Why does time seem to drag when we're bored or in pain, or to go slowly when we're in unfamiliar environments? Why does it slow down dramatically in accidents and emergency situations, when sportspeople are "in the zone', or in higher states of consciousness? MAKING TIME explains why we have these different perceptions of time. It puts forward five basic "laws" of psychological time and uncovers the factors which cause them. It uses evidence from modern physics and unusual states of consciousness to suggest that our normal sense of time is an illusion, "created" by our minds.

Steve Taylor PhD is the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, and is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is the current chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. His other books include Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, The Leap and Spiritual Science. He lives in Manchester with his wife and children.