I always figured it's because kids live in the moment while adults live waiting for something. Waiting for the weekend, vacation, appointment, birthday, etc... Because adults are always waiting for something, time is always on their mind.
Didn't Yoda say something about Luke always running to the future, always looking to the past, never with his mind on *what he's doing* right now? Or maybe it was Ken Keyes jr... I always get those two mixed up.
Kids are always waiting for recess, lunch, the dismissal bell, the weekend, spring break, summer vacation, birthdays, Christmas, etc. That's all kids do.
I'm 54, and can confirm that months and years seem to go by more quickly with age. For example it seems like we were just in late winter and suddenly I realize it's almost July. One other odd thing is that songs on the radio all seem to have faster tempo than I remember. Though I know some radio stations actually do compress music so they can fit in more ads. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go chase some kids off my lawn.
Paul Drake Okay but, I'm not even close to 54, like decades away from that age and I also feel like it was late winter and it now almost July. Are you suggesting that I'm secretly really old?
A man had been told he had two months to live. When asked what he wanted to do, he replied "move in with my mother in law, it would be the longest two months of my life" ;>)
I think it’s a combination of several things. 1: as a child you haven’t lived as long so a year is a larger percentage of your life. 2: you had more stimuli when you’re young because more things are new to you, so your brain processes the experiences slower to understand it better. The older you get, the less new and amazing things you experience so your brain just breezes through the info it receives, like when you’re reading a book you read many times before. You already kinda know what’s gonna happen next, so you more or less end up subconsciously skimming through the book. Even if you do new things that are fun, it’s never quite as much fun as experiencing new things as a child because no matter what there is still more familiarity with the situation because of past experience. You had nothing to very little to base new experiences on as a child. 3: you produce less of your bodies chemicals as you get older so your not as stimulated chemically as you used to be and on a subconscious level, you’re running on autopilot. 4: as a child you have a long life ahead of you so you live more in the moment, without much thought to the future. You take your time to live your life at whatever pace you feel like, dwelling on more of the everyday stuff. As you get older, you know you’re getting nearer to the end, so you start to try to cram more into each day before you run out of time. Doing more things (especially productive stuff) makes you miss the details that you noticed in childhood. 5: as a child there is little to distract you from the world. You have all time to learn new things, make more mistakes, ect. When you’re older, you spend more time worrying about things like work or not messing up a relationship or work. Work also takes up far more of your day, leaving less time for other things it also adds stress to your life, where as a child work (chores) took up far less of your day. 6: the amount the world changes over your lifetime. If you lived in a time period were things like technology, standard of living ect stayed relatively the same, time will seem slower (same old same old feeling). For Most people around today, a lot has changed and continues to change in drastic amounts. As one person said, when they were young there was no video games, computers, cable ect. Now life revolves around computers far more powerful then the wildest imaginations of people 40 years ago. stuff from science fiction 40 years ago now seems archaic compared to what we have now because technology has moved so fast. Remember we went from riding horses in the Wild West to landing on the moon in less then a single lifetime. Now just think of the amount of technology we have now compared to 50 years ago. All of these things work in combination to make life seem to go by faster as you get older. Plus it’s a lot of the reason we look back on our younger days with more fondness then say last Tuesday. It fuels nostalgia and in a way a yearning to get a little of “old days” back in the form of collecting stuff from the past (your own or even before your lifetime) or even just keeping a little something from your childhood and even staying in contact (like going to class reunions) with others that were around you as a child (like old friends) or even people near your age.
that's a good example to answer this question. I think it's because when you're making that journey the first time you don't knwo exactly what's ahead, you're living more in the moment, every moment you're seeing something different or wondering about what will come next. in the subsequent times making it you already know what to expect, your brain is sort of in standby waiting to arrive at your destination, thus looking back those seem a lot shorter than the first one
This happens _all_ the time to me with music. I first watch a clip and it's like 6 minutes long, but if I watch it again immediately after, it's like 2 minutes. Sometimes I even watch it again because I feel like I didn't pay attention
I think the Dopamine Theory is into something. If anything gives you a sensation of being more interesting than usual, you'll pay attention on more details about it, retaining more details/information opens more opportunities to self-improvement/change which gives you an impression of having lived more/longer throughout that period. As if the brain interpreted new information/changes as units of measurement of time.
You don’t perceive it as long.. That happens if you have low dopamine levels according to the theory. Time flies when you’re having fun and it doesn’t past if you aren’t producing dopamine. The opposite is ridiculous to me but I wish it was true though.. I wish time would pass quickly when I’m bored and slowed down when I’m having fun. Oh that’s the dream..
T J No. The way they worded it was bad. 3:15 _"low dopamine makes them underestimate how fast time goes"_ What I understood from this is: _"makes them underestimate how a lot of time has passed and they didn't notice"_ Since before she mentioned it, she said it was an evidence in favour of the theory that 3:06 _"extra dopamine makes time pass slower",_ which I understood like _"gives you an impression it took longer because more of it has passed"._ I didn't get the Music reference though. IDK, maybe I understood everything wrong.
I'm 40 and sometimes stop to think about how many years have passed. I've literally done nothing different in the last 10 years - been single, working, just getting on, you know? Only recently have I felt some despair at how easily a decade can be missed and all I can say to anyone under 30 is be mindful of this inevitability. The only thing that seemingly eases the dread of getting older is to have people you care about with you for the ride.
