Psychology Today | 13.01.2026 08:22
When people talk about time, we rarely keep our hands still. We gesture backward when mentioning the past, forward when talking about the future, or sweep our hands sideways as if laying events out on an invisible timeline. These movements may feel automatic, but they reveal something profound about how the human mind understands time. Across languages and cultures, people use space to think about time. And our hands, quite literally, show us how.
