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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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'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.
@@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.
@@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!
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...
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..
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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."
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
I’m 76 and my minute was 58 seconds. This time last year feels like it was years ago, but a lot has happened, a lot of novelty and little repetition. I also make a point of learning new things which are intellectually challenging, not just acquiring new knowledge but things which are a real struggle to master. It is very easy to get into a rut mentally and physically when you get older.
I'm 50 and I stopped my minute after 51 seconds. I also don't feel that time is speeding up with age. Although, I believe when I was very young time felt a bit slower simply because I wasn't aware that my life is limited.
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..
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 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.
+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!
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.
@@Huntski36 (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 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.
@@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.
If you live to be 80, you reached temporal middle age at 27. People who seek novelty can stretch their middle age beyond 27. Vacations, learning new languages/instruments, new cultures, new hobbies/arts, etc, these are enriching moments that force the mind to take a deeper impression thus also slowing down the perception of time. Learning new tasks forces the mind to be engaged, the more thoughts/neuron pulses per moment of time, the longer time is stretched.
Yup my college years have gone by so slowly looking back because of how many experiences I’ve had and how much change I’ve endured. A week feels much longer than it did in middle school or high school even though I still feel old (I’m only 20)
What do you mean by “temporal middle age”? 26.66 is 1/3 of 80. 2/3 is 53.33. 50% would be 40, which is middle age. Age 20 means you’ve reached 25% of the average lifespan, meaning a quarter of your life on average is over. Scary when you actually think about it…
I’m 24 and I felt the reality how time went by and how time felt like forever. Me and my fiancé took a vacation after I graduated college and it’s my first vacation I ever took in my life so it was so foreign to me. It was a 6 day vacation to St Augustine and Tampa. Let me tell you those six days was amazing and it felt like forever. When we got back home it felt like I haven’t been back for like months and it was a cool but different experience.
Yes so if you want to ‘slow time’, just do something exciting instead of always working or studying. Go make fun memories with your loved ones every week. Maybe in weekends, or in the evenings after work. You will ‘slow time’ with it
I'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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
I haven’t even started watching but first thing that comes to mind is that when we’re kids up until 21, everything feels like it’s evolving and we’re set on a path for growth and development both physically and mentally. But as we get into our 20s and later, it’s really all up to us individually to keep progressing and I think a lot of us fall short, years pass by, and we feel like we haven’t grown or accomplish much. You periodically stop to reflect and realize “wow, not much has really changed”. That’s how I feel at least
As a child you do a lof of stuff you don't want to. A lot of sitting, waiting for the clock, doing what grown-ups tell you to. After that life is coming at you non-stop until you die.
There was a quote in the Matilda movie about Matilda learning as a child what most people don’t learn until their early 30s, how to take care of themselves. I never understood it until I’m almost 30 now.
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.
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
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
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).
I heard that the reason time flies when you get older is because you experience fewer new things. Life becomes a routine and most days are not memorable. So when old people try to go back in time to find memories, they feel like the last months didn't even excist. Just like we all feel that the year 2020 doesn't exist in our memories because we didn't experience much memorable during lockdown. That makes 2019 feel like one year ago and time went fast forward.
Yeah. My 2020 exists but only partially. I remember only few times, like the days in Florence when I met my GF and gosh those were only 3 days though seem like entire weeks, unlike the period from March to July that were 4 to 5 months of nothing feel like well nothing, I passed those months at home, watching TV, playing on my phone and sleeping, it's really nothing, I also remember my time in Naples, 7 days and again feels like much longer, that's my 2020 for ya. It feels like we never lived it, 2019 and then 2021, just lived some weeks in 2020, doesn't matter how hard I try I can't really focus on nothing from 2020, I can't really catch anything important to attach myself to. And that also might explain why those 3 days in Florence are so important to me, like I can't even begin to explain why I felt so good, I never felt that good again even with my GF in the past 18 months.
This. When we are young, we remember each and every experience because it was new. Our brain remembers the "first" encounter of each thing. But when we age, we experiences things that we've already done time and time again. Our brain don't remember those.
