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There is actually a somewhat explain able effect going on with the perception of time vs age: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with_age
by aoner 8y ago
There is actually a somewhat explain able effect going on with the perception of time vs age:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with_age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with...
Psychologists have found that the subjective perception of the passing of time tends to speed up with increasing age in humans. This often causes people to increasingly underestimate a given interval of time as they age. This fact can likely be attributed to a variety of age-related changes in the aging brain, such as the lowering in dopaminergic levels with older age; however, the details are still being debated.[51][52][53] In an experimental study involving a group of subjects aged between 19 and 24 and a group between 60 and 80, the participants' abilities to estimate 3 minutes of time were compared. The study found that an average of 3 minutes and 3 seconds passed when participants in the younger group estimated that 3 minutes had passed, whereas the older group's estimate for when 3 minutes had passed came after an average of 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
One day to an 11-year-old would be approximately 1/4,000 of their life, while one day to a 55-year-old would be approximately 1/20,000 of their life. This helps to explain why a random, ordinary day may therefore appear longer for a young child than an adult.
- majos 8y ago"We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place. That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no longer meets any obstacles, everything is set, time races through our lives, the days pass by in a flash and before we know what is happening we are forty, fifty, sixty..." (Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book 1)
- owens99 8y agoI've heard this called the Logarithmic Theory of Time.