# The Feeling of Passage Torrengo (draft) **Opening (not a real abstract):** Feeling the passing of time∗ Giuliano Torrengo, University of Milan (penultimate draft, forthcoming in The Journal of Philosophy) It 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 part of our common sense narrative about reality, and hence it is a 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