Weird thing that happened after I switched to fully remote, my sense of time kinda broke
So I have been fully remote since last fall and I swear something about my internal clock got scrambled. When I was in the office I always had this rhythm of the day built in by the commute, the noise, the random drop ins, lunch buddies, even the annoying elevator traffic. Since going remote, all of that disappeared and my days started to feel almost... flat. Not in a bad way, just different. I keep losing track of what hour it is and sometimes I look up and it is 3pm and I honestly thought it was like 11 or something. My brain still thinks that if I am not surrounded by people, the day has not really started yet.
What really set me off was last week when I finished a whole project in one long stretch without standing up once. I thought it took maybe an hour. Turns out it was nearly four. I only noticed because my smartwatch yelled at me to move. And then on the flip side, some mornings drag on forever because I am waiting for that old office feeling of things ramping up but it just never comes. I tried switching up my workspace, playing background office ambience, even doing fake commute walks but nothing sticks.
I am not burned out and I am not depressed or anything like that. It is more like my brain is running on the wrong timezone even though I never left my city. Has anyone else had their sense of time just do a full reboot after going remote. Did anything help you get it back or did you just adapt eventually. Kinda curious if this is normal or if my brain is just glitching out from too much Zoom quiet.
Posted Dec 1, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC