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A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences; when each day resembles the one before it,
by jmcphers 3y ago
A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences; when each day resembles the one before it, whole months can disappear in lived monotony.
I like to think of memory as using a sort of compression algorithm. Repeated data gets compressed away; novel data takes up space.
So you can slow down your time perception by making your life less compressible. Do things differently; make bigger changes in your life more often; make more milestones; take more trips; change things up; be random.
- darkclouds 3y ago> as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences Yes. I cant believe how much of my life has been stolen by being kept captive in the UK.
- optomas 3y ago>A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences Experiential reference grows, reducing what "a long time" really means. At ten years old, a year is one tenth your life experience. At fifty years old, it is one fiftieth. Pretty simple. Agreement on the novel experiences. They do seem to reset the clock.
- smokel 3y agoPretty simple, but that would mean that an experienced minute would go 50 times as fast, and that is not the case. Also (as I tried to get at in a sibling comment), I don't see how this would work internally. Why would time perception be relative to all experience? What is the use of that, and how would it be accomplished? Why don't we have this with other sensory input, such as vision or hearing?