New experiences slow time down. Try something unfamiliar and watch the week stretch out.

Your sense of how long a stretch was comes from how much of it was distinct enough to keep. Familiar days compress because there is little to separate one from the next, while an unfamiliar afternoon lays down detail and takes up more room. Novelty does not add hours, it stops them folding into each other.

Put one unfamiliar thing into this week, and it can be small. A different route, a food you have never cooked, a part of your own city you have never stood in. Notice at the weekend whether the week felt longer.