That is what i have always told to myself and to people around. And that is why I will always try to find new things to experience. I am right now soon to become 21 years old, but I have been a sound technician, builder, cook, an actor, an improv actor, been to 4 different schools (if we do not consider online courses) and right now I am learning IT. I train my brain everyday as much as I can and try to give it as much variety as I can. Also as I have in the past felt a burnout, I know to keep an eye on my free time so that I could also from time to time think of my past and see if I am happy about it.
Does that mean that a potentially reliable way to keep feeling young and having time move slow as It used to Is to constantly find new novel things, to keep learning, and wondering, and exploring. And perhaps to learn to never stop appreciating the new and novel? Seems like a good deal I think.
5:31 you can also take this as: you can speed up time by using distractions. Meaning that being on your phone watching instagram or tiktok speeds up your time perception. So that way you have more control over how long you want something to last.
The novelty really resonated with me. I'm 24 going to be 25 this September. Life just feels like a blur except a few novelty memories I have that are insane. The pandemic years recently seemed to literally be the fastest years of my life. I at one point caught myself saying I was 22 and realizing, "wow, I'm almost 25... What am I thinking?" I never really thought much about my age until now I am still young but it seems like it is going so fast and this year I will have my first kid and I will be done with college. These events have literally seem to appear from thin air like my marriage it all seems to have happened so quickly it seems unbelievable. My wife and I have known each other 5yrs and I very distinctly remember the day we met and everything we did that day and most of our conversations. Sometimes I am awake at night and think just how quickly one day I'll be old and soon dead. Once you realize this speed of time it really makes you reconsider what you should invest your time in because it's just so short.
Time goes really fast when you have nothing new to do. Thats what I have gathered. The more new things you do,the slower time goes. When the brain has something new to look/think/experience, it spends and uses more energy. I hope this helps.
@@dannyh5039 I agree when we think of things unknown and uncertain we thing of how it'll be a long time to get somewhere. Yet looking back so many things seem so close to now. Very well said.
When you're 17 you can't wait to turn 21 etc etc but now I'm 48 and these "milestones" comes at you with the speed of light. I think its only ones perception that time goes faster
Life sucks if you really think about it. Most of us have to work hard to enjoy life and working 5 days a week always feels like a lifetime but enjoying the fruits of labor during weekends always feels like a minute. IT'S MONDAY AGAIN! 😂
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?
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.
@@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.
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.
One of the best examples I can give of time slowing due to fear is a crash, I was in a motorcycle crash and it felt like I was sliding for hours, I saw all the dust flying up, I saw the cracks forming in my mirror, I felt my collarbone slowly break, the fabric of my shirt tearing along with my skin, it was such a surreal experience where all of my senses were heightened that made something that lasted only 5 seconds at the most feel like hours flew by
Oh so that's why some action movies have that effect, I just watched black widow and there's was like a slow motion car explosion, anyway I hope recovery is going/went well
I know exactly what you mean. You would think that while you are in that matrix, you would have made better decisions pertaining to self-preservation. Nope It's all bollixed
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.
The whole scared thing as a gamer has never been so relatable. When I’m playing action FPS games time flies. As soon as I ever played a horror game I tell myself it’s only been 45 minutes?
When you record an intense play that seemed like it took 30 seconds but it took 5 seconds. I feel like it has more to do with the amount of information you are taking in in such a small timeframe more than what he said
Never played fps games really but when I’m fighting against people in Minecraft Bedwars if there’s multiple of them everything just seems to happen in like 10 seconds even if it’s actually a minute
@@billmoyer3254 How so? I’ve never heard anyone claim before that entertainment is worthless, the entire goal of living is to try and have a nice life and if you can do that through gaming then by all means do so.
@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 I wouldn't say worthless but if you were just to play games compared to building a shed I'm pretty sure you'd feel more fulfilment from building the shed. That's after you've finished though.
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.
+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 -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?
Very true I'm 16 and these 4 years of covid felt so fast. I so vividly remember 1st Jan midnight 2022 and now its September 2024. It surely passes damn fast!
