Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

This book by Dean Buonomano has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Andrew Huberman. The people who vouched for it on air: Andrew Huberman. It comes up in conversations about brain health, depression & mood, focus & dopamine, motivation & discipline, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Nov 2021 and the most recent from Oct 2025. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

A leading neuroscientist presents a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the mind, arguing that the human brain's complex system constructs our sense of chronological flow in ways that are essential to evolution and everyday survival.

• “I'd like to point you to a really excellent book called Your Brain is a Time Machine, the neuroscience and physics of time.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I'd like to point you to a really excellent book”
  Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Oct 202500:30:00

  Said during "Time Perception, Memory & Focus | Huberman Lab Essentials". The episode features Andrew Huberman (solo): Stanford professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. This is a solo Huberman Lab Essentials episode revisiting his science of time perception. Huberman breaks down how light, dopamine and serotonin secretly control your sense of time, focus and memory.