# FEELING THE PASSING OF TIME **Opening (not a real abstract):** t is one of our ordinary beliefs that time passes. And it seems trivial to say that we think this to be so because our experiences tell us so. I distinguish between these two ideas. More precisely, I distinguish the ordinary belief that time passes from the feeling that time passes—that is, the phenomenal character of the passage of time, or the experience as of time passing. The former is feature of experience only in the broad sense of the term, which includes not only presently occurring perceptions, but also memories, thoughts about the future, and our cognitive life in general. The latter is a characteristic of the way our conscious states feel to us, and hence a feature of experience in a stricter sense—one that includes only presently occurring sensory and perceptual mental episodes.1 **Authors:** [[Torrengo]]