Specifically, the reason is myelin. Myelin is the insulation on the axon or connection between neurons. Our body produces less and less myelin the older we get, we need lots of myelin as young kids because we desperately need to adapt to the world around us. “Struggling” is what causes cells in your brain called oligodendrocytes to insulate your neural connections with myelin. Layers of myelin affects how fast/strong/precisely neurons fire. This is also why learning things at a young age is better, and why it gets harder to learn skills as you get older.
Americans have many deficiencies. B-12 is required for myelin. You also cannot have a well functioning brain if you don't have good magnesium or zinc in your diet. Which also causes low libido.
How exactly does this correlate with the 'feeling' that life moves faster as we get older? Is the implication that because we are moving slower, or because our axons are becoming less insulated make the world around us seem faster? I said in a comment I just made a few minutes ago: "I haven't watched the video but it goes something like this if I had to guess: 5 multiplied by 2 is 10. Doubling 5 is simply 10. A 5 year old would experience 100% more of life in just 5 years, when he or she becomes 10. 20 multiplied by 2 is 40. Doubling 20 is obviously 40. So, a 20 year old would have to experience 20 more years of life just to experience that same 100% more life that a 5 year old (moving to 10) would feel. This continues, for a 40 year old, they would have to become 80 years old to experience the same percentage of life as the previous examples."
@@mjgmusic2619 sort of, not directly I think, but certain foods like lions mane mushroom have been known to have neurogenic properties, and increase myelin production
One of the great myths of life is that childhood passes quickly. In fact, because time moves more slowly in Kid World--five times more slowly in a classroom on a hot afternoon, eight times more slowly on any car journey of more than five miles (rising to eighty-six times more slowly when driving across Nebraska or Pennsylvania lengthwise), and so slowly during the last week before birthdays, Christmases, and summer vacations as to be functionally immeasurable--it goes on for decades when measured in adult terms. It is adult life that is over in a twinkling. (Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid)
I think the saying that childhood passes quickly is from the perspective of parents and other adults who are watching the kid grow up. Especially if you're a grandparent or other relative who doesn't see them every day! It feels like you're holding this tiny baby one day and the next they're as tall as you and wanting to go on a date. That's why it's so important to do memorable activities together, so it's not all just a blur of everyday routine.
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.
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.
Another angle that always throws me through a loop, is that we live in the present, no exceptions. There is no past or future that we ever get to live in, just the now. So while that time I broke my ankle in high school was much longer ago than what I had for dinner last night, the two events feel equidistant in terms of time, as neither takes any longer to recall than the other.
You don't have time tags?! All my memories have time tags, and there's even different coloured tags for real life and dreams. I thought everyone had time tags...
well u can think as a timeline, left is past middle is now and right is future, and play it. u will realize theres no present it just goes left to right forever which is only past to future but it goes even deep, what will happen if u stop this? or what will u call it past or future? thats the Present :)
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
I’ve been having a life crisis over this exact concept for the last two years now. Every morning when I wake up I feel like if I blink, it’ll be night time. It’s actually become so terrifying for me because it feels like my life is getting away from me and I don’t know what to do about it. Nothing I do - even if it is literally nothing or just simply waiting for something - seems to slow things down. I’ve come close to having a panic attack over this and it’s scary.
I get it . In the blink of an eye. I wake up usually in a great deal of physical and mental pain. I have 2 furry companions that I need to care for. That keeps me focused on the now. I’d rather lie in bed and let my life just slip away. Hard to do when someone needs a walk and I have a cat box to clean. Trust me, I’m horribly depressed for many reasons, but if you find something to focus on you will forget about being terrified. It doesn’t matter what needs to be done. Water a plant, volunteer at an animal shelter. Pick up that book you started. Or a movie you didn’t finish. Shop online, or better yet, window shop online. Anything so your terrified thoughts are gone because you’re to busy to entertain them.
