Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
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- Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down?
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Ageing and duration judgement:
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Experiments with rats suggest time perception is distributed across brain:
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Time perception with repeated stimuli:
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Energy usage in brain with age:
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Time perception in moments of fear / danger:
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The duration of a minute depends on wich side of the bathroom´s door you´re in.
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true hahaha!
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Indeed xD @@CrazyFunnyCats
"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything's different."
-C.S Lewis
time flies so much when you are in lockdown
So true..
The future and the past actually look identical to me. Except that the future is a fantasy.
Nice quote.
@@eduardoureta8006 of course it's because you are asleep
I personally think it’s an illusion. Like the older you get, the more you become used to living the same routine to the point where every day feels like the same day. Then when we look back, we’re shocked that a lot of time went by quickly when in reality it was moving normally.
Edit: Why is this random comment from a year ago now just getting replies?
Absolutely true 😪
@@sasacrapanzano wow that's a POV I never thought of ! That makes sense
Literally this is what I was thinking too. When you're young you explore new things about life and yourself frequently. The difference of your life (or your perception of your life) at age 10 and age 15 is very different. However this is not the same for the ages of 60 and 80. You're pretty much set by 60, you know what you enjoy, what you hate. Thus, you live accordingly. Of course you can still do new things learn things but the chances are it's gonna be less. So, maybe to avoid this "illusion" if we don't live a monotonous life and do new things frequently we can slow our sense of time at the older ages.
Yep, that's what I was thinking too.
@@legendgb1 Agreed. I am 68, and fill my life with different activities. Building natural stone walls in my large garden, designing and building amplifiers, learning multiple languages, working through textbooks on complex analysis and differential geometry, plenty of foreign travel, and plenty more. Treasurer for local charity. Socialising with friends and neighbours in the local pubs is a huge part of being happy. The years go by slowly for me. I can imagine time goes very quickly if all you do is watch TV at home all day.
I'm 25, and this very concept was giving me panic attacks recently.
The most recent episode was last week. I was thinking about my mom, she died from Covid in 2021, for me it was like yesterday. The month she spent in the ICU was very long, and for me that month solely was longer than the last two years.
When the realization occurred i've had a panic attack.
Watching this make me feel so less overwhelmed by it.
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I'm 22, about to be 23, and probably a month from now I'll be looking back and wondering how it's been an entire month since I wrote this.
It's made me discouraged because I haven't accomplished a fraction of what I hoped to in life. But, the more I think about it the more discouraged it makes me, and that's the problem... It can become a vicious loop if you're not careful. Honestly what helps me is reminding myself that the mind has quite a lot of power over the body. If you make yourself do more things instead of over-sleeping or putting them off, you will feel like you haven't wasted as much time
@@jayall00 Im 23 and I gonna be 24 this August. And I guess I feel the same way. I guess since I graduated Hugh school in 2019 and the the pandemic started the fallowing year I haven't had much to do other than writing my books.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095 That pandemic made me lose like most of my motivation to do anything, however it did get me to focus all of my time on personal hobbies like guitar playing. I'd say it was a miracle in that aspect. You're definitely not alone though, it affected everybody. That year reminded all of us how easy it is for life to take such a sudden, drastic turn
I wanted to slow time, so I switched over to Internet Explorer.
+Sikh Atheist you can also try use dial-up internet, so time will pass really slower
*XDDDDDDDDDD*
ابو ليث الخطيب Fail
Your patience level must have sky-rocketed!
Sikh Atheist 😂😂
I always felt bad when my wife tells me that our sex doesn't last very long.
Now i can tell her it only feels quick because how much she is enjoying herself...
To which she'll reply, "10 seconds isn't long enough for me to enjoy myself"
Or just get a new wife every few years.
for an hour feels like an hour
LOL! Cheers for that
benD'anon fawkes Must be newly wed. You still have sex.
Also wanted to mention as kids, we have less on our plate to deal with, our priority is having fun, socializing, etc, and as we age, we face bigger problems that can affect our everyday thinking, as we constantly HAVE to either be planning or worrying. Everything was also new to us (we’ve never experienced life) so it made every day feel like a new journey.
Wish it was still like this…
Thinking about it, its amazing how we dont prioritize fun, its more so survival and keeping things running, kids all they want and try to get is fun, and there is no going back to that if youre trapped in the adult life of responsibilities
@@raykarpp Makes me think of John Lennon’s song “It’s so hard”: “you gotta eat, you gotta drink.”
I do think that there is a way to prioritize fun more. You can make choices in life that make your life feel better. But it may require sacrifices or taking risks. And you probably need some luck as well. I call myself lucky that my hobby turned into a job.
And yet I don't miss being a kid. Being the captain of my own ship, however hard, is a great feeling.
Being a kid just feels better than being a adult just my opinion, I'm a adult now maybe my opinion could change back when I was a kid I didn't have to go to therapy or take meds because life was easier back then , you don't have a big load when youre a kid but when you're a adult you have 1000 things to do , it sucks , I wish I can go back to being a kid so much better times , and that's was before covid happened . Ah good days don't last long , but bad days seems to last longer
I guess the most incredible thing about this video is it's comments session. The video gets people of multiple ages and in multiple points in time and in multiple places in the world to share their perception of time and life experiences, and this is so enriching. I mean, it is incredible to read a 14 year old person talking about the shift he had from when he was 9, which was 5 years ago, and then reading a 63 year old talking about how the last decade passed so fast. I mean, everything one saw in it's entire life happened in what it feels like yesterday to the other. And probably none of these people are now, while you're reading this, the age they were when they said those things.
As of now, I'm 30, but I don't feel like it is fair. I mean, how could I be 30 years old today if it feels like it was last year that I was 23, when this video came out 7 years ago?