@@makeupbyushna3085 i think kyle implies that. Life itself can be wonderful and, man look how interesting reality is. But we got self aware without being asked if we wanted to (birth). And now we have to deal with the question "why ?". Sadly as fun as existance is, we all know its going to end and thats the cruel part. At least for me. I love studying and trying to understand everything, but death just makes it obcene.
Have a good time, the clock moves faster. Have a bad time, the clock slows down. The trick is to not have a clock around to see you having a good time.
The past few weeks for me have gone by really quickly, but I just realized how I’m on my phone and doing things and worrying about things. Now I can enjoy activities and be on my phone less often! Thanks!
I’m 16 and recently I feel that the last 3 years have gone by faster than usual. I’m not saying “oh i’m 16 i’m so old now”, I’m saying I think my mind is stuck in 2017. Which in a way makes sense because that was my most exciting year for me, and I’ve done a lot of things that year. I don’t know, thought it’d be cool to share that.
Side note: Also time confuses the hell out of me. Every time I think back about something I did I’m like, “Wow that was 2 weeks ago?” or like something like that. Maybe its because I never worry about time or think about it, but I see a lot of comments saying it’s the other way around. Im hoping someone can relate.
I think it's because perception of time changes based on how intensely we are thinking if that makes sense. Like how videos of roller coasters look really short, but when you actually ride it, it's much longer, because of the adrenaline you think a lot more, so in a shorter time you process more stuff, making time pass slower for you. And when we're young we're constantly taking in new information, but when we don't when we're old, and many of us do basically the same thing every day for years.
I wonder if the internet will change how this generation views the passage of time when they're older. We tend to have less patience and brand new memes get old within a week. With everything being outdated in an instant, I wonder how millennials will see time in their old age
Then again, there are a bunch of digital photo album and timeline keepers in social media that show you stuff that happened in the past. It’s much easier to keep track of significant events in your life now, and to keep track of others’, too. Seeing exactly how long ago something happened, and consistently seeing that info as time moves forward, could actually help people perceive time more accurately.
Markus Andreas Roth-Gross Thanks for the unwarranted assumption that I somehow lost all ability to be patient and I'm projecting this on an entire generation. But uh, no. What I said is common knowledge. With the instant gratification from social media posts, the ability to binge watch, and anything we want almost instantly available, there's so much less waiting in today's world. This has made people in general less patient. It's a common millennial problem, seeing how they grew up on the internet, but it effects really anyone who spends a lot of time online. Especially on social media. But since you missed the memo, somehow, here's some academic articles on it (You have to remove the space in the urls) pewinternet. org/2012/02/29/millennials-will-benefit-and-suffer-due-to-their-hyperconnected-lives/ certi.mst .edu/media/administrative/certi/documents/Article-Millennial-Behaviors.pdf And if you want just regular news articles, those are /everywhere/. I tried to find more study-backed sources though.
I think other than that dopamine theory which I found quite logical, I think work life as an adult could also effect our perception of time. In most work lives, people always be in hurry, there is always something urgent or there is always someone to be called in 5 mins etc.etc. So we start to expect everything to happen faster, we start doing our daily routines faster just to have a little bit more time for ourselves. Then we stop for a moment and think how the time is going so fast when in fact it's us doing things faster and not realizing how is the time going while we're busy thus making what we do less significant to us too.
I think it's because time doesn't exist and when we look back, if we are older, we are like, "No way! It can't be that quick" and when we are kids, we really live in the moment, don't think about time, wait to be adults (and that takes a bit), and we don't have a backward frame of reference yet. Time ticks off, or the illusion of it, at the same rate all the time. It is exactly how long it should be. No less, no more. We feel it is fast the older we get because we recognize the fact that we will end at some point. We see, at 50, for example, that we only have about 30 left, maybe 20, and it trips us out and panics almost. It appears to have gone by fast. At 40, we realize that we are half way through and the last 20 went by quick. It didn't though. It's all in the mind. Time doesn't exist though, we all experience the rate of change a bit different.
It hit me last year on the 20th anniversary of 911. I said to my bro how September 11, 2001 was the halfway point between 1981 and then and how crazy that seemed to me. In 1981, for me, 2001 would have seemed so far in the future that it might as well be a lifetime. In hindsight, the last 20 years flew by much quicker than the 20 years between 1981 and 2001.
Bruh this vid is relatable af I’m 15 and it feels like it wasn’t long ago that I was 13 but when I was say 7 two years felt like a rlly long time I’ve been thinking abt this a lot lately bc I’m scared abt graduating high school and going to college and my hopes of starting a family not working out
I have noticed that time, as I'm in it, seems to drag by. But then suddenly it's the 4th of July and I blink and it's Christmas. Even though the minutes seem to drag in the present, looking back at events, it seems impossible so much time could've passed.
Honestly my humble opinion is that when your young your usually more in the moment and when your older your thinking of the future and the past and time goes faster.
It feels like a roller coaster going down from the highest peak then accelerating faster and faster as it goes down with no chance at stopping until you reach a massive concrete wall.
