Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- 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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Nerve conduction velocity slowing with age:
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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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Attention’s relation to time perception and recollection of perceived time:
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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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I would like ur comment but you have 420 likes
true hahaha!
NecroAngel Declares War especially if yer horking your cookies 🍪 🤢🤮
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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.
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 wanted to slow time, so I switched over to Internet Explorer.
*XDDDDDDDDDD*
ابو ليث الخطيب Fail
Your patience level must have sky-rocketed!
Sikh Atheist 😂😂
Don’t you mean Netscape? 😂
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😂
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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Abraço João.
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
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
Longest 5 seconds?
waiting to skip a youtube ad.
Check out the longest 5 seconds on RUclips by the slow mo guys
they changed it to 6....
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I was gonna say slo mo guys
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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
Since 2020 everything seems happening in a very very fast way.
Facts
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
*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
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.
@@Logicon1138 ???
@@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.
3 years after COVID but feels like COVID was just year ago
Because we're enjoying it...seriously? (actually because of (repetition)
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
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.
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 !
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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...
😭
Facts
Exactly man Exactly!
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 :)
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 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 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'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.
can i be your friend?
@@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!
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
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
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
*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.
Life was slower without social media. Thats it. Nothing else.
Only times it feels faster is when I'm either really enjoying it or really busy but when I'm waiting on something it's slow.
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 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.
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.
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
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 watched this video when it came out and suddenly im 8 years older. Idk where all that time went and it will only get worse from here
I swear to god 2013 - 2020 era are golden days they flew very fast... Damnnnn i wish i could go back in time.... Time flies ✨✨
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
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!!!
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
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!
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
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
That rat experiment is so disturbing
Thanks for speaking my brain outloud.
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
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.
When doing things you love, time seems to fly by but things u hate, it slows time like slow death.
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.
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
"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.
Fr like a year ago going to work time was slow but a year later time is speeding up 2x as fast for me
I was in 5th and 6th grade when COVID started in 2020. It’s crazy that I managed to graduate 2 schools and now I am in High School. Because here where I live you’re still in Elementary in 5th and 6th.
To really make time slow down, relatively speaking, just stand next to something more massive or travel faster.
True, but the gravity of an object massive enough to change relative time noticeably would crush you.
+David S. that's true but it is not the actual passof time that were analizing it is only the perception of it that that we're interested in. In your example time would realy go faster but we would not percieve it.
+Viral Shift then orbit it instead of resting on it
+Giedrius Grigas True. You could even orbit a supermassive black hole, couldn't you. The time dilation at that point would be substantial.
+Viral Shift -Would it mean, that theoretical life forms that are closer to the center of our galaxy would be underdeveloped compared to the ones at the edge because of time dilation caused by stronger gravitational pull?
Or would the effect be negated since other theoretical life forms at the edge of galaxy would be moving at a greater angular velocity than the ones closer to the center, thus experiencing same degree of time dilation?
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the tips!
Because of this video I hired a strange man to live in my apartment with me and frequently hide and attack me leaving no option but to lock myself in my room and barricade the door. The last few days have felt like years!
*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?
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
As we grow older we are more aware of time! A job requires you be on time ready to do your job ! When cooking a meal for the family the time rules ! we are ruled by TIME !
Felt it right now, in my 16s. It felt like school just started but actually I'm 3 months away from graduating junior high school.
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
“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
A 7 hour schoolday used to feel like an eternity. Now i work 8 hour shifts that fly by as if they didn't happen.
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.
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.
As a teen, I often forget the mathematically obvious about time, already experiencing a logarithmic timeline. Examples below:
• 2016 is closer to 2010 than 2023.
• New Year's Day of 2018 is closer to 1 decade ago than it is to today.
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!
Flow for me happens when watching RUclips. 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 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
I noticed it deeply when I was searching for an address. Going till the last of a new lane seems to be longer than coming back on the same path.
2017 was 5 years ago and I still can't digest it
4:13 anyone else think the car was there longer initially? 😂
Me
When you get older, routine sets in. Every day, week, month, year seems the same. Then you get to a point where it is Christmas AGAIN? If you want time to go by super slow, hold your breath.
"Routine".
Exactly.
lets hope you do what you love for $
Or quit your job
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 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
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
My doctorial thesis went over this, and my end theory was a bit different.
