Time Speed

[Drugsgear]

Do you know this feeling that you have just woken up but the day is coming to an end already?

I don't really know if it's my imagination, but I think the time flies much faster now.
I started to notice that the speed of time changed for me, everything is so much faster, so much to do, so little time...

 

[Multislacking]

The older you get, the more this happens. Every chunk of time (like a day) is now a smaller overall percentage of your life. When you're a 10yr old kid, a year seems like a long time because it is 1/10 of your life span. When you hit 50yrs old, a year seems to go pretty quickly because it is only 2% of your lifespan.

 

[Drugsgear]

That's a very wise observation of yours. Hope we all live till 150 and see how the time flies then, when it constitutes only 0,6% of your lifespan.)

The older you get, the more this happens. Every chunk of time (like a day) is now a smaller overall percentage of your life. When you're a 10yr old kid, a year seems like a long time because it is 1/10 of your life span. When you hit 50yrs old, a year seems to go pretty quickly because it is only 2% of your lifespan.

 

[solidassears]

Do you know this feeling that you have just woken up but the day is coming to an end already?

I don't really know if it's my imagination, but I think the time flies much faster now.
I started to notice that the speed of time changed for me, everything is so much faster, so much to do, so little time...

Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end you get the faster the paper goes

 

[Drugsgear]

Unfortunately, there is no chance of getting the second "roll of life", as soon as the first one is finished, so we better use it with care.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end you get the faster the paper goes

 

[Drugsgear]

[FONT=&quot]According to Duke University (NC, USA) J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Adrian Bejan, this apparent temporal discrepancy is due to our aging brains obtaining and processing images much slower.
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[FONT=&quot]“People are often amazed at how much they remember from days that seemed to last forever in their youth,” commented Bejan. “It’s not that their experiences were much deeper or more meaningful, it’s just that they were being processed in rapid fire.”
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[FONT=&quot]As we grow older, our nerves and neurons also grow, meaning signals must travel further along these pathways. These pathways are also degrading as we age, so the signals are experiencing more resistance.
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[FONT=&quot]These factors lead to a decreased rate of the acquisition and processing of mental images, resulting in the feeling that time is passing more quickly because we cannot view the same volume of images in the same amount of time as we did when we were younger. This is also evidenced in why babies move their eyes around so frequently – they are processing images much quicker and so move their eyes more frequently to gain more information.
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[FONT=&quot]“The human mind senses time changing when the perceived images change,” explained Bejan. “The present is different from the past because the mental viewing has changed, not because somebody’s clock rings. Days seemed to last longer in your youth because the young mind receives more images during one day than the same mind in old age.”[/FONT]