Time for me genuinely feels fast, a few days ago I was hacking a 3ds and that day just blew by and couldn't believe it was midnight when I was done, I even looked at the clock at times and all I can remember was it going from 6pm to 9pm to 12am in the span of what felt like 30 minutes. A few weeks ago though I covered shifts to get extra money and an hour felt like 3 hours, I'd be there for 8 hours and it felt like I was there for 15 hours at max but then the next staff came in and we chatted for an hour (I'm a talker haha) and it went back to feeling like 10 minutes
Never stayed in one state longer than a year as a kid but after I turned 14 I've been in the same state for almost two decades. The stuff from when I was a young kid seemed to have lasted longer than my whole life going forward after I stopped moving from state to state. I do in fact think that having new things in life really do seem to slow the passage of time. Could just be me, however, that's my thoughts on this subject.
I'm near 30, but I already feel like the days go slow, but the weeks and months go quickly. I imagine given a lifetime, the years eventually go quickly as well.
When you're older your experience or awareness of your existence spans a much longer period vs a day than when you're young which is why when you're young summer seems to last forever but when you're it flies by.
Time, why you punish me? Like a wave crashing into the shore . . You wash away my dreams . . Time, why you walk away? . . Like a friend with somewhere to go . . You left me crying . .
I am very certain that it comes from less free time. When you are busy all day, then you don't ponder so much about philosophical things like this. You only "really" realize how much time has passed, once you get to settle down and reflect upon the last months or years.
I believe that the following is the more accurate answer, the same way when you're bored or scared time seams to go slower, and when you're having fun, time seams to go faster, when you're a kid you think you're going to leave 100 years, and it seams so far away, you don't worry to much about it, you might get scared sometimes, but still you expected to happen when you get old, as you get older you become more aware of your mortality, and you get more worry each day, you worry more about eating healthy, exercising, checking in with the doctor, dentist, etc, you become more aware the each day is one less day, and the older you get the more you feel today could be my last day, it's proven that the way you feel changes your perception of time, I think this is it, and maybe all the other things mentioned in this video play a small role too.
I’m waiting for middle school to go by really fast because then my parents know I’m dating and don’t care but at this point I’m in middle school and they care about everything I need time to pass by please 😢
Also, when you are little, a year feels like forever. It's such a large proportion of your entire experience. Like 1/3, 1/6, 1/10th, 1/15th etc... but as an adult, a year is like 1/30th or 1/40th or 1/50th etc... of your entire experience...
I think maybe it's a 20th century phenomenon. When I was a kid, culture and technology were constantly changing. The difference between, say, 1977 and 1992 was huge. I went from having no cable TV and no video games and not even a VCR, to having the internet. My parents and grandparents went through similar changes. But I think in the last 15 years, there's been very little change. You could say smart phones and RUclips are new things, but the difference hasn't been that much. Even popular music doesn't seem much different from 15 years ago until now. The music from 1977 (like disco) felt VERY dated even by 1984. A car from 1977 also would have looked VERY dated 10 years later. But now a car from 2008 looks basically the same as a new car. It just feels like things are changing a lot less.
I feel like it's more about looking forward to things. When you're young, you have (for most of us) waaaaaaaay more events to look forward to in both the immediate, and long-term future; when you're old, not so much. Now that I'm well into my 40s, I've noticed this more because I have an average of like 1 event per year to really look forward to, and it strikes me how time does seem to pass more slowly, particularly in the weeks/days leading up to it. For most of us, when we're a kid, almost every day has an exciting event.
I can’t believe I’m 32. It’s weird. Sometimes I still feel 16 like I should be waiting for my parents to tell me to go wash the dishes then I feel 21 at times- still can’t believe I’m 32 and have to be an adult. Seems I blinked and Christmas is once every 3 months- too fast :(
Repititive routine evryday life.. for exp : wake up > work > eat > sleep and again again again.. it makes time slip so fast.. i think the theory is.. make something different evryday with fun for urself.. dont just boring repeated day routine.. it make the time sleep.. u wont realize ur time flow.. bcoz the time when it get sleep, u got a dream.. and u know when u get a dream the next u wake up is morning.. time so fast passing by.. ☻
I feel like when your younger your time is more segmented. All throughout schooling, your day is broken up into multiple classes, whereas when you're an adult it's broken down into at work and not at work, or if you look at the clock often, then work, lunch, home. School feels slow because you're waiting for the next class and you're thinking about it constantly. "I still have an hour left in math class...ugh.". As an adult you're like "Just 3 and a half more hours till clock-out." And when you're retired it goes by the fastest because you're usually only thinking about when you need to go to sleep. As you grow older, you'll hopefully also be doing more things you like doing. The saying "Time flies when you're having fun" would also relate. When you're younger you're constantly being told what to do. Grade school is this completely. But as you become an adult, you start doing things because you want to, and I think as you get older, that becomes even more the case, where you'll only do things because you want to. I feel like both of these things contribute towards peoples perception of how fast time goes. You can see it when you're younger too. Summer vacation always feels short because you're having fun doing what you want to be doing and because time is segmented into days instead of into classes.
