How is it that our sense of time seems to accelerate as we grow older?

I remember being a child and thinking a year lasted forever, but now the days and months seem to go by in the blink of an eye. I have accomplished much in these past few years and have worked to improve myself, but time always feels like it's going a notch too quickly which makes me fear the day it runs out, that I would have died the same as I was in my youth. Not to mention a weaker sense of actualization of the memories made along the way. What do you think lain? Is there a way to slow it down?

lack of novelty. Only new things are memorable, if you repeat same routine it blends together. From experience 2months on a expedition felt longer than previous decade stuck in in same town. Probably also should consider how much time you spend online with soykafchat not worth remembering. That's ultimately all shortening your experienced time looking back. The real trouble is retaining discipline to focus only on what matters and not getting lazy again. Me being here just illustrates how i fail at it myself.

It's simple, our age to time ratio is always increasing. When you are 2 years old 1 year of time is 50% of the time you were alive. When you were 10, 1 years is equal to a tenth of your time alive. That's why years felt so much longer as a child and it feels like time is accelerating as you age. Because a year is just a reference point to the amount of time you existed and it feels smaller the more you age. To stop the acceleration of time? Perhaps take control of time be efficiently organizing a schedule and try to focus on being present, not the past or future. We only have a limited amount of time sp you may as well waste as little as possible

My theory regarding this idea is that time isn't showing, but people are speeding up. Network communicating mediums have sped up communication to a point that it seems like so much is happening, when in reality the same amount happens but we are aware of more of it. Mass media enforces the idea that we must be I do agreeaware of event all the time and this burns up more of our time that used to be spent on internal activities. I also agree with the others here, their explanations make a lot of sense

As a kid, a day seemed so long for me, whenever I woke up I'd be filled with sadness about the fact I had to be alive for a whole new day. Now, a day goes by so fast. This guy is spot on about the reason why, IMO: >>65824

>>65824 Does anyone have any advice on how to "live in the moment"? I feel like I'm always either struck by anxiety of the future or longing for the past. I'm trying to pick up a comfy hobby so I hope that will help.

>>66057 I think asking this question and really trying to answer it basically leaves you with the task of fixing your life, up to a point. Some things are necessary, food, money etc, if you don't have enough money then you'll always be anxious about the future, so in some sense you need to be materially secure etc for that. As for the kind of, leftover habits of attachment, the problem is that if you're fixated on not having these kinds of attachments about the future and the past then you just have an identical problem. I can't really say how to get from A to B. I went through this in my life (a little, at least) and as soon as I noticed I was like "I'd never be able to get this across to my past self". I'll try and describe B anyway, I guess. You need to not feel like you care, moment to moment. Musicians talking about playing without judgement, for example. If they care how well they play when performing, they'll do badly. It's contradictory in a way. Talking to buddhist/meditation people about this is probably worthwhile, this is basically the core of it, a generalised "living in the moment"

>>66056 This is so interesting— when I was kid I had immense sadness about how quickly time was passing/ close to death we were and would cry about it at night. >>65822 Journaling helps keep track of time. Frequently revisiting important events in the last year also helps frame how much time has passed. If you fill up your weeks with novel moments and keep track of them, you may find that a year feels longer than before

>>66057 That's what the entirely of Buddhism is about

>>65822 Time keeping as we see it is a social construct. Our years are kept since the birth of a dude that we were like 5 years off. Our months are kept by rulers that most people aren't even aware of except Augustus and Julius maybe. Weeks have a similar story. Time does pass. Your interpretation is made up tough, Our "inner clock" does generally not really orient itself to this system fully. It might be influenced by seeing the weekend as a cool thing and such and therefor also kinda make it's own cycle, but your growth can't be really characterized by age, for example people do go trough stages of puberty completely differently depending on internal factors. But we can generalize time ranges. Therefor also see the age of 18 as being something were most people are able to make there own stuff, but that is debatable throughout cultures and time. For example in some tribe in South America or somewhere you are considered an adult when going trough the pain of bullet ants or something. Why am I saying this? Well, time as you know it isn't real. You are not aware of when your death might happen so maybe you had a phase in live were keeping time in years did feel faster. I also agree with >>65824 . Also Covid-19 was a thing and many people didn't do a lot of things so less important memories stuck. >>66057 You cannot "live in the moment" when the entire idea of society is planning ahead. You literally have to go unabomber with less bombs if you actually want to live in the now or as >>66076 pointed out, literally most monks don't give a fuarrrk so they can be in the now... but also they aren't really because they believe in an afterlife, therefor also ignoring their most precious thing. Life itself. So idk go read Nietzsche or something.

>>65824 Why do we still reference short time periods Δt to out whole lifetime T even if as adults memories of earlier years fade and don't really amount to anything anymore. Let's say I'm 25, in my mind I'm conscious since 15, there are no distinct memories before that, yet my time perception still feels as passing too quickly.

>>66247 > in my mind I'm conscious since 15 holy cow what sort of person are you I have clear memories from when I was four and those are just the ones I can actually determine a date for. I'm about as old as old as you btw.