No one can escape death and time, it's a part of our life, time will keep on moving and will never know how fast it is taking us to our end
I feel the same way, at 37 the days are passing by really quickly. I believe hearing what he said at 4:57 about worrying speeding it up even more made me regret watching a video from 7 years ago. I had hoped for a miraculous way to decrease the perception of time passing, but reading comments from older people than me, it seems like it only gets worse. Hello, thanatophobia!
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The easiest way to slow down time:
Do a plank
Za warudo technic
You just reminded me of my daily plank, thank you
Yess
God damn yes
Yess I was thinking the same thing😂
In terms of vacation (let's say 2 weeks) I always felt that time passes much slower than 2 weeks of daily work, I think it's more connected to the new information going into the brain, a movie appears to end faster when you already watched it rather than the first time watching it. Life's the same, when you are kid, every experience is new, when you get older, you do everyday dozens of things you've already done a lot of times, so the brain erases repetitive memories. You won't remember exactly what you've done a random day back in 2016, but you'll remember with detail the day that you graduated just because it's a unique experience to your brain.
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I’m self employed and my weeks absolutely fly by. When I go on holiday for two weeks, like you say it feels wayyy longer, more like a month.
I find it interesting that if you are running late for something, going to the movies for example, time seems to speed up.
but if you are early for something, and decide to kill time by going for a walk around the block, for example, time seems to slow down, and just a few minutes will have passed.
This happens at any age.
*Meanwhile me in math class: *
Checks time : 8: 45 AM
after 5 mins
Checks time again: 8: 30 AM
Your math class is inside a Kerr blackhole, right?
shantanu jain my one is in a Kerr black hole
Damm relateble🤣🤣🤣
Wow, this could be a Big problem, feeling that almost a day past in just 5 minutes
@@denyraw no but Kerr blackholes do require a lot of maths so I guess in a way yeah
You’re right, when I was on elementary school, 1 year felt like 50 years!
But you've never lived over 50 years then so you cant be sure it felt that long.. 😕😕
Charlottew2001 + Exactly what I thought, but what if he’s 100?...
Good point 😅 then hes doing well, wanting to comment on youtube, he must be extremely healthy for his age 😃
Charlottew2001 + Yup
Mark L. Lmao
Basically in childhood it's our first time experiencing the world around us, so we spend a lot of time looking at tiny details and imagining how things work
By the time we reach adulthood, we overlook a lot of those same details. A combination of a repetitive routine and work stress coping via forgetting what happened during the day creates the perceived acceleration of time
lets cut out your hypothalamus and see if time fly's by faster for you after the surgery
Yep, that's how I would explain it too. Well to be fair the video mentions it but in a different way.
But i think another missing factor is having way more time to kill when you're younger. It's mostly school, including any extra curricular activities, and everything else outside of that. No stresses, no worries for the most part and a lot less repetitive routine work. As an adult, we get bombarded with mostly mundane tasks literally every single day and a set routine when it comes to work. The days mesh and even get lost. This results in thinking time is flying when we're just merely to busy to even notice it.
I never even did anything worth remembering in my childhood 😂😂
@@iiCounted-op5jx Bro you missed out a lot on your childhood
When you were 2 years old, 1 year was half of your life and as such it feels like a long time. When you're 80 years old, 1 year is a small fraction of the total amount of time you've experienced. The more days, weeks, months, and years you go through. the faster they will feel. I had a calculus professor in college explain this phenomena to us as he in essence said we experience time logarithmically.
When I was young, I imagined old people feeling as though they had been around forever. Turns out exactly the opposite is true. The older you get the shorter your time here seems. It's the young who feel like they have been here forever.
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@@capitaopacoca8454 yeah Ed def feels that way and if you say inshallah it goes slower brotha
Well it's because you focus on job and other stuff so much, you barely have free time to feel the time slowing go away, as we were kids we have a lot of free time, hang out with friends, go to school and summer time have ton of free times. Gosh I wish I was young again
@@smugglercat6638 you're a kid at heart take a vacation and live like a kid again it's your mind that perceives time not your soul so go have fun
@@smugglercat6638 I feel that way sometimes too. I even think that it might be good in a sense. As a sort of guidance or check up with your younger self. There is this album called "Days" by Real Estate. And for me it just perfectly captures this complex feeling. It has this easy summery vibe to it, yet at the same time this deeper sense of nostalgia too. It is profound yet simple at the same time. Its just very beautiful to me. When I listen to It, it brings me back there, to this feeling I had when I was teen, riding my bike around during warm summer nights and trying to find beer hanging out with friends. Simple things. Maybe its because I used to listen to that album at the time too, so now the music just brings me back to my best memories. But even today I find some peace listening to it simply driving around windows down. Makes me relive this feeling that I had back then. Something that is so hard to put into words. Anyway I though maybe it would make you feel the same way.
I'm 28. 8 years ago, when I was 20, feels like it was literally JUST yesterday. But then if you asked 20 year old me to remember 8 years before that, when I was 12, I would definitely say that that felt like an eternity. It's so odd how fast time goes as you get older.
the way to really slow it down is to keep a daily journal, and record the day's events. When a year passes, look back to reflect over all that you did/had, and you'll see how long a year is. The more you forget, the faster time seems to go by.
I’m 20 and reading this lowkey made me really sad
@@jackson5116 I'm 26 and for me, I think the more I remember the faster time goes... because when I look back and have a thought or remember something I saw from years ago it seems like it seems like it was just yesterday. The only advice I would give someone is to see new things and learn new things as much as possible (2 things you do a lot of when you are younger). Because then you will focus more on the present and time will go slower. Time will never be able to go as slow as when you were younger because when you are young you have practically no memories. That's just life.