I got a little excited when I saw the title of this episode because it's a subject I have considered a lot and it's a subject that I have a theory (sorry, hypothesis) about - and I'm a bit nervous now because no comments have gone there I suspect that it may be about the rate at which the brain samples the environment We don't accept a continuous stream of data with our senses, we sample at a definable rate I think that rate is high when the brain is new, spongelike and also when excited by stress hormones, drugs etc but that sampling rate decreases with age?, boredom, lack of stimuli??? I don't know, just been one of my pet "theories"
When I was younger, one year always felt unimaginably long to me, but after I was 13, Every time I thought about something that happened the last year, I actually felt surprised that it just felt like it recently happened, and today im in 9th grade but I still don’t think time has really went on since my 6th grade year
I always assumed it was due to how much of a percentage of your life span it was. When you are a year old, a year is all of your life, and more time than you can imagine or comprehend. When you are 20, a year is 5% of your life, very easy for your to imagine and comprehend.
In my case, I have very bad memory from when I was young and a teenager, and I have started doing a lot of new things in my life, so I feel as if time was moving slower.
Its true that time seems to go faster as we got older cause when i was younger i used to think 1 hour was long but now i feel like 1 hour isnt enough time
There's an opposite effect for me sometimes. For example, Revenge of the Sith came out in 2005, but it feels like it should be a decade older than that.
Personal theory I had was that time phenomenon is related to memory level. The more you remember the the faster it feels like. Which would coincide with kids having time feel slower, The more fuzy a memory feels the longer ago it feels like it happened. I personally don't feel like 1 day goes by faster than when I was a kid, 1 year does feel like it goes by faster. But 1 day can feel like it lasted forever when too much happened in it so that you can't remember everything and some bit feel fuzzier than others. And I also don't feel like time goes faster now that I'm 33 compare to when I was 20 and memory level are about the same. Been thinking about that theory for a long time and couldn't find anything that contradicted it. Wouldn't this theory also fit the Alzheimer thing? I Personally think that the percentage of life you've lived theory is baloney considering time perception change drastically when you're near the end of puberty and never feel like it changes after that.
Idk it always seems like time is going 2x faster for me it all started in 8th grade I remember time used to go slower - normal but now it always goes so fast even when I’m bored but when I’m having fun it seems to go 3x faster so I fear my life is only gonna feel like 30 years them I’m gonna die so I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING NOW. I do that then I get burned out. Then rinse and repeat
growing up = less dopamine = time flying by. smoking a blunt = high dopamine = "time goes slow" i guess it happens to humans... (although when im high, i dont feel that "slow time")
I always figured it's because kids live in the moment while adults live waiting for something. Waiting for the weekend, vacation, appointment, birthday, etc... Because adults are always waiting for something, time is always on their mind.
Didn't Yoda say something about Luke always running to the future, always looking to the past, never with his mind on *what he's doing* right now? Or maybe it was Ken Keyes jr... I always get those two mixed up.
Kids are always waiting for recess, lunch, the dismissal bell, the weekend, spring break, summer vacation, birthdays, Christmas, etc. That's all kids do.
@@0mn1vore yeah its basically what (Zen) Buddhism is teaching ;D
Try to practice mindfullness 20 / 30 minutes a day.
That's just a byproduct of our society and of the times we live in though... It's almost inevitable to spend so much time in your mind
I'm 54, and can confirm that months and years seem to go by more quickly with age. For example it seems like we were just in late winter and suddenly I realize it's almost July. One other odd thing is that songs on the radio all seem to have faster tempo than I remember. Though I know some radio stations actually do compress music so they can fit in more ads. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go chase some kids off my lawn.
Paul Drake Okay but, I'm not even close to 54, like decades away from that age and I also feel like it was late winter and it now almost July. Are you suggesting that I'm secretly really old?
Tbf, your species went extent eons ago...
Referring to the above commenters username, @Cuzeg Spiked
Im your age, and I do feel time goes faster as I get older
You're absolutely right it might only be in my mind what time does go faster than it did when I was younger
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A man had been told he had two months to live. When asked what he wanted to do, he replied "move in with my mother in law, it would be the longest two months of my life" ;>)
Bikes & Drones hahahahaha that's a ripper! Or for my case it's the father in law.
Bikes & Drones that face tho lol
I think it’s a combination of several things.
1: as a child you haven’t lived as long so a year is a larger percentage of your life.
2: you had more stimuli when you’re young because more things are new to you, so your brain processes the experiences slower to understand it better. The older you get, the less new and amazing things you experience so your brain just breezes through the info it receives, like when you’re reading a book you read many times before. You already kinda know what’s gonna happen next, so you more or less end up subconsciously skimming through the book. Even if you do new things that are fun, it’s never quite as much fun as experiencing new things as a child because no matter what there is still more familiarity with the situation because of past experience. You had nothing to very little to base new experiences on as a child.
3: you produce less of your bodies chemicals as you get older so your not as stimulated chemically as you used to be and on a subconscious level, you’re running on autopilot.
4: as a child you have a long life ahead of you so you live more in the moment, without much thought to the future. You take your time to live your life at whatever pace you feel like, dwelling on more of the everyday stuff. As you get older, you know you’re getting nearer to the end, so you start to try to cram more into each day before you run out of time. Doing more things (especially productive stuff) makes you miss the details that you noticed in childhood.
5: as a child there is little to distract you from the world. You have all time to learn new things, make more mistakes, ect. When you’re older, you spend more time worrying about things like work or not messing up a relationship or work. Work also takes up far more of your day, leaving less time for other things it also adds stress to your life, where as a child work (chores) took up far less of your day.
