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Originally Posted by Shasown

Nah I think you have missed my point, you obviously dont have kids, an example, I tell my 11 year old "in five minutes" to something she has asked, I can bet a pound to a pinch of shit she will ask again before 3 minutes are up, I will look at the clock and say "no wait" That3 minutes she actualy waited seems to her like hours, I can sit and watch her fidget.

However if I were to gauge 5 minutes it would either be about 5 minutes or just over.

Our brains are excited when we learn, they are sponges, they want to learn, we cant feed them experience fast enough, as we age the brain learns to accept the concept of what we know as time, therefore it savours the learning experience and almost equates its own clock with time as we know it.

Yep, I do agree with you when it concerns brain activity and the restless nature of children which contrasts so tellingly with that of our own, but I just wanted to add that I believe that it takes more of an effort to immerse oneself in that kinda learning enviroment because, as you said, we have slowed down in a certain sense and our brains have a rhythm/habit of their own. Old dog new tricks type of jobby. I'm generalizing obviously, but it seems to me that most adults are too busy worrying to really enjoy reading. Tv is just a drug for many to "chill out" to.

But yeah, I remember how long the trip up to my grandparents was a child... it got shorter and shorter as I aged. Mad how that works.