Time - Why does it seem to go by so fast now?

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It feels like everything before is just a blur and time just seems to pass by me so quickly. I wish I could stop it, but the only thing in life is living presently and moving forward, regardless of how time passes.

What are kiwis thoughts on how time seems to pass?
 
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The older I get, the faster it goes by and I hate the fact that no one ever warned me about that, it catches you off guard.

I remember when a single year felt like a really long time, I remember when a decade was an incredibly long period of time and 20 years ago was something I couldn't remember at all or just barely.

Now a year feels like what a few months used to feel like, a decade or close to it can feel like yesterday and 20 years is something I can very clearly remember even if it does feel like a long time ago (basically what a single decade used to feel like)
 
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Time is?
 
Dom Cruise said:
The older I get, the faster it goes by and I hate the fact that no one ever warned me about that, it catches you off guard.

I remember when a single year felt like a really long time, I remember when a decade was an incredibly long period of time and 20 years ago was something I couldn't remember at all or just barely.

Now a year feels like what a few months used to feel like, a decade or close to it can feel like yesterday and 20 years is something I can very clearly remember even if it does feel like a long time ago (basically what a single decade used to feel like)
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I feel your pain, my friend.

"Temporal Gearshift" is as good an explanation as any.
 
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It feels like everything before is just a blur and time just seems to pass by me so quickly. I wish I could stop it, but the only thing in life is living presently and moving forward, regardless of how time passes.

What are kiwis thoughts on how time seems to pass?
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I think its either, your concept of time stretches as you age, so when you're 5, 5 years is the longest time you have experienced, so 1 year feels like 1/5 of that. whereas when you're 20, 20 years is the longest time you have experienced, so a year feels like 1/20th of that. Or its to do with memory storage/time. Same kinda thing though.

Edit: Uncle Buck beat me to the punch.
 
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I remember sitting in school in 1st or 2nd grade and watching the clock tick at the end of the day. 10 minutes felt like an eternity.

It's crazy to me how vivid those memories are and how incredibly different my perception of time was as a child.
 
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What's amusing is how it catches every generation by surprise, without fail. Must do, since it's one of the three complaints* that goes back as far as we've got writing.

"The young are useless" - people been whining about that since Homer
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"You never write." - that goes back at least 3000 years, when some unknow Egyptian mother wrote to her son.
 
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They say the days get longer and the years get shorter.

If time going faster bothers you though, get into weed and stimulants lolol
 
Dom Cruise said:
The older I get, the faster it goes by and I hate the fact that no one ever warned me about that, it catches you off guard.

I remember when a single year felt like a really long time, I remember when a decade was an incredibly long period of time and 20 years ago was something I couldn't remember at all or just barely.

Now a year feels like what a few months used to feel like, a decade or close to it can feel like yesterday and 20 years is something I can very clearly remember even if it does feel like a long time ago (basically what a single decade used to feel like)
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I think this illusion relates to memory somehow. Time seems to fly if I compare now to a point years ago, yet every day feels like it drags on forever.
 
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Shig O'nella said:
What's amusing is how it catches every generation by surprise, without fail. Must do, since it's one of the three complaints* that goes back as far as we've got writing.
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I try to warn younger cousins about it, one of them I think kind of took it heart, the other it seemed to go over his head, I get it though, it's one of those things that's hard to imagine without actually experiencing it yourself.

If you told me when I was around 16/17/18 that the friggin' year 2022 would arrive way sooner than I thought I would have thought that impossible.

RMQualtrough said:
I think this illusion relates to memory somehow. Time seems to fly if I compare now to a point years ago, yet every day feels like it drags on forever.
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For me a day feels like it ends just as it's getting started.
 
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Reference.
When you are young you Don't have much to compare it to, as you get older it increases. Hence "time flies"
 
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Yeah, I feel like this a lot but I think it has to do less with age and more with general happiness and health at least in my case. When I’m happy time feels like it did when I was a little kid, moving at a slow crawl such that every day feels like an eternity of nothing going on when I’m bored. When I’m depressed however things seem to go mercilessly fast, though I think that may just be due to the fact that I actively try to remember less of what transpired during those periods. That may be it actually. What if the perceived time is proportional to memories accumulated? We spend so much time doing menial mindless tasks as adults that we space out more I think and operate in some cases without remembering the small details in between and as such it appears to be a significantly shorter span of time.
 
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thank you, @Uncle Buck, that's a really interesting article.

"We can think of a camera, film, projector, and movie as metaphors to represent a central part of visual memory and its relationship to time.
Like frames in a movie, the more frames one sees in a second the slower the image appears to pass. The fewer frames one sees per second the faster the image seems to move. In other words, slow motion reveals many more frames-per-second than normal motion or fast motion. Bejan asserts that as we age our brain’s neurovisual memory formation equipment slows and lays down fewer “frames-per-second.” That is, more actual time passes between the perception of each new mental image. Children perceive and lay down more memory frames or mental images per unit of time than adults, so when they remember events—that is, the passage of time—they recall more visual data."
" The root cause of this subjective, temporal gearshift, Bejan argues, is that the size and complexity of our brains’ neural networks increase as we mature and continue to age. This means electrochemical signals must traverse greater distances and span more pathways thus slowing signal processing. Moreover, aging causes nerves to accumulate damage that creates greater resistance to the flow of signals, further slowing processing time."

i think this is similar, but distinct from what the the above poster is saying, too. my mind often wanders while i'm working, and even though i know that memories, as sheer neural impulses, are being formed, there's a different quality to things i remember from work, and things i remember from childhood.
 
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One way to know if it's either the fact that being 50 means one year is only 2% of their life compared to a ten year old where its 10% of their life vs our neural "processors" slowing down as we age is maybe people with really bad amnesia.

Say a 20 year old gets into a really bad accident and can only remember the past two years for example. Would that make their perspective of time change since now they feel like they have only "lived" for two years? I do know amnesia doesn't just delete all memory and they would maybe remember some things, but honestly im just speculating. I admit i'm not really familiar with exactly how amnesia works.

I feel like im missing something. Honestly its probably a combination of both.
 
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