6: the amount the world changes over your lifetime. If you lived in a time period were things like technology, standard of living ect stayed relatively the same, time will seem slower (same old same old feeling). For Most people around today, a lot has changed and continues to change in drastic amounts. As one person said, when they were young there was no video games, computers, cable ect. Now life revolves around computers far more powerful then the wildest imaginations of people 40 years ago. stuff from science fiction 40 years ago now seems archaic compared to what we have now because technology has moved so fast. Remember we went from riding horses in the Wild West to landing on the moon in less then a single lifetime. Now just think of the amount of technology we have now compared to 50 years ago.
All of these things work in combination to make life seem to go by faster as you get older. Plus it’s a lot of the reason we look back on our younger days with more fondness then say last Tuesday. It fuels nostalgia and in a way a yearning to get a little of “old days” back in the form of collecting stuff from the past (your own or even before your lifetime) or even just keeping a little something from your childhood and even staying in contact (like going to class reunions) with others that were around you as a child (like old friends) or even people near your age.
Ever notice how the same journey seems shorter after the first time you make it? Maybe there's a connection.
that's a good example to answer this question. I think it's because when you're making that journey the first time you don't knwo exactly what's ahead, you're living more in the moment, every moment you're seeing something different or wondering about what will come next. in the subsequent times making it you already know what to expect, your brain is sort of in standby waiting to arrive at your destination, thus looking back those seem a lot shorter than the first one
@The secular humanist Right.
This happens _all_ the time to me with music. I first watch a clip and it's like 6 minutes long, but if I watch it again immediately after, it's like 2 minutes. Sometimes I even watch it again because I feel like I didn't pay attention
Is it really two years since I wrote that first comment?
@@klondike444 how do u make time feel longer
I think the Dopamine Theory is into something. If anything gives you a sensation of being more interesting than usual, you'll pay attention on more details about it, retaining more details/information opens more opportunities to self-improvement/change which gives you an impression of having lived more/longer throughout that period. As if the brain interpreted new information/changes as units of measurement of time.
You don’t perceive it as long.. That happens if you have low dopamine levels according to the theory. Time flies when you’re having fun and it doesn’t past if you aren’t producing dopamine. The opposite is ridiculous to me but I wish it was true though.. I wish time would pass quickly when I’m bored and slowed down when I’m having fun. Oh that’s the dream..
T J No. The way they worded it was bad.
3:15 _"low dopamine makes them underestimate how fast time goes"_
What I understood from this is:
_"makes them underestimate how a lot of time has passed and they didn't notice"_
Since before she mentioned it, she said it was an evidence in favour of the theory that 3:06 _"extra dopamine makes time pass slower",_ which I understood like _"gives you an impression it took longer because more of it has passed"._
I didn't get the Music reference though.
IDK, maybe I understood everything wrong.
I'm 40 and sometimes stop to think about how many years have passed. I've literally done nothing different in the last 10 years - been single, working, just getting on, you know?
Only recently have I felt some despair at how easily a decade can be missed and all I can say to anyone under 30 is be mindful of this inevitability.
The only thing that seemingly eases the dread of getting older is to have people you care about with you for the ride.
Time perception is relative. That's why time goes so slowly when I'm visiting my relatives.
That's how Einstein actually developed his theory
maybe his aunt was so fat that time actually was slowed down around her?
mm... I give a B- to that one
nice!
oh my God you made me laugh so hard
I actually like when time goes slowly
Because life is a cruel joke?
Kyle Butler I think death is crueler. I like life but I don't like its ending.
Homo Sapien
You made it sound like some kind of bad movie
Yours?
@@makeupbyushna3085 i think kyle implies that. Life itself can be wonderful and, man look how interesting reality is. But we got self aware without being asked if we wanted to (birth). And now we have to deal with the question "why ?".
Sadly as fun as existance is, we all know its going to end and thats the cruel part. At least for me. I love studying and trying to understand everything, but death just makes it obcene.
Ask Islam about this
Have a good time, the clock moves faster. Have a bad time, the clock slows down. The trick is to not have a clock around to see you having a good time.
I dont wear a watch.
@@user-daviddog me too
When you're studying you're having a bad time but time moves fast af
Because when ur 16 you live in the moment
And when your 26 you live for the next pay day
I wish that was true.. I'm 16 and I can tell you that time already flies by... I feel really depressed cuz of it.
I'm 26 and can verify this because I'm about to be 27 in 2 weeks and am thinking where the hell that year went
@@rakisderra8095 time is an allusion
@@projectdcb7525 and so is money :)
@@rakisderra8095man you are 19 now. Im 18 and hate it
What does the clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds.
What a pun
Master Therion yeah. Feed your clock or you’ll always be too late!
Ha!
Justin
I'm confused. We are told to eat 3 square meals a day. But 3 squared is 9. I'd get fat if I 8 9 meals a day.
Last time my watch was "hungry" for a new battery, it told me by going forward four seconds at a time (no kidding!)
My own hypothesis is that since we know we're coming to the end of our lives, time becomes more precious.
when I was 7, I feel like 1 year is 10 years now 1 year is like a month for me
When i was 5 it felt like 20 years into my birthday
The past few weeks for me have gone by really quickly, but I just realized how I’m on my phone and doing things and worrying about things. Now I can enjoy activities and be on my phone less often! Thanks!
