[Christmas Dynasnow]

As we grow older, it can often feel like time goes by faster and faster. ... Focusing on visual perception, Bejan posits that slower processing times result in us perceiving fewer 'frames-per-second' – more actual time passes between the perception of each new mental image. This is what leads to time passing more rapidly.

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20...more%20rapidly.

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

As we grow older, it can often feel like time goes by faster and faster. ... Focusing on visual perception, Bejan posits that slower processing times result in us perceiving fewer 'frames-per-second' – more actual time passes between the perception of each new mental image. This is what leads to time passing more rapidly.

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20...more%20rapidly.

There is also another angle. When you are a toddler, everything you encounter is brand new and exciting, your brain is sucking in new information constantly. There are so many stimulating events that time crawls because you have so many new things to remember. When i was in primary school, school holidays literally lasted an age

As you go through the education system and get your first job, get married, buy a house etc. You continue to have regular stimulation, so time will pass faster than as a kid. Get to 30+ and there is less and less new stimulation so time passes much faster

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

There is also another angle. When you are a toddler, everything you encounter is brand new and exciting, your brain is sucking in new information constantly. There are so many stimulating events that time crawls because you have so many new things to remember. When i was in primary school, school holidays literally lasted an age

As you go through the education system and get your first job, get married, buy a house etc. You continue to have regular stimulation, so time will pass faster than as a kid. Get to 30+ and there is less and less new stimulation so time passes much faster

yes the brain is able to say "yep i know the script and lets move on|" where as before it was like "wait, what is this let me take time to process"

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

There is also another angle. When you are a toddler, everything you encounter is brand new and exciting, your brain is sucking in new information constantly. There are so many stimulating events that time crawls because you have so many new things to remember. When i was in primary school, school holidays literally lasted an age

As you go through the education system and get your first job, get married, buy a house etc. You continue to have regular stimulation, so time will pass faster than as a kid. Get to 30+ and there is less and less new stimulation so time passes much faster

This basically, we remember time based on the gaps between novel memories. That's why childhood/teens/early 20's feel like they were a much larger span of time than the 20 years that follows.

Sooo... for anyone who was actually following the guidelines, 2020 should feel like it flew by, staring at our 4 walls all year .

On the other hand - it sort of feels like a LOT happened this year. Aussie fires, Covid, Tiger King, BLM, US presidency, more Covid...

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

This basically, we remember time based on the gaps between novel memories. That's why childhood/teens/early 20's feel like they were a much larger span of time than the 20 years that follows.



Sooo... for anyone who was actually following the guidelines, 2020 should feel like it flew by, staring at our 4 walls all year .



On the other hand - it sort of feels like a LOT happened this year. Aussie fires, Covid, Tiger King, BLM, US presidency, more Covid...

Yeah this is how it feels for me, it seems to have flown but also feels like a lifetime ago since life was normal