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@@peenhead9938 That's exactly it. When I was in my teens any events I remembered from my childhood seemed like an eternity ago since I didn't remember much between the events. But as you get older and remember more and more, even the mundane things, it really puts into perspective how fast time does go!
Back when I was 14, every year used to feel like an eternity. From 14 to 15, I had become a completely different person in just a year.. From 15 to 16, I saw massive mental and physical transformation.. Each year Felt like a lifetime.. Then came the 20s. In my 20s, last 3 years passed by in the blink of an eye.. Since covid 19, time just flashed by.. 3 years felt like a few months..
So true brother
As a teen, I will say that 2010 to 2016 feels significantly longer than 2016 to now.
I started to feel time go by too fast when I was 12… it hasn’t stopped
@@Z-nl3ln how old r u now???
@@zulqarnainhaider4739 15 I know I’m young but this thing stresses me out and I feel like it ruins my teenage years
Im experiencing this at 24 now, but precisely it started on my 20s, i got to 21, 22, 23 and 24 like a year was a month. Incredible, time befor 18 years old was waaaay slow, a year was an eternity, now a year to me is like 6 months.
For example i remember as yesterday when it was the first of the year and now were in 12th of June, time flies for me
Im experiencing it heavy now at 23 but the past 6 years have been like it
brutal, is there any particular reason it went faster after 18?
I watched this on 1.5 speed because I'm old and don't have time
That's what Iv'ebeen doing this year.. 2x speeds everything now... i can't waste my time any more.. I just stay oun youtube for 2 hrs per day...
@@RatusMax Same
You wasted the time you saved on writing this comment
@@RatusMax I wish I had 2 hours to spend on youtube
Nah, it's just cuz you're old and the time flies faster for you.
This explains 2020. Being bored during quarantine made the time feel slower, like it lasted forever. But since there were so few novel experiences, fewer memories were made, and looking back the year seems so short...
this is exactly how i feel man.. idk what to do :/
Not for me I loved being alone and doing nothing, it means I don’t need an excuse to play video games all day.
Introverts - yes!
I’m sure a lot of loners relate but I felt like time moved by faster because of how much free time I had to do whatever I wanted.
As evil as it sounds, quarantine felt too short..
true
when I was little I remember It felt like I had all the time in the world and never needed to worry about anything. I could play games, hang out with friends, etc. Now it feels like my life is whizzing by and I went on a trip to visit my cousins months ago and it still feels like that was just yesterday and that time is just going by way to fast. This also is one of the reasons for my depression and anxiety. I just get stressed that my life keeps speeding up and I have to do more and more as I get older. It sucks.
I have always noticed that on a one week holiday, the first few days seem to go on forever and then the rest speeds by in a blur. This video kind of explains that phenomenon although I always thought that maybe it was because I was coming off a busy lifestyle to a relaxed one and once I had settled in to the holiday vibe then time went by as normal
Not just a holiday. I always experienced this with classes, sessions too.
When you graduate high school, that's the point when time starts to accelerate
Agreed
Yeah ... you get that job and you start paying BILLS & you end up in that repetitive and revolting door
@@tonykari5124 sounds fun...
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Facts
Exactly man Exactly!
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it spins.
Wise words of wisdom
@@animemoments2388 true lol 😂😂😂😂😂
This is beyond wisdom... this is philosophy :D
@@varunchand8546 XD
And the more likely it is to unwind and fall off !
Since 2020 everything seems happening in a very very fast way.
Facts
I've been pondering this lately, and this vid makes so much sense. I read some of my teen journals, from a time when everything seemed like an event - life was exciting with newness. Familiarity leads our brains to taking neural short cuts, that's also how we get better and faster at things we're learning. Hence a short cut in time, or a Wrinkle in Time. Suddenly we are here now.
meanwhile all my teen years from 14-18 were spent sitting at home rotting on a screen because of covid lol
I'm sorry ! Certainly your life is in more action now. The 20s can be a great time - I hope you're living it up while younger.
I remember when I was a younger waiting til Friday was like waiting a year
it felt like 1000000000000000000000 years
School like most people know sucks.
Me waiting Saturday for soccer practice it feels like 77 mill years
A Sunday vs a Monday...
Now it feels like a day :)
At 5 years old I realized that a minute passes at the same rate regardless of how I felt. It blew my mind and gave me a powerful super ability to be patient.
Patience gang!
Every 60 seconds a minute passes
Patience is a virtue but if you are a doctor then patients are a virtue
@@kozmosis3486 I have never heard such true wisdom
This thread is a W
i dont know how everyone else experiences this but when im at work,the closest to the lunch it gets ,time it gets more slower ,and when its past lunch time the time flies by.
3 years after COVID but feels like COVID was just year ago
Because we're enjoying it...seriously? (actually because of (repetition)
Me in an exam: 2 hours = 2 years
Me at the weekend: 2 days = 2 seconds
Wouldnt that mean that u were not in a flow and fucked ur exams up
@@gipus. No, exams just drag. Especially when you finish with a lot of time left
I think they're bith 2 seconds
@@seveneleven3479 exams are so long
My exams are not slow.. i have to write 6 pages just for 1 question (literally) Time always flies in an exam never able to complete it though.
I temporarily lost my daughter at a busy theme park when she was 3 years old. She had run off to a different section and was happily playing when my head was turned. She was gone for 20 minutes before I found her, but that 20 minutes seemed like several hours. And I don’t mean that figuratively, I was shocked when I checked the time on my phone.
Bruh, you started the sentence off like she actually died or was kidnapped, I had anxiety reading until the happy ending. 😂
@@phantomluffy9476 Brutal.
Call CPS on this guy, quick!
@@bryanbryan6108 what?