When you're a kid, you have a lot more "free time", so you value time less than you do when you're an adult. As an adult you understand better that you have a lot less free time. You have to work, there are obligational chunks of time used, say for house chores or maybe getting your car serviced, even just going to work.
When you are younger you don't have to worry so much about not having time to do something you want to do, because you have a lot less obligational time. But as you grow older you get more obligational time in your day, and it seems to grow continually as you age. First, it's due to maturing and the need to satisfy your responsibilities, and then as you reach retirement it's the knowledge that you don't have a lot of time left. As you start to face death, either by losing those close to you or just reaching the point where you have so much you want to do and have never done, your conscious mind starts to understand that every minute you have left is numbered. And you start to feel that you are running out of time. Once you begin to understand that everyone does die, you now see time in a bottle, it's limited. It's not just a tap you can turn on like you did as a kid, you know eventually the bottle will run out. You start to appreciate time more, you value it far as you age, this leads to time seemingly being so short.
That aging makes you feel like you've missed a lot of time in your life over the mundane, because of all the obligatory time you have had. Vacations are faster, days off blow by, because despite the fact that you have free time now, compared to the obligatory time you have, it's a much smaller amount.
An older person who has memory issues, enjoys a slower passing of time. They don't remember the obligatory time they have had, they don't remember the time they have "wasted" in their lives, so to them, it's much like a small child again. This helps to prove that the passage of time is a subconscious view of the time used in your life. When your brain can't or won't process in the moment the amount of time you have used, compared to the knowledge that it will run out, time slows down for you. But once you realize more and more that you just don't have enough time in your day, you're perception of time seems to speed up.
My goddess. . . . . . I relate to this so so much... It's kinda insane
Well stated. I identify with this 100%
So it's all stress related and we killing ourself by obligations of repeating the thought process which limit the space for other thoughts to be in the moment.
Is it why people with stress are feeling less when walking the woods as their brain focus on a single task. Time fly by as the brain is overstimulated by all the faces and tasks they have to do. Stimulation is happening when you see a pretty person. Devices who stimulate make time fly faster. We're programmed to feel a stimulation of doing a task over again. Our breeding technique is based on repetition.
Well said, but I never thought this topic would require such in depth analysis.
When writing your thesis what were some of the references you used to identify some of your conclusions? I'd like to do some research myself. Thanks.
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.
People ask Why is life so short?
Actually it's not.
Do one experiment.
Close yourself in a room, keep all internet/computer/phone outside.
Just do nothing. Live like this for 5 days.
Your overstimulated mind will start to go crazy, and each hour will look like many hours looking at the seconds hand of the watch.
You will find out that life is extraordinarily long.
But you will want to immediately go back to your old life.
Compare the above to days when you go out with friends to watch movies etc, before you know the day ends.
Nowadays we live like this and before we know years have passed.
So right answer is we have found ways to spend time faster, the speed of life hasn't changed.
So, it's upto the person to make it fast or slow
I’ve been driving manual transmission cars since 1977. I used to be aware of every single shift. Then one day, probably in the early 1990’s, I was at a red light. It turned green, I was driving down the road and I noticed I was in my top (5th) gear. I did not at all remember doing any of the shifting from 1st, to 2nd, etc. It was as if I started out in 5th gear and never touched the shifter. I think all of our daily life, by the time we are older, is mostly repetitious. Doing repetitious things is not noticed as much by the brain and in effect time seems to go faster.
Started driving manual this year and I’m already experiencing this
wow, this is what people said driving manual will be after some time. I've just started out, so haven't yet reached that level, but trying!
Yeah, our brains are crazy. It is quite scary when you suddenly realise that you drove couple of kilometers without remembering it. Has happened to me couple of times. Daily commutes to/from work.
@@spaceshipearth356 I was going to use this exact same example I drove the same route same time for years at one job and some days I’d get on the highway have some music playing and zone out to only realize it once I’m getting off at my exit and it’s not like I wasn’t paying attention I would pass cars and check my blind spots and make sure I didn’t even speed but my brain would basically erase all that unless I thought about it.
@@gradientO I'd say about 6-8 months until you feel like a confident driver in the majority of situations. And in the 2-5 year range you'll hardly ever think about it
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.
Yep I’m 70 and time definitely goes faster now than it did. Perhaps it’s because you think about death more than you used to and that you’re aware of how much time you likely have left.
I'm only 18 and think about death and the future way more than I should lol
awesome info !!!!! thank you!