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I have been thinking this a biological thing...consider another similar example, e.g. seeing a movie, commercial or something for the first time. Regardless of
by rue 18y ago
I have been thinking this a biological thing...consider another similar example, e.g. seeing a movie, commercial or something for the first time. Regardless of age, subsequent times have always felt faster than the first one to me.
From this, I entirely unscientifically surmise that the extra time experience comes from the creation of pathways and whatnot in the brain--which occurs less often the older you get. The more specific explanations could be actual spare cycles in the brain that are only used then encountering something new, or more plausibly, the ratio of conscious vs. unconscious cycles or plain stimulation of the regions responsible for time comprehension.
- angstrom 18y agoNew experiences are always more vivid. The more unusual it is to your previous experience the move vivid it becomes in your mind. Take for instance travel. Driving someplace new you're more alert about the course since you don't know what to expect. Once you've repeated it a few times or hundreds of times, like say driving to work, it becomes predictable. As long as traffic is moving along at a decent pace, you're perfectly oblivious to the passage of time. Now take skydiving or bungee jumping for the first time as another example. You may free fall for 5-30 seconds, but the adrenaline pumping in your brain makes it seem like slow motion. You remember every vivid detail. After 1000 jumps it's nothing near the vividness of the first 10. The only lesson I've been able to draw from this is that if you want life to slow down you have to live it and experience new things.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoThis is a good reason to learn to love traveling: you're always doing and seeing new things.