Couldve been 24 hours and the clock looped around
I think the main reason this happens is the focus thing. When we are a kid, everything is new as you said - and therefore we have a tremendous amount of information getting in our brain each day making them feel longer. When you grow up and start getting used to life, your attention is way more selective. Nobody tends to wake up and analyse in details every detail in the room for example, or in the street. We know the wall is a wall so our attention is not directed onto that. Same goes for actions and basically everything - we automatise things, driving - routines - dressing - so much things we don't need to focus on anymore.
This is then amplified by other things - we spend more time in our thoughts, because we now have concerns, complex thoughts, memories etc. And time spent in one's own mind makes the time feel very very fast, it's an abstraction from the present moment. Same goes for the flow thing you described, focusing a lot and giving it all for something means making abstraction of everything else around to purely focus on one thing, which means abstraction from the present moment again, and times feels faster. And with the high tech and connected society, it's even increased since time spent in front lf screens create this effect. Therefore, as adults, we are constantly in some sort of abstraction, be it automatisms, focus or thoughts, and that's why time feels quicker.
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in his work "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit" in the chapter "Vom Unterschiede der Lebensalter " dedicated a little bit to this topic.
This chapter impressed me a lot and proved to be very instructive. Schopenhauer also wrote even then that it would be fundamentally due to repetition. Here are a few excerpts from the chapter:
"Namely, life, in all its significance, is still so new, fresh, and without dulling of its impressions by repetition, before us, that we, in the midst of our childish bustle, are always occupied in silence and without any clear intention, to grasp from the individual scenes and processes the essence of life itself, the basic types of its figures and representations. We see, as Spinoza puts it, all things and persons in the light of eternity. The younger we are, the more each represents its whole genus. This diminishes more and more, from year to year: and on this rests the so great difference of impression which things make on us in youth and in old age ...
As long as we are young, we may be told what we like, we consider life endless and deal with time accordingly. The older we get, the more we economize our time. For in later age, every day spent arouses a sensation akin to that which a delinquent led to the high court has at every step.
From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; from the point of view of old age, it is a very short past; so that at first it appears to us like the things when we put the lens of the opera-goer to our eye, but at last like the eyepiece here. One must have become old, thus have lived long, in order to recognize, how short the life is. - The older one becomes, the smaller all human things appear: life, which in youth stood before us as solid and stable, now shows itself to us as the rapid flight of ephemeral phenomena: the nothingness of the whole emerges. - Time itself has a much slower pace in our youth, therefore the first quarter of our life is not only the happiest, but also the longest, so that it leaves behind many more memories, and everyone, if it mattered, would know more to tell from it than from two of the following ones."
As far as I’m concerned. Each decade is faster, not so much year after year
I found mindfulness helps a lot. I wrote a journal for about a month in January. Jan, Feb and March went by so slowly...every day felt like 2 days. I was baffled all the time because it was still not yet a certain day.
Me: will die in 1 minute
Me: starts planking, lives forever
I'm going to try this
Anime 😂?
Whether it works or not, you will still continue planking after the minute passed.
@@BaalTomekk huh
Or step on a lego.
I remember as a kid waiting till Friday seemed like forever
Now its payday cant wait
im 40 and it still does
You must not work full time lol?
So true lol
Fax
I graduated in 2016. This is what gets me: I remember in high school thinking man this is going so slow, I have 4 more years until I graduate?! 6 years have passed since 2016! Thats high school and a half all over again, insane!
In 2016 graduated, went to university right after, dropped down to community due to bombing my SAT/ACT and having to take beginner courses drove me insane, not having a single course related to my major...Those couple years or so at Uni felt somewhat fast but not like what I feel these days. I was underperforming but still experiencing new things.
At community everything was going fine, now this was a bit faster than what high school time was like though. Then boom covid, everything online. Learned almost nothing in class and lost contact with meeting new people. That is when time started blowing by for me personally. I would believe it if it was still 2020...
I guess what this means is not actively experiencing new things makes my life more repetitive which makes time speed up. I do not play video games for a fraction as much as I used to but the overall years are somehow faster! Back then even though I spent so much time playing games I was still doing different things, going to friends houses, talking to more people, experiencing the world a bit more. That is all it took to offset 40+ hours of video games a week. Without those things no matter what don't do time is fast.
I got high in my 20's often with my friend, depressed with my life then and time flew by at his place, we had deep conversations and after seeing this video I realized time moved fast because being high made topics on conversation a novelty as I was seeing the world differently than I had sober.
Honestly, I realized I was over analyzing my thoughts when I was high and got to the solution faster when I was sober but then I was back to time moving slow
Even though 2020 sucks, it honestly felt like March was only yesterday.
@Ishtiaque Walid yeahhh feels short , winter already here wtffff o_O
@@aena5995 i cant BELIEVE its october already
Quarantine feels like a very long month, but not 7 whole months
It feels like July was an hour ago
Uneventuallity
Im not afraid of failure, im afraid of time.
Then it should pass slowly for you, according to him anyway
+Tanner H but as he forget it his live will seem like it just went out because he will have not much memories to make him feel like it was worth it... which is kinda sad... so instead of being afraid, enjoy your time Papakay any way we can not stop time and we all gonna die some day close or far, I'm not arrogant to force my way of view to anyone but even if there is a life after this or not the best thing its to make this life worth it!
+PapaKay yeah thats a good way to put it. I'm not a virgin, I just ran out of time
i was just quoting a movie
+PapaKay Well Eric gave good words anyway.. Damn
5:31 you can also take this as: you can speed up time by using distractions. Meaning that being on your phone watching instagram or tiktok speeds up your time perception. So that way you have more control over how long you want something to last.