I’m 16 and recently I feel that the last 3 years have gone by faster than usual. I’m not saying “oh i’m 16 i’m so old now”, I’m saying I think my mind is stuck in 2017. Which in a way makes sense because that was my most exciting year for me, and I’ve done a lot of things that year. I don’t know, thought it’d be cool to share that.
Side note: Also time confuses the hell out of me. Every time I think back about something I did I’m like, “Wow that was 2 weeks ago?” or like something like that. Maybe its because I never worry about time or think about it, but I see a lot of comments saying it’s the other way around. Im hoping someone can relate.
I think it's because perception of time changes based on how intensely we are thinking if that makes sense. Like how videos of roller coasters look really short, but when you actually ride it, it's much longer, because of the adrenaline you think a lot more, so in a shorter time you process more stuff, making time pass slower for you. And when we're young we're constantly taking in new information, but when we don't when we're old, and many of us do basically the same thing every day for years.
I'm definitely a big subscriber to the Ratio Model. I think it makes a lot of intuitive sense.
Same. I came to the same conclusion myself before watching this video.
I wonder if the internet will change how this generation views the passage of time when they're older. We tend to have less patience and brand new memes get old within a week. With everything being outdated in an instant, I wonder how millennials will see time in their old age
Then again, there are a bunch of digital photo album and timeline keepers in social media that show you stuff that happened in the past. It’s much easier to keep track of significant events in your life now, and to keep track of others’, too. Seeing exactly how long ago something happened, and consistently seeing that info as time moves forward, could actually help people perceive time more accurately.
Markus Andreas Roth-Gross Thanks for the unwarranted assumption that I somehow lost all ability to be patient and I'm projecting this on an entire generation.
But uh, no. What I said is common knowledge. With the instant gratification from social media posts, the ability to binge watch, and anything we want almost instantly available, there's so much less waiting in today's world. This has made people in general less patient. It's a common millennial problem, seeing how they grew up on the internet, but it effects really anyone who spends a lot of time online. Especially on social media.
But since you missed the memo, somehow, here's some academic articles on it (You have to remove the space in the urls)
pewinternet. org/2012/02/29/millennials-will-benefit-and-suffer-due-to-their-hyperconnected-lives/
certi.mst .edu/media/administrative/certi/documents/Article-Millennial-Behaviors.pdf
And if you want just regular news articles, those are /everywhere/. I tried to find more study-backed sources though.
Think about future generations
the smaller you are the faster time goes
Feels like the other day it was 2013 so insane
Please, just give me the power of time control. I will pass any test
Who else wishes time flies when your bored but time is slow when youre having fun?
When I'm on a smartphone or computer, it really really flies
It’s simple. As we get older, our brains stop remembering every other second. Just not enough room. Damn, it’s summer?!?
jackpast, Under-sampling? Hmmm, need to check for aliasing.
Damn it is summer!
jackpast damn it’s November
Oh boi it is almost spring again
Smoothcode what the hell
I think other than that dopamine theory which I found quite logical, I think work life as an adult could also effect our perception of time. In most work lives, people always be in hurry, there is always something urgent or there is always someone to be called in 5 mins etc.etc. So we start to expect everything to happen faster, we start doing our daily routines faster just to have a little bit more time for ourselves. Then we stop for a moment and think how the time is going so fast when in fact it's us doing things faster and not realizing how is the time going while we're busy thus making what we do less significant to us too.
I miss the elementary school days of genuine friendships & carefree fun & judgement free love & voluntary, happy loyalty
Commander Waddles we were the most realist when we were kids. As you grow you start caring about what other people think
These were the best times for me as well
What?!! I'm now 58; and time seems to pass much more slowly now! As for my youth that seems like for-ever ago!
I’ve always time perception was predicated on how much we have as distraction during any span.
High School Musical....
happened *10 years ago?!?*
12 and a half now
Thank god
I think it's because time doesn't exist and when we look back, if we are older, we are like, "No way! It can't be that quick" and when we are kids, we really live in the moment, don't think about time, wait to be adults (and that takes a bit), and we don't have a backward frame of reference yet. Time ticks off, or the illusion of it, at the same rate all the time. It is exactly how long it should be. No less, no more. We feel it is fast the older we get because we recognize the fact that we will end at some point. We see, at 50, for example, that we only have about 30 left, maybe 20, and it trips us out and panics almost. It appears to have gone by fast. At 40, we realize that we are half way through and the last 20 went by quick. It didn't though. It's all in the mind. Time doesn't exist though, we all experience the rate of change a bit different.
It hit me last year on the 20th anniversary of 911. I said to my bro how September 11, 2001 was the halfway point between 1981 and then and how crazy that seemed to me. In 1981, for me, 2001 would have seemed so far in the future that it might as well be a lifetime. In hindsight, the last 20 years flew by much quicker than the 20 years between 1981 and 2001.
Bruh this vid is relatable af I’m 15 and it feels like it wasn’t long ago that I was 13 but when I was say 7 two years felt like a rlly long time I’ve been thinking abt this a lot lately bc I’m scared abt graduating high school and going to college and my hopes of starting a family not working out
Im 18 xD, iguess youre 17 now
How is life man
@@mosesnathanael1039you are 20
I have noticed that time, as I'm in it, seems to drag by. But then suddenly it's the 4th of July and I blink and it's Christmas. Even though the minutes seem to drag in the present, looking back at events, it seems impossible so much time could've passed.
