I find it's actually ridiculous how fast time goes now. It seems to me as soon as I finished school, that's when time really started to go by fast. I find time goes so fast I have to rush to get anything done or the day is gone just like that.
No, it doesn't.
If you really like the feeling of time going slowly, try laying in a hospital bed recovering after a surgery. I was only 3 days like that, bound to my bed by tubes and wires, and it felt like an eternity.
Lot of you guys are completely missing the point.
No one is arguing that 1 min is not a min or day is not a day....time always goes by at the same pace.
HOWEVER, due to our span of existence on this planet, longer you live the faster the time goes as these measurements become fractions of what it used to be.
No one is arguing that 1 min is not a min or day is not a day....time always goes by at the same pace.
Make up your mind.My father told me about this back 10-15 years ago and as I age time certainly seems to fly SO much faster. Truth is, it doesn't actually "seem", it does go faster!
If you really like the feeling of time going slowly, try laying in a hospital bed recovering after a surgery. I was only 3 days like that, bound to my bed by tubes and wires, and it felt like an eternity.
That has no bearing on the correct explanation for the topic at hand.
Look - no ratios! He can't possibly be right then.
I also agree with what you posted as well. The theories are not incompatible. Sorry to rain on your righteous nerd parade.
Yeah being in that situation would suck. Seems if you are having fun or simply have lot to do, time goes by super fast, if you are in a boring/crappy situation then it goes super slow.
Oddly, even 12 hour night shifts go by pretty quick I find. Faster than 12 hour day shifts.
Okay, that's completely different from when you said that time literally goes faster as you age.
Well, if you really think about it....it does go faster.
Well, if you really think about it....it does go faster.
It's hormones and energy. When you are a kid you are taking in everything around you. You have energy, you move quicker, you think quicker, everything is new and fun. So time seems to go way slower around you. Because it seems much more is happening, more to take in, more to process. Think of it this way, you're on crazy scary roller coaster, it seems to last for ages, yet it's just a few minutes.
So if I spent 10 years watching an atomic clock and someone else only spent 5 years watching an atomic clock, and we then communicated what our clocks read 15 years later they would be different? Because that seems pretty unlikely, if you really think about it.
I am not arguing with your math as far as ratios, but the human variable throws the "hard math" out the window. I cannot speak for anyone else because we all perceive the passage of time differently, but the years definitely seem shorter now that I am older as a whole. However, there have also certain situations, relationships, and drugs that vastly altered my perception of time passing by a large amount, although temporarily.
Trying to boil down life to a math equation seems kind of sad to me, but that is part of why people are so great in their variety, because collectively we have done a lot of cool things.
There is an exception to EVERY rule.
Regardless if you want to accept this fact or dismiss it.
There is an exception to EVERY rule.
In general, 1/10th of your life will feel much longer than 1/30th or 1/60th of your life.
Regardless if you want to accept this fact or dismiss it.
Changes in temporal perception with aging[edit source | editbeta]
Psychologists have found that a human's perception of the passing of time tends to speed up with increasing age, which causes older people to increasingly underestimate a given interval of time.[15] Very young children literally "live in time" before gaining an awareness of its passing. A child will first experience the passing of time when he or she can subjectively perceive and reflect on the unfolding of a collection of events. The awareness of time improves during childhood as children's attention and short-term memory capacities develop, a process dependent on the slow maturation of the prefrontal cortex. One day to an eleven-year-old would be approximately 1/4,000 of their life, while one day to a 55-year-old would be approximately 1/20,000 of their life. This helps to explain why, on average, a random day usually appears much longer for a young child than for an adult.[16]
The common explanation is that most external and internal experiences are new for young children, while most experiences are comfortably and boringly repetitive for adults. Children have to be extremely engaged (i.e., dedicate many neural resources or much brain power) in the present moment, because they must constantly reconfigure their mental models of the world to assimilate it and properly behave within it. On the contrary, most adults fall into mental habits and external routines that they rarely step outside of. When an adult experiences this overstimulation of the same stimuli, it somewhat renders said stimuli "invisible", because they have sufficiently and effectively mapped it in their brain- a phenomenon known as neural adaptation. As a consequence, an adult's perception of time speeds up because they will literally pay less attention to the continuous unfolding and duration of events. In an experiment comparing a group of subjects aged between 19 and 24 and a group between 60 and 80 asked to estimate when they thought 3 minutes had passed, it was found that the younger group's estimate was on average 3 minutes and 3 seconds, while the older group averaged 3 minutes and 40 seconds, indicating a significant change in one's perception of time with age.[17]