Many people older than me, like my parents, tell me often that they're feeling time flowing so much faster than when they were young, and started to have such a perception when they were about to reach 50 years old. I'm 48 years old now, I feel that time seems to flow faster than when I was younger, but not so much, I perceive time flowing evenly day after day and still feels like it's quite long. I'm someone who's not worrying too much about tomorrow, which make time to seem going slow, and rarely experience boredom, which make time to seem going fast. I guess there's some kind of balance, and wish it will remain like that.
I remember a really strange experience I had and never happened again. When you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning, you still somehow have some conscience that you have slept many hours. One day, when I was 7 or 8 years old and visiting my grandparents, I went to bed for night, and at a moment I consciously blinked my eyes for about two seconds, and when I've opened them, it was the morning. It really felt like the night lasted two seconds. I was in a very good mood, but I was so puzzled at the same time. I've told about that to my grandmother; she explained me that I should had been so tired, so I felt asleep so fast to see it coming. I'm pretty sure she improvised that explanation, but it makes sense. I've learned many years later that some people experience that every single night; it's like their brains shut down so abruptly when they fall asleep to make that perception to happen, while most of people fall asleep gradually.
I've experienced your "strange experience" multiple times, haha. It does feel really weird whenever it happens.
Yeah time speeds up and slows down
Speeds up: whenever I'm at home
Slows down: whenever I'm at work.
Zooms by doing homework
Geogravitational anomalies.
Mine is the opposite
Yeah relativity again frames of reference 🤣
@@JG-vo3mh you must be enjoying your work so much i envy you
when at work, a 1 hour lunch break feels like 5 min.
damn dude. thats one long lunch, lucky
We only get 40 minutes
@@human6310 tell your boss to buy robots for workers and that you are leaving
I only get 30 minute of lunch and 15 minute of break but the break feels like 8 minutes I hate time lol
I only had 30mins back in the days. But seems I started realizing what the fudge am I spending my time on I began to put my time in the stock market.
I’m 24 and I felt the reality how time went by and how time felt like forever. Me and my fiancé took a vacation after I graduated college and it’s my first vacation I ever took in my life so it was so foreign to me. It was a 6 day vacation to St Augustine and Tampa. Let me tell you those six days was amazing and it felt like forever. When we got back home it felt like I haven’t been back for like months and it was a cool but different experience.
Yes so if you want to ‘slow time’, just do something exciting instead of always working or studying. Go make fun memories with your loved ones every week. Maybe in weekends, or in the evenings after work. You will ‘slow time’ with it
I feel like when you pay attention to time it seems to go slower. Say you are doing something that’s boring to you (ie sitting in history class). You’ll probably keep looking what the clock and so you’ll see every minute pass. But if you just forget about it, then you won’t really notice time passing and it’s over before you know it.
Obvious, AND not the topic being discussed
@@mhunt25 it was an example?
@@amfizzian life, speeding up, as you age
@@mhunt25 (this was my comment on an unused account which i still get the emails for) i am aware of what this video was about, and i can also see why it’s slightly unrelated in your point. not every comment has to be completely related to the video?
@@amfizzian great, now let's move onto the "obvious" part
You made an off topic statement and it wasted everyone's time because we all know it to be true cause it isn't novel
Have you ever driven to a place you've never driven to before? Your first time going there it seems to take a while. But then you go back a second time and the drive seems much shorter, even though it's the same distance. Maybe this is a similar thing that happens as we age. We become more familiar with the flow of the day, seasons, year, and moving through time in general. When we're younger we're still learning so much about everything around us and in life. There are less unknowns as we become older. Much like when you become familiar with a traveling route.
You're on to something
I sort of disagree… maybe this isn’t a universal thing you’re speaking of. I find that the first handful of times I go somewhere it’s quick… then overtime it takes longer as you get used to the things you see and become bored. Don’t assume that’s a shared experience, cause I don’t think it is. I feel like the same is for this video. I don’t agree time is moving quicker as I age and I’ve asked some of my elders and they disagreed as well. It’s more so about stimulation of the mind. Anything takes longer when you’re fixated on the ends. And anything moves quicker when you are distracted from the ends.
I honestly feel the opposite. When I go somewhere new, I'm immersed in the new sites and the absorption of the route. It seems to just fly by, but if I repeat the trip it's not the same. The more often I do, the more routine and mundane the experience becomes. The longer it seems to drag on.
I 100% agree. It's like when you spend a weekend at home, it just flies by. But if you travel somewhere new, the weekend seems much longer. So I think the key here is to fill your days with new activities if you want them to last longer.
This!!!
You ever done planks? That 2 minutes is forever.
PhenomRom YOOOOOOOOOOOOO I KNOW, RIGHT?!
True
Facts
Life Hack: Keep doing plank all your life. You will feel like living a million yers
Try supermans and scuba divers.
This explains how when you go on a road trip to unknown place for first time it takes forever to get there but when you return it flashes by. You learn on the way there and your are experienced on the way back.
I discussed this with my old singing Italian barber (yes really! He is retired now though) a while ago. He asked me "when was the last time you did something new? Time seems to pass faster because you are in a routine and are doing the same things day in, day out. When you were younger, time was slower because you felt, saw, discovered, and did things for the first time. Keep exploring the world and trying new things in your life, and time will keep passing slower."
And I have to say, yes, he was so very right with that!
Young people: 10 seconds = 10 seconds
Old people 10 seconds = 17 seconds
Anime Characters 10 seconds = 5 years
have you watched the chimera ant arc of hunter x hunter
@@tingtingli9431 nope
Talking is a free action
Ok, basically a 15 minute fight was around 30 episodes.
Ever watched an Indian soap opera? 5 seconds = 10 episodes
Time speeds up when you start paying rent. The 1st of each month is just around the corner.
