supplementary documents Husserl, the Brain and Cognitive Science and supplementary document Interpreting Temporal Illusions) – but the main line of argument can be brought out with one of his simplest.
In some respects it is also similar to the 'fixed-lag smoother' model that Rao, Eagleman and Sejnewski (2001) employ to explain related temporal illusions (e.g. the flash-lag), but has the advantage of not postulating a delay of around 100 200 msec between sensory stimuli and their subsequent representations (Grush 2005b: 2005b16).
In addition to psychoactive drugs, judgments of time can be altered by temporal illusions (like the kappa effect), age, and hypnosis.
Although many "temporal illusions" have been documented [41] there has been little or no attention to individual differences in susceptibility to the factors which influence subjective duration.
"This piece is based on the idea of time perception and the fact that our inner clock is constantly distorted by temporal and spatial illusion with emotion having a huge role," McGloughlin writes, in the video's description.