@@taylorrice8612 yes, exactly. I’ve found interesting things to study and explore to keep me engrossed in this world, shuts down that endless broken record in my head that wants to replay painful events and times people hurt me. I’m too busy studying Catherine the Great or the Tizer Dolmans in Montana, discovering that America has larger, more extensive megaliths than what we see at Stonehenge in England, but so few people even know this. So, boom, I’m not stuck in my head, I’m pursuing knowledge and it’s very healing. Hope this helps someone, I had to learn the hard way that my mind, left to it’s own devices, needs to be redirected to something more healthy. At 62, I’m doing a better job of taking control and taking responsibility for improving my head, and therefore, my life.
gaming is good to engage and can't think about other things cause your focused on story or to win helped me through rough childhood with yelling and verbal abuse was always my escape and there is games from anybody
That used to be me. I don't wanna grow anymore, I'm afraid of the thought of dying. I'm 11, I'm young but still I don't wanna get old and die it's scary
so many vivid memories of when i was a very young child, my dad was in his 30's at that time, and soon i will be in my 30's.. Miss the good memories i had when i was a kid, i guess this is why i want a child of my own so maybe i can experience my childhood again through them
@@ssssSTopmotion no, he said to not use kids to relive his past. I believe it's more about having a kid for purely selfish reasons than playing with a child
@@chaoswraith I'm more or less functional but with pretty serious mental health issues from both parents' sides. I wish my parents thought about this a little before bringing me into the world. Everyday is a pain and I find it hard to even want to stay alive. Bringing a new child into the world is such a cringey thought. People could adopt if they really want to raise a child, right? It's not like we're living thousands of years back when we needed to have children to fight wars or whatever. People please think about what you're doing before having children please.
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’
Ya I know that feeling as I always thought people that died younger as in 30s or so was the lucky ones while people that lived to be 100 was more of a punishment lol
An older gentleman asked me how old I was, I told him I was 17 and he gave me a riddle to solve "what goes up but never comes down?". I didn't know the answer so he said "your age, enjoy it while you can". I'm 30 now, and this event still feels like it happened just yesterday.
Yeah, really scary I'm one of those guys now (mid 30s) Feels like yesterday when the old people (lets be honest, as teenager the 30+ people are like grandpas xD) told me the same xD
@@Jannfndnanakid it was supposed to be a joke…………no need to be so rude :) UPDATE: if ur confused why u cant find ethan’s comment is because he deleted it…….his comment said this “yeah cause youre a fckin idiot that doesnt understand and doesnt give an effort”
You can actually slow down your perception of time and enjoy yourself immensely at the same time. You just have to take some psychedelics and not wuss out and have a bad trip through negative thinking. I've never had any bad trips on psychedelics because I just roll with it, and because I don't make myself think it is gonna be scary and jinx myself.
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
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
When I was young, I imagined old people feeling as though they had been around forever. Turns out exactly the opposite is true. The older you get the shorter your time here seems. It's the young who feel like they have been here forever.
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@@capitão_paçoca 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.
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'm 28. 8 years ago, when I was 20, feels like it was literally JUST yesterday. But then if you asked 20 year old me to remember 8 years before that, when I was 12, I would definitely say that that felt like an eternity. It's so odd how fast time goes as you get older.
the way to really slow it down is to keep a daily journal, and record the day's events. When a year passes, look back to reflect over all that you did/had, and you'll see how long a year is. The more you forget, the faster time seems to go by.
I’m 20 and reading this lowkey made me really sad
@@jackson5116 I'm 26 and for me, I think the more I remember the faster time goes... because when I look back and have a thought or remember something I saw from years ago it seems like it seems like it was just yesterday. The only advice I would give someone is to see new things and learn new things as much as possible (2 things you do a lot of when you are younger). Because then you will focus more on the present and time will go slower. Time will never be able to go as slow as when you were younger because when you are young you have practically no memories. That's just life.
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@@peenhead9938 That's exactly it. When I was in my teens any events I remembered from my childhood seemed like an eternity ago since I didn't remember much between the events. But as you get older and remember more and more, even the mundane things, it really puts into perspective how fast time does go!
"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
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
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
Have you ever driven to a place you've never driven to before? Your first time going there it seems to take a while. But then you go back a second time and the drive seems much shorter, even though it's the same distance. Maybe this is a similar thing that happens as we age. We become more familiar with the flow of the day, seasons, year, and moving through time in general. When we're younger we're still learning so much about everything around us and in life. There are less unknowns as we become older. Much like when you become familiar with a traveling route.
You're