Give me rent
hahahahahaha true!!!!!
@@kobenkoben7261 you’ll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
@@Reid0h I miss the part where that's my problem
@@kobenkoben7261 this is a free country not a rent free country
I’m 42 and the car/dog images blinked for equal amount of time. Holidays feel long when I’m on them but my memories are short pockets of time. Putting my hand on a stove would be a short shard pain that I’d forget about. Talking to a handsome man would feel like half the day.
Very enriching. I can definetely conclude that key events alter your time perception. When a child is born, a divorce and the death of a parent all can cause "jumps" in time perception. That together with the first explanation (fraction therory) kind of causes the whole effect. You mentioned that a six year old would have lived half of it's life by the age of 6 according to the "fraction theory". I think it might be exactly that if we talk about discovering life. A kid will have the most amount of new experiences compared to a 60 year old person. And that might be 50% of it's total life experience, I believe. All "routines" are just not experienced as conscious as new events. Time for Science!
*Reality Check:* _1990 is just as far away as 2050_
Jeez
Wtf, why did it make me sad?
@@shiesty5675 bcz you will be in your 50's in 2050 and probably have diabetes, cancer and hiv
@Mek :] being old sucks bro we will face lot's of health related problems as we getting older and older.
@@Numbers0 why diabetes and hiv?
That paradox with school: so boring it feels like a lifetime during the year, but at the end it feels like a minute.
Really relatable.
True!
@Mr. 8-Bit Doggo Do you want to explain more about it? Hope all is ok :)
Mr. 8-Bit Doggo I’m glad you understand the reasons better now, you seem really in tune with it, and hopefully you can still manage despite it. All the best ❤️❤️ (pretty late response, for some reason I wasn’t notified)
@@yes7855 pretty late response, but im sure it would not be such a long time ago for doggo
😂😭😭
i just told my friend about this video that came out a couple of years ago.. i look it up and it turns out it was six years ago..
i guess these videos are just so good that they feel new no matter what..
I haven't yet watched the video but in my opinion as children we live in the 'now' whereas adults we're constantly in our head or worrying about the future and time passes us by without realizing.
"Being Afraid increases our sense of time"
This could also be the reason why depression is so hard to get out of.
and/or anxiety/anxiety attacks
I've lived with serious depression since 12 and am 21 now, it does slow things down a lot i feel like, but what I've noticed mostly is that it kinda takes away my ability to look back on things since i can barely remember anything because of it. As a musician though i have some general perception on time. so in most cases while i know what time it is or how much time has passed, it rarely aligns with how much time i feel has passed. that only applies to situations i am actively in. if it's more than a few days ago it could as well be years.
@@nathanvis3222 I can relate 😔
Pfffft! Depression is hard to get out of because it gives "distorted" pleasure to one pondering over negative things. Also being depressed and being afraid are different things. It might not be easy to recognize for someone who is first time depressed or has only been short time depressed, that depression gives that kind of pleasure. And it totally makes sense, that's why it's so destructive cycle.
I can relate to this.
Felt it when I turned 19. From early childhood to 18, everything seemed slower. I was monitoring the clock when I was in class taking a course at 19 and was shocked how fast time flew. I mentioned it to my teacher and her response still sticks with me "so you are experiencing it now". Now at 43, everything is quickened. I remember when we greeted the New Year. Now here we are looking at June. That quick.
This has made me learn something about some of my classmates. I'm in college, 20 years old and the ages of my classmates range from 17-22. We're in the same grade, yet the ones fresh out of high school seem to get distracted way quicker than me and others that are 20+ do. 2 hours of a class to me seems like not a super big deal, but to my younger classmates it generally seems like a bigger deal than it does to me.
Huh, it started earlier for me, it felt like this year just ZOOMED past and im already a 10th grader, i still remember the first time i went to school
I felt it start at the same time I began 7th grade, and the first four weeks that school year passed in a blur. But in my second semester of 8th grade, time slowed back down to a more comprehensible speed, and it's stayed at that new speed consistently since then.
Started for me around age 9 - 10
Sorry but I have a different theory, i think it's about something happening in space and all like how time passes differently near objects of varying gravity and all coz you see not just us, ask the kids even they are feeling time fly by unlike us when we were kids. This is something else, we are missing something.
I did the same sort of study when I entered a science fair in high school. I held up different colors (the standard yellow, blue, green, orange, and red for a certain period of time and asked people to write down how many seconds they believed had elapsed for each one. Although each was held up for the exact same amount of time, every single person in three groups of 30 assigned blue as the color that the most amount of time passed and orange being held up for the least amount of time.
Im currently 21 so here's my experience: Majority of my days are routine work that are pre set and kind of chill not any stress or pressure. But there are somedays where my routine changes and have to deal with various things. Its like on these days im super busy. So when i go home after this day i feel like super tired and think it was a damn long day. The point i want to make is that when the brain is constantly busy and involved in various situations time feels slower. Hope u understood what i want to say.
read this once & it stuck with me since
"Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out."
I read this, or something like it, in a book called The Time Keeper. Idk if it's the same book
@@RightfulFallen yea its the sane book,u r right
@@RightfulFallen yea it's from the same book
100th btw
The book name is The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
Return car journeys are always faster than those journeys travelling somewhere for the first time..
Thats a fact
Omg yes
Wow! You're right!
Yeah but I'm pretty sure that goes for people of all ages
True
Really interesting, thanks. The time just flew by!
1:52-As we get older the rate at which our neurons fire(neuron conduction velocity) gets slowers.
Chronoception
When we focused on something time passes by quickly(Mental State called Flow)
Also things which are new and novel to you seems like it goes slower than what we are used to doing because we apply more energy into our brain.