Honestly my humble opinion is that when your young your usually more in the moment and when your older your thinking of the future and the past and time goes faster.
Interesting. It does seem like time passes much more quickly now that my manic depression evolved into just a regular old depression.
grow hollow and collapse, great metal band song.
I am 25, and still it feels like time is slow.
It feels like a roller coaster going down from the highest peak then accelerating faster and faster as it goes down with no chance at stopping until you reach a massive concrete wall.
This has been bugging the hell out of me for the past few years, many thanks for saving my sanity :~)
Time for me genuinely feels fast, a few days ago I was hacking a 3ds and that day just blew by and couldn't believe it was midnight when I was done, I even looked at the clock at times and all I can remember was it going from 6pm to 9pm to 12am in the span of what felt like 30 minutes. A few weeks ago though I covered shifts to get extra money and an hour felt like 3 hours, I'd be there for 8 hours and it felt like I was there for 15 hours at max but then the next staff came in and we chatted for an hour (I'm a talker haha) and it went back to feeling like 10 minutes
Never stayed in one state longer than a year as a kid but after I turned 14 I've been in the same state for almost two decades. The stuff from when I was a young kid seemed to have lasted longer than my whole life going forward after I stopped moving from state to state.
I do in fact think that having new things in life really do seem to slow the passage of time. Could just be me, however, that's my thoughts on this subject.
Time flies like like an arrow,
fruit flies like a banana.
I Copypasta'd this
I'm near 30, but I already feel like the days go slow, but the weeks and months go quickly. I imagine given a lifetime, the years eventually go quickly as well.
When you're older your experience or awareness of your existence spans a much longer period vs a day than when you're young which is why when you're young summer seems to last forever but when you're it flies by.
AYE I GRADUATED YESTERDAY AND IT TOTALLY FEELS LIKE I WAS JUST A FRESHMAN
Time, why you punish me?
Like a wave crashing into the shore . .
You wash away my dreams . .
Time, why you walk away? . .
Like a friend with somewhere to go . .
You left me crying . .
Core memories become very rare when you're an adult :(
I am very certain that it comes from less free time.
When you are busy all day, then you don't ponder so much about philosophical things like this.
You only "really" realize how much time has passed, once you get to settle down and reflect upon the last months or years.
2020 felt like a week
2021 felt like a day 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Age is nothing but a number!..live by the day thank god for each day..💯
Can confirm, just turned 28, feels like 10 years flew by.
yup
Your coment is 4 yr old
32 by now
Time feels longer as I age :(
I believe that the following is the more accurate answer, the same way when you're bored or scared time seams to go slower, and when you're having fun, time seams to go faster, when you're a kid you think you're going to leave 100 years, and it seams so far away, you don't worry to much about it, you might get scared sometimes, but still you expected to happen when you get old, as you get older you become more aware of your mortality, and you get more worry each day, you worry more about eating healthy, exercising, checking in with the doctor, dentist, etc, you become more aware the each day is one less day, and the older you get the more you feel today could be my last day, it's proven that the way you feel changes your perception of time, I think this is it, and maybe all the other things mentioned in this video play a small role too.
I feel like if we could live forever, time would eventually go by instantly.
I guess 2018 went by quick
When I'm doing something that is fun time goes faster and when I do something boring it goes slower wtf
I’m waiting for middle school to go by really fast because then my parents know I’m dating and don’t care but at this point I’m in middle school and they care about everything I need time to pass by please 😢
enjoy middle school i’m going into sophomore year n wished i just enjoyed time more back then
Time perception is so interesting and important for nowadays
Also, when you are little, a year feels like forever. It's such a large proportion of your entire experience. Like 1/3, 1/6, 1/10th, 1/15th etc... but as an adult, a year is like 1/30th or 1/40th or 1/50th etc... of your entire experience...
Time is relative, some it feels so long some feels so short. If you wait its a long time, if you are patience its a short time.
I remember just moving to Texas from Worcester and it’s been already been 3 years since I moved
I won't even need a fan next summer. I can just use a wall clock! lmao!
Time already flies for me and I’m not even in high school
its already march and my birthday is on the 19th. im only 13 but it feels like yesterday it was my birthday
I think maybe it's a 20th century phenomenon. When I was a kid, culture and technology were constantly changing. The difference between, say, 1977 and 1992 was huge. I went from having no cable TV and no video games and not even a VCR, to having the internet. My parents and grandparents went through similar changes. But I think in the last 15 years, there's been very little change. You could say smart phones and RUclips are new things, but the difference hasn't been that much. Even popular music doesn't seem much different from 15 years ago until now. The music from 1977 (like disco) felt VERY dated even by 1984. A car from 1977 also would have looked VERY dated 10 years later. But now a car from 2008 looks basically the same as a new car. It just feels like things are changing a lot less.
I think it passes more quickly because we compare it to how much time we think we have left.
I feel like it's more about looking forward to things. When you're young, you have (for most of us) waaaaaaaay more events to look forward to in both the immediate, and long-term future; when you're old, not so much. Now that I'm well into my 40s, I've noticed this more because I have an average of like 1 event per year to really look forward to, and it strikes me how time does seem to pass more slowly, particularly in the weeks/days leading up to it. For most of us, when we're a kid, almost every day has an exciting event.
