A study showed that the pandemic crunched the distance between our remembered events.

<div class="block">A study showed that the pandemic crunched the distance between our remembered events.</div>

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Study: Pandemic Made Time Feel Shorter

And the years of the pandemic seemed to be blurry to so many of us and scientists are finally beginning to understand why new research led by an academic at Caltech found that the pandemic scrunched the distance between our remembered events and compared it to compressing a slinky neuroscientist, Nina Rouhani and her colleagues analyzed Americans reported memories of 2020. They found monotony played a large role in influencing pandemic memories making time feel shorter. The study asked people to share memories about the deaths of Kobe Bryant and George Floyd and how far apart the events were from each other? The monotony of lockdown life made the time between these events feel even shorter.