研究：置身大自然会对你体验时间的方式产生深远影响

研究发现，置身大自然会让你感觉时间过得更慢，有助于将你的注意力从眼前转移到未来的需求上。你将能够延迟即时满足感，转而追求长期回报，而不是永远生活在“只求过得去”的状态中。

Do you ever get that feeling that there aren't enough hours in the day? That time is somehow racing away from you, and it is impossible to fit everything in. But then, you step outside into the countryside and suddenly everything seems slower, more relaxed, like time has somehow changed.

你是否有过这样的感觉：一天的时间不够用？时间不知不觉地从你身边溜走，不可能把所有事情都安排好。但是，当你走到郊外，突然间一切都变得缓慢、轻松起来，就好像时间发生了某种变化。

It's not just you – recent research showed nature can regulate our sense of time.

不仅仅是你，最近的研究表明，大自然可以调节我们的时间感。

For many of us, the combined demands of work, home and family mean that we are always feeling like we don't have enough time. Time poverty has also been exacerbated by digital technologies. Permanent connectivity extends working hours and can make it difficult to switch off from the demands of friends and family.

对我们许多人来说，工作、家庭和家人的综合需求意味着我们总是感觉时间不够用。数字技术也加剧了时间贫乏。永久连接延长了工作时间，也使我们难以摆脱朋友和家人的要求。

Recent research suggests that the antidote to our lack of time may lie in the natural world. Psychologist Richardo Correia, at the University of Turku in Finland, found that being in nature may change how we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense of time abundance.

最新研究表明，解决我们时间匮乏问题的良方可能在于自然世界。芬兰图尔库大学的心理学家理查多·科雷亚发现，身处在大自然中可能会改变我们对时间的体验方式，甚至可能让我们感觉到时间的充裕。

Correia examined research which compared people's experiences of time when they performed different types of tasks in urban and natural environments. These studies consistently showed that people report a sense of expanded time when they were in nature compared to when they were in an urban environment.

科雷亚查阅了比较人们在城市和自然环境中执行不同类型任务时对时间体验的研究。这些研究一致表明，与在城市环境中相比，人们在大自然中会有时间更充裕的感觉。

For example, people are more likely to perceive a walk in the countryside as longer than a walk of the same length in the city. Similarly, people report perceiving time as passing more slowly while performing tasks in natural green environments than in urban environments. Nature seems to slow and expand our sense of time.

例如，与在城市中散步相比，人们更倾向于认为在郊外散步的时间更长。同样，与城市环境相比，人们在绿色自然环境中执行任务时会觉得时间过得更慢。大自然似乎减缓并扩展了我们的时间感。

It's not just our sense of time in the moment which appears to be altered by the natural world, it's also our sense of the past and future. Previous research shows that spending time in nature helps to shift our focus from the immediate moment towards our future needs. So rather than focusing on the stress of the demands on our time, nature helps us to see the bigger picture.

自然世界似乎不仅改变了我们当下的时间感，还改变了我们对过去和未来的时间感。先前的研究表明，在大自然中度过的时间有助于将我们的注意力从眼前转移到未来的需求上。因此，大自然会帮助我们看到更广阔的前景，而不是专注于时间要求带给我们的压力。

This can help us to prioritise our actions so that we meet our long-term goals rather than living in a perpetual state of "just about keeping our head above water".

这可以帮助我们确定行动的轻重缓急，从而实现我们的长期目标，而不是永远生活在“只求过得去”的状态中。

This is in part because spending time in nature appears to make us less impulsive, enabling us to delay instant gratification in favour of long-term rewards.

这在一定程度上是因为在大自然中度过的时间似乎会让我们不那么冲动，使我们能够延迟即时满足感，转而追求长期回报。

来源：中国日报

编辑：陈丹妮 董静 齐磊