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Why have you also felt that time passes faster to as you grow? I remember that when I was 12 years old, the prospect of turning 15 seemed unreal, but once I turned them, time seemed to be thrown by a slide.There is an explanation for that feeling, and here in Science Daily Online you we will talk about it.
Why does it seem that time passes faster as we get older?
Everything seems to indicate that it is our perception that changes; Obviously, time goes on as usual, but our ability to evaluate it changes as we turn older.
Let's think about a 5-year-old boy, and ask him to count the days for Christmas (let's say it's December 15); From that date, the scarce 10 days left will seem like an eternity, what if? Those of us who have children know that these days will be torture, and that ten minutes will not pass without them saying again, “there are still ten days left!” Because for the one year it is 20% of his entire life, his perception is notoriously other than that of an adult of, for example, 35 years.
Albert Einstein said about our perception of time, that an hour next to a pretty girl was passing much faster than the same period in a dentist's chair.Time is relative, and how we experience it depends on how old we are when we perceive it.
If we think about the duration of an average life-say 80 years-, we can understand the point.The younger you are, the more new things you live, the more experience you are accumulating, and as you get older-and always do the same things-the days tend to be the same, so there are no "milestones" that stop you and mark the time.
There is a small experiment, which you can do too: ask a young person and another not so much to calculate, without counting, when A minute has passed.Young people tend to calculate time more accurately, and older people will feel that time goes by faster.
Until about 18 years, time is slower, and then of the 30, the feeling will be that every year of life is equally short.The apparent reason is that we perceive our first years much longer than those that come later because we measure time proportionally to the duration of our life.
There is some evidence that we tend to remember the events of our lives between 15 and 25 more vividly because at that stage it is when we experience more c new bears .The associated emotion can intensify the sensation of slowness (“it was eternal while it lasted”, and it was a week).
If we think mathematically, human perception of time is logarithmic and not linear (at the beginning it will be like a stretched line, to be compressed at the end, as shown in the graph).But the perception is not the only reason why we feel that time passes faster.
attention is another important factor: we don't pay attention to every detail of the day (living “the here and now”, for example), and the routine does that the brain feels the same as daily events.
Another possible reason has to do with biology ; It is true that our sense of time is influenced by the “internal clock”, circadian rhythms that work with light and its absence.But research from a few decades ago has shown that body temperature influences our temporal perception.secret that during childhood, the human being has a higher body temperature than when he becomes an adult, and it may not be a coincidence that when we are little, time passes more slowly.If you have a fever, an hour may seem like an eternity.
The same happens if you are depressed or feel rejected: time seems to stop.Something we can do to stop this speed is to get out of the routine, do different things, create new memories, and try as much as possible to live in the moment .Age brings less new experiences and more automatisms, more customs, and that is why time passes faster.
You have to shake and face the day as if it were the last of our lives.If you live (and not only think about living), you can perceive time in a totally different way.
Does time pass faster or slower for you? Share it with us and read also 8 ways to make your brain more powerful.
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