What If Everyone Stopped Believing in Time?

Imagine you're playing a game where everyone closes their eyes, and suddenly there's no clock, no sunrise or sunset, just pure silence. That’s like what happens if everyone stops believing in time. Time becomes a shared story we all agree on. If that story ends, the whole world feels like it has stopped, even though nothing real has changed.

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Imagine everyone at school just stops counting minutes and suddenly doesn’t know when lunchtime is.
If your parents stopped believing in time, you might not get up for breakfast anymore, or ever again.
What if the sun never rose because no one believed it would? The sky stays dark forever.

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