The human brain's ability to occupy different time perceptions can lead to being taken out of the present moment.

“one of the most remarkable things to me about the the human brain is our ability to be present or think about the past or the future or the present in the future and we can occupy different time BS and in a recent um unrecorded conversation of our hours uh you showed me something that uh I've seen before but for some reason this time it had a profound impact on me which is that you have a chart of the number of weeks that you're going to live and you mark them off one week at a time”