172 sats \ 6 replies \ @nullama 19 Mar \ on: Stacker Saloon
The older I get, the faster time passes. It's crazy.
I remember as a kid playing Super Mario World for what it felt like an eternity, and yet it was simply one day.
Now it seems like time flies, I barely look into something and bam!, the day is gone.
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Hard to believe we are this far into the year already…
My amateur speculation is that time passes more slowly when we're taking in lots of new information.
When we're young, more is new, so time passes more slowly.
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I have found two explanations of this phenomena:
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The older a person gets, every fixed amount of time, say an hour, a day, a year, etc, is smaller and smaller compared to your whole life. For example, when you are 2 years old, one year is half your life, but it's only 1% when you are 100.
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Your brain stores memories more frequently when experiencing something novel. This can make you feel that a longer time has passed when you are doing a lot of new things compared to when you are doing the same every day.
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