The time on your clock and the time you actually feel passing are not the same thing
Philosopher Henri Bergson argued clock time — identical, measurable instants laid out like beads, the kind physics uses — is a useful fiction that doesn't match how time is actually experienced. Real, lived time, which he called 'duree' (duration), is continuous and qualitative: an hour of boredom and an hour of fascination take up the same space on a clock but feel nothing alike. Bergson's distinction won him the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature and influenced Proust and Virginia Woolf.