4:16
Time seems to go longer when we are bored or scared
Its like when I watch a movie the second time it feels like the movie is shorter
That's because you pretty much know what to expect, and when a scene will happen.
Same
Perfecto said sir!
Ikr
Same deal with road trips. At least for me, it feels like the trip back goes by much quicker.
Back then summer break used to feel like a long time,
I even asked my mom if summer vacation was shortened
Summer is already halfway over and it feels like it only just started. And then it’s back to winter for half the year here
My schools summer was cut down by 12 days 2 years ago
@@beachbum4805 :O that's horrible
I totally get you, just today I thought to myself “has it really been a month and a half already?”
Mean while I'm 25 and in college and this summer feels like years. Cant wait to get back and keep finishing my degree
From 10 to 20, just ten years felt like literal centuries for me, every single year felt differently. Now I'm 24 and the four years that passed seem like just several months.
Perhaps the effects of chemtrails, fluoride, harmful ingredients in food, exposure to EMF radiation, or computer eye syndrome which affects processing because of the cumulative effects on the eyes and the nerves that control the muscles of eye movement.
I like this definition - when you are a kid, you dont have many memories to think about. as you get older, you spend alot of time remembering the past. So we actually time travel into the past. That time you spend remembering takes up time, so when you stop, you missed the present time so it seems like more time passed, thus it went faster. Or something like that.
I believe it's a problem with not living in the present moment. When you were a kid you lived in the now you didn't think about the past and you didn't worry about the future and as we got older we started worrying and thinking about other things that took us away from the present moment and time is percieved to speed up the more you think.
Trueee
100% agree
I've always thought that, seems the obvious answer. Haven't watch the video yet lol
@@biancavegter5488 tell that to yourself in 15 years
Flow for me happens when watching CZcams. Hours go by so quick
@parodyvideos wouldn't say mindless... I learn some good stuff on here.
I think that has to do with figuring it out or having it explained to you. Which happens more?
Dom s I agree the same thing happens to me
I always thought it was a comparison thing. When you’re 6 a year seems like such a long time because that’s literally 1/6th of time you’ve experienced, but when you’re 50 another year is just a drop in the ocean, you’ve lived so many days they just kinda blur together making life feel faster.
i like the way you talk, its so calmly and interesting. thank you!
I found that when I started studying a foreign language in my spare time, TIME slowed down. I felt like I experienced time like I did as a kid, because I had to learn everything all over again. I think that constantly learning new things could make time slower and not be unpleasant.
I agree with you! As well as bringing new experiences constantly into life
time going faster is pleasant not unpleasant
@@egg-iu3fe nah
@@11panithilopas9 yeah
@@egg-iu3fe I'm guessing you're relatively young, and not experiencing life racing by as you hurtle ever nearer your grave ..... it's not a pleasant experience.
My theory is a bit different. I believe things appear longer when your younger because you are always waiting for a event. Birthdays, school, Christmas and many more events. Waiting seems to extend time in my mind. Therefore as we age we have less things to be excited about and time appears to slip by.
Thats my theory.
Yea, and when you're young, you want to be an adult so you pretty much stare at the clock waiting. To get a drivers licence, to turning 21 and being able to drink, etc.
@@agent475816 Turning 21 next month although I don't drink, I've been looking forward to that day since 16 now that I reflect on that thought, wish I was still 16.
I turned 21 july 2nd. have drank quite a bit but tbh it doesn't matter, especially considering no matter how much I drink it doesn't affect me at all
I 100% agree with u!!!!
U state it so precisely.
In a situation when I do nothing comparing to my youth and now feels like doing nothing and waiting smth became more faster than when I was a kid. But you always can speed it up doing something else to ignore the time passing you know
Thank you, this was truly beautiful
I heard that the reason time flies when you get older is because you experience fewer new things. Life becomes a routine and most days are not memorable. So when old people try to go back in time to find memories, they feel like the last months didn't even excist. Just like we all feel that the year 2020 doesn't exist in our memories because we didn't experience much memorable during lockdown. That makes 2019 feel like one year ago and time went fast forward.
That makes a lot of sense
Yeah. My 2020 exists but only partially.
I remember only few times, like the days in Florence when I met my GF and gosh those were only 3 days though seem like entire weeks, unlike the period from March to July that were 4 to 5 months of nothing feel like well nothing, I passed those months at home, watching TV, playing on my phone and sleeping, it's really nothing, I also remember my time in Naples, 7 days and again feels like much longer, that's my 2020 for ya.
It feels like we never lived it, 2019 and then 2021, just lived some weeks in 2020, doesn't matter how hard I try I can't really focus on nothing from 2020, I can't really catch anything important to attach myself to.
And that also might explain why those 3 days in Florence are so important to me, like I can't even begin to explain why I felt so good, I never felt that good again even with my GF in the past 18 months.
Agreed.
This. When we are young, we remember each and every experience because it was new. Our brain remembers the "first" encounter of each thing. But when we age, we experiences things that we've already done time and time again. Our brain don't remember those.
That is what i have always told to myself and to people around. And that is why I will always try to find new things to experience. I am right now soon to become 21 years old, but I have been a sound technician, builder, cook, an actor, an improv actor, been to 4 different schools (if we do not consider online courses) and right now I am learning IT. I train my brain everyday as much as I can and try to give it as much variety as I can. Also as I have in the past felt a burnout, I know to keep an eye on my free time so that I could also from time to time think of my past and see if I am happy about it.
The last part of this video said it all. When we get older, we get stuck in the same routine for years upon years and we don't have any standout memories to think back on since most days are more or less the same. Adding variety and as many new experiences to your memories as possible is the best way to stave off the feeling like time is flying by.
I believe this is exactly it.
