Abstract
This overview study summarizes the current psychological knowledge about time as a peculiar dimension of human life. The opening part present the five stages of explorations in subjective time between the 19th century psychology and today.
Next, four basic psychological concepts of subjective time (time as the sequence of events, time as duration, time as perspective and, finally, the contextual concept of time) are explained. Part three comments on the peculiarities of lived time (boundaries between past, present and the future and instances of subjective violation of the course of time).
Part four of the study summarizes the diagnostic procedures enabling to observe the subjective perception, living and assessment of time (quantitative and qualitative approaches). Part of the explanation is examples referring to educational applications of the psychological knowledge about subjective time.