> we get older we spend more of our cognitive cycles thinking in terms of abstractions rather than using our senses to process direct experience. This would ex

> we get older we spend more of our cognitive cycles thinking in terms of abstractions rather than using our senses to process direct experience. This would explain why vacation makes time slow down, yet go fast at the same time. The slow down for the new experiences, environment. The fast - for the lookahead-cache driven feeling of sometimes anxiety/dread of going back to the daily routine.