Yea that’s what I’ve always had in mind and everyday it feels kinda short
This was sort of what it was for me, time seemed to speed up as things became more and more routine.
As a Christian, I find that the more I learn about God and the Bible the more exciting each year becomes. He is an infinite God and I am a finite person learning more about Him. So, in a way that kind of makes sense. I like the feeling of time flying by because there is something exciting about it.
but that would mean,that periods in youre life that differ heavylie from your routine and are full of new stuff, feel longer and time slows down, but it didnt. i learned a new job for 3 years and those years flew by, like the 3 year of routine before that
Our analog synapses are slowing down, taking fewer snapshots that make up our perception of time. The silent movie effect where it was 18 fps instead of the current 24fps. Fewer frames make the image look faster moving. In other words, we're slipping away one synapse at a time.
awesome info !!!!! thank you!
“Every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes ”
- A wise man once said
Haha
Its so sad tho even the top scientists couldnt find a way to stop this :(
A wise man once told me ITS TIME TO GOOOOOO!!!!
Together we can stop this
Even in asia and europe
how to feel like life is longer: go around the world, watch different tv channels, go to different places, change up how you live your life each day.
Have a intense life
I can do all of this in my room yes? ay then im somewhat an immortal myself, all with minimal effort
Or do a plank
@@pepperpoop7729 did you not listen to the video? That was one of the exact reasons mentioned that makes life appear *shorter.*
yeah but u have to be rich first
In the early hours, suffering pain - then time drags by for us older folks. And years ago - I was passenger in a serious car crash. My memory of it takes longer to run through than it will have taken. And recounting events takes orders of magnitude longer.
I remember two lines from time by pink floyd
‘You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today’
‘Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time’
I’m 76 and my minute was 58 seconds. This time last year feels like it was years ago, but a lot has happened, a lot of novelty and little repetition. I also make a point of learning new things which are intellectually challenging, not just acquiring new knowledge but things which are a real struggle to master. It is very easy to get into a rut mentally and physically when you get older.
u inspire me sir
Wow you're 76? You must have a lot of life-experience
That is awesome mister Glen Net. I hope I'll be able to live such a full life myself as well.
I'm 50 and I stopped my minute after 51 seconds. I also don't feel that time is speeding up with age. Although, I believe when I was very young time felt a bit slower simply because I wasn't aware that my life is limited.
Stay healthy hope u live a while
I have the theory that its routine, whenever i didn’t do new things i felt time passed fast, but when i did a lot of new things in a week i feel that time is slow
As said in the video, brain takes time to analyze novel things.
Yep, what you say is proven to be true. Do routine which is easy work will move time faster, but do something new or do hard work then time will move slower.
I figured this out years ago. Adults seem to do the same thing every day, every year. Doing something new, going somewhere new, meeting different people, you will have more memories to separate time.
Another theory of mine...
AS WE GROW UP WE START THINKING TOO MUCH ABOUT OUR PAST AND FUTURE. When we come across new things, we just cut the crap and use much of our brain in trying to understanding it(thus making time pass slowly).
Ohhhh that's why
Your channels always discover interests and and concepts
6:05 Well actually, memories feel instant to me, because they are now memories so I can no longer experience that exact situation ever again, so it feels like it never even happened, which in turn makes it feel instant. Every second that goes by, it feels like the previous second never happened, or just went by instantly because I’m no longer experiencing it.
That probably wasn’t a perfect explanation, but it’s the best I can do. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Does anyone else feel/think the same way as me?
You know what else slows down time? Desperately having to go to the bathroom!
lmao 😂😂
I think it's the opposite.
Or does it? *Vsauce theme kicks in *
Funny, but it’s true because of the heighten sensitivity to time, therefore when you’re paying attention it would perceptively go slower. Time flies when you’re having fun because you’re not paying attention to it.
*looking at a pretty girl while with hand on a stove*
Whenever I speak around a pretty girl, I get so embarrassed my body gets as hot as a stove. Does that count?
Are you saying that you touch yourself, when you see a pretty girl?
I always touch myself when i see a pretty girl m8.
GTX 1080 Well that's gotta be awkward.
Jan Egeland They don't mind, and in fact go in for the succ.
Your content so good. I really love it
Thankyou been thinking about this question since I was little
This 7min 40sec video went by pretty fast.
Yes.
0:00 7:40
It went by slowww
Not for me. Im 60.
you need to pay more attention
I haven’t even started watching but first thing that comes to mind is that when we’re kids up until 21, everything feels like it’s evolving and we’re set on a path for growth and development both physically and mentally. But as we get into our 20s and later, it’s really all up to us individually to keep progressing and I think a lot of us fall short, years pass by, and we feel like we haven’t grown or accomplish much. You periodically stop to reflect and realize “wow, not much has really changed”. That’s how I feel at least
As a child you do a lof of stuff you don't want to. A lot of sitting, waiting for the clock, doing what grown-ups tell you to. After that life is coming at you non-stop until you die.
Well said
YES
such a great objections
There was a quote in the Matilda movie about Matilda learning as a child what most people don’t learn until their early 30s, how to take care of themselves. I never understood it until I’m almost 30 now.
Other examples of that altered perception of time:
- When you look at a clock, the first second you see always seems to be longer than all the other ones
- When you go somewhere you don't know and you feel like the return journey is much shorter than when you went there. Example: the first time I went to my now usual vacation spot, there was that long walk to do alongside a road and it felt like it took me so long, like an hour. Now that I know that place very well, that walk feels much shorter and I know it takes around 15 to 20 minutes.
- The usual "time when gaming/reading/drawing vs time when working/bored/at school" thing
My teenage years felt like an entire era. Now (I'm in my 50s), ten years ago feels like a blink of an eye.