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kentuck

(111,104 posts) Mon Jul 20, 2015, 01:35 PM Jul 2015

Time goes faster as you get older?

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http://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9003175/years-passing-visualization

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Is how fast time goes by a function of how old you are?

This interactive visualization by designer Maximilian Kiener makes that argument. It shows that the longer you live, the relative significance of any particular year of your life goes down.

So, for instance, for a 2-year-old, a single year is a full half of their young life. Every moment is a bigger part of the whole.
When you're 2, every moment means a lot.

Maximillan Kiener

When you're 2, every moment means a lot.

By 30, that's changed a lot. For an average 30-year-old, a single year is just 3.33 percent of their life.

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Time goes faster as you get older? (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2015 OP

It certainly seems to, but there's an answer. MineralMan Jul 2015 #1

Also, the perceived value of that unit of time jomin41 Jul 2015 #2

Partial to the novelty argument Prism Jul 2015 #3

Been saying that for years ... ThePhilosopher04 Jul 2015 #4

I can remember a time in which it seemed like my kids would always be 3 and 5. lumberjack_jeff Jul 2015 #5

Perception is everything. On Netflix, there's a terrific closeupready Jul 2015 #6

When you're "over the hill", you pick up speed on the way down. panader0 Jul 2015 #7

Hey! I Resemble That Remark! ProfessorGAC Jul 2015 #8

I'll have to remember that one! kentuck Jul 2015 #10

Patience is a virtue olddots Jul 2015 #9

MineralMan

(146,318 posts)

1. It certainly seems to, but there's an answer.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 01:43 PM

Jul 2015

Just look back from time to time. That's what I do. I review things that happened decades ago, and that gets my time sense back on track. From time to time, I replay specific events from my past and reflect on them as they relate to today. It's an interesting exercise and tends to restore my clock to normal operation.

jomin41

(559 posts)

2. Also, the perceived value of that unit of time

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 02:19 PM

Jul 2015

increases as you age.

Prism

(5,815 posts)

3. Partial to the novelty argument

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 02:27 PM

Jul 2015

When one day looks like the other looks like the rest of the week looks like the rest of the month, the mind stops differentiating and paying attention. It's like the driving home illusion. You get in your car, start driving, and suddenly you've arrived with no memory of having driven. Your brain dumped the useless routine information. (If, however, you came close to getting into an accident, you'd remember it because it was a novel experience).

One thing I've noticed as I get older is that I have trouble telling days apart. Since Monday through Friday look very similar, which day I did what ends up smooshed together. Entire months can end up in a goopy mass of vague recollection, "Oh, I did that thing somewhere in there. Maybe two weeks or so ago. Who knows."

I have a very, very set schedule of work, gym, eat, home stuff during the week. It's all a blur.

Weekends, though! Those last forever, because I try to do different things. Vacations also stretch on and on. A vacation two weeks ago felt a month long. It was wonderful.