re: Time going by faster as you age.

I saw a study that suggested that our perception of time was influenced by the familiarity of the experience. So new experiences caused time to move more slowly, while routine experiences caused our perception of time to speed up. Which I think coincidences with your experience.

Think about when you’re a child, one day is a much larger portion of your total memory. So a day seems less significant. And technically I guess it is.
1/365 cs 1/3650 from one year to 10.

I have an issue with thinking something happened 2 years ago and in reality it was a decade ago...

Days go by faster, months go by faster, and years fly by as well. No doubt about it.

Yesterday I was looking for money to pay my bills and go out on. Today I’m planning for retirement.

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saw a study that suggested that our perception of time was influenced by the familiarity of the experience. So new experiences caused time to move more slowly, while routine experiences caused our perception of time to speed up. Which I think coincidences with your experience

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My main hang-up with this line of thinking, not that I disagree entirely and can only speak for myself, but when you go on a vacation for instance, typically speaking that’s a new experience. I’ve never gone on a vacation that seemed to pass by slower than my daily routine back home. Another one, I don’t have any kids but I’ve always heard people say (and it’s also corroborated by posts in this thread) that time flies by when your kids are infants and to always cherish it. Especially so with your first one. These are new experiences that are generally accepted as passing by in the blink of an eye. So for me, I don’t see this as the prevailing reason.

Idk days still drag at the plant.

Could also go back to learning like someone else said on the first page.

Everything is new, once you’re in your grind...the world becomes “old hat.”

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There is not a drug in my system outside of a minor amount of Mr Bourbon; But as I age, a day seems to go by quicker than a 50 minute class of high school as I remember it. It’s like each year that passes by, the clock ticks a little faster. Im not sad about it, but I notice it more and more.

Such a weird feeling

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I’ve always had a theory on this. At 50 years old, a year is 1/50th of your life. At 5 years old, a year was 1/5 of your life. As a percentage of the amount of time you’ve experienced in your life, a year is shorter now than it was then and you experience it as such. It’s the only explanation that makes sense to me

ETA: apparently a lot of people have the same thoughts I do

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I used to think about this a lot. I’ve decided that time passes by faster as you age because you have lived more days/years than ever before. When you’re 25 a year holds much less significance in your perception of time than when you are say only 4 years old and a year represents 25% of your conscious experiences, making it seem like an eternity

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This has been my working hypothesis also. Some argue that it has more to do with how the brain processes new things v. familiar things. The brain tends to give less emphasis to familiar things. That’s why our perception of time after driving on the same road over and over can make the trip seem quicker. It seems longer when you are unfamiliar with the road and shorter after you’ve pretty much memorized the landscape, road signs, landmarks, etc.