Why time seems to pass faster as we age
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age
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#2I'm also obsessed with this and have mostly countered it so far by moving house every few years, living and studying in several countries and trying new things. The negative being that I don't have any stability.
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#3I think mediation and gratefulness is a good way around this too.
If your take explicit time to recognize and examine the world around you, even in your backyard, time seems to stretch and you notice and retain more.
I’m lucky enough to have lots of different colored birds show up in my backyard, so sometimes I sit out there and wait for them.
It’s not exciting, but every time I see one it’s a new memory and those new memories make time feel more.
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#4I'm also obsessed with this and have mostly countered it so far by moving house every few years, living and studying in several countries and trying new things. The negative being that I don't have any stability.
To each his own.
I've been enjoying getting familiar with the sun's location and cyclic changes of nature as the seasons and years pass where I live.
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#5I've always rationalised it as:
When you're one years old, 1 year is your whole life.
When you're 100 years old, 1 year is 1/100th of your life.
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#6There is already a body of research on the perception of time as a function of age, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with_a....
It stems from a few things, and novelty is only one factor. (Also, it is not only that the world begins (to us) as full of novelty, but also most people gradually transition from exploration to exploitation.)
In addition to remembering previous events, there is also how fast we process information (e.g. reaction times). It seems that as we are getting longer, we get fewer clock ticks per second. (On an interesting take on that, read a short story "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang.)
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#7I think mediation and gratefulness is a good way around this too. If your take explicit time to recognize and examine the world around you, even in your backyard, time seems to stretch and you notice and retain more. I’m lucky enough to have lots of different colored birds show up in my backyard, so sometimes I sit out there and wait for them. It’s not exciting, but every time I see one it’s a new memory and those ne…
If you're not already aware, Cornell offers a bunch if resources to enhance your birding experience.
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#8This is one of those things that seems true, but is it? They’ve presented no evidence whatsoever. Even the question itself carries with it an assumption. Does time seem to pass faster as we age? I bet you could find some people for whom it does not.
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#9I've always rationalised it as: When you're one years old, 1 year is your whole life. When you're 100 years old, 1 year is 1/100th of your life.
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Time as you perceive it, is related to new memories you make.
When you’re young, everything is a new experience which in turn becomes a new memory.
When your 100, to use your example, you’ve done everything there is to do. So no new memories & days blur together.
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#10I was always told it's because as you age a year becomes a smaller portion of your life. When you are 35 a year is 1/35th of your life, compared to 1/5th as a 5 year old.