I can’t believe I’m 32. It’s weird. Sometimes I still feel 16 like I should be waiting for my parents to tell me to go wash the dishes then I feel 21 at times- still can’t believe I’m 32 and have to be an adult. Seems I blinked and Christmas is once every 3 months- too fast :(
Repititive routine evryday life.. for exp : wake up > work > eat > sleep and again again again.. it makes time slip so fast.. i think the theory is.. make something different evryday with fun for urself.. dont just boring repeated day routine.. it make the time sleep.. u wont realize ur time flow.. bcoz the time when it get sleep, u got a dream.. and u know when u get a dream the next u wake up is morning.. time so fast passing by.. ☻
I feel like when your younger your time is more segmented. All throughout schooling, your day is broken up into multiple classes, whereas when you're an adult it's broken down into at work and not at work, or if you look at the clock often, then work, lunch, home. School feels slow because you're waiting for the next class and you're thinking about it constantly. "I still have an hour left in math class...ugh.". As an adult you're like "Just 3 and a half more hours till clock-out." And when you're retired it goes by the fastest because you're usually only thinking about when you need to go to sleep. As you grow older, you'll hopefully also be doing more things you like doing. The saying "Time flies when you're having fun" would also relate. When you're younger you're constantly being told what to do. Grade school is this completely. But as you become an adult, you start doing things because you want to, and I think as you get older, that becomes even more the case, where you'll only do things because you want to. I feel like both of these things contribute towards peoples perception of how fast time goes. You can see it when you're younger too. Summer vacation always feels short because you're having fun doing what you want to be doing and because time is segmented into days instead of into classes.
I got a little excited when I saw the title of this episode because it's a subject I have considered a lot and it's a subject that I have a theory (sorry, hypothesis) about - and I'm a bit nervous now because no comments have gone there
I suspect that it may be about the rate at which the brain samples the environment
We don't accept a continuous stream of data with our senses, we sample at a definable rate
I think that rate is high when the brain is new, spongelike and also when excited by stress hormones, drugs etc but that sampling rate decreases with age?, boredom, lack of stimuli???
I don't know, just been one of my pet "theories"
When i was younger, i used to think 1 hour was long, now i feel like 1 hour isnt enough time
My perception of time noticeably changes when extremely tired or drunk... I can actualy use the tempo of really familiar songs to check how drunk i am
When I was younger, one year always felt unimaginably long to me, but after I was 13, Every time I thought about something that happened the last year, I actually felt surprised that it just felt like it recently happened, and today im in 9th grade but I still don’t think time has really went on since my 6th grade year
I know what you mean even something from a decade ago feels like 2 minutes ago to me time is so weird
Time flies by when you're having fun , time slows down when you're in love .😏
We're soaaaaarin', flyyyyyyin'
Time is the biggest enemy of everything
I'm 27 and feel old af
Time feels like it flys but I don’t want it to stop because school hours go by quick XD
I always assumed it was due to how much of a percentage of your life span it was. When you are a year old, a year is all of your life, and more time than you can imagine or comprehend. When you are 20, a year is 5% of your life, very easy for your to imagine and comprehend.
Fascinating subject! Thank you for discussing.
🎵Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream 🎵
Why would I want to die slower?
This video goes so quick
I've always figured that it had something to do with changes in metabolism.
In my case, I have very bad memory from when I was young and a teenager, and I have started doing a lot of new things in my life, so I feel as if time was moving slower.
*Snooze for 10 min*
15 seconds later
*alarm goes off*
I believed the ratio model, but the effect that dopamine levels have is also interesting.
Its true that time seems to go faster as we got older cause when i was younger i used to think 1 hour was long but now i feel like 1 hour isnt enough time
I literally was just thinking about this.
There's an opposite effect for me sometimes. For example, Revenge of the Sith came out in 2005, but it feels like it should be a decade older than that.
Personal theory I had was that time phenomenon is related to memory level.
The more you remember the the faster it feels like. Which would coincide with kids having time feel slower, The more fuzy a memory feels the longer ago it feels like it happened. I personally don't feel like 1 day goes by faster than when I was a kid, 1 year does feel like it goes by faster. But 1 day can feel like it lasted forever when too much happened in it so that you can't remember everything and some bit feel fuzzier than others. And I also don't feel like time goes faster now that I'm 33 compare to when I was 20 and memory level are about the same.
Been thinking about that theory for a long time and couldn't find anything that contradicted it.
Wouldn't this theory also fit the Alzheimer thing?
I Personally think that the percentage of life you've lived theory is baloney considering time perception change drastically when you're near the end of puberty and never feel like it changes after that.
High school musical came out ten years ago?!?! I remember when it was released.... I want to die.....
Idk it always seems like time is going 2x faster for me it all started in 8th grade I remember time used to go slower - normal but now it always goes so fast even when I’m bored but when I’m having fun it seems to go 3x faster so I fear my life is only gonna feel like 30 years them I’m gonna die so I GOTTA DO EVERYTHING NOW. I do that then I get burned out. Then rinse and repeat
I’m 18 and going to be 19 next year and time studies might be the cause
growing up = less dopamine = time flying by.
smoking a blunt = high dopamine = "time goes slow"
i guess it happens to humans... (although when im high, i dont feel that "slow time")
Andre Barros I dont feel slow time high either. Actually I feel it go faster
The movie your Life - fun to watch, but the end is a real killer.
I wish time slows down even we have pandemic or not