Listening to: "People Can Fly" by Astral Projection
Our awareness of time changes, it becomes linear and almost constant. We get highly processed real time input from our sensses and combine it with our associative memory and logical, emotional and subconcious deductions.
People often claim that the subcincious is a useful tool, that "sleeping on it" is a good idea when you face a real tough problem to crack. I always felt that the reason behind this is that the subcouncious has more direct access to information that "we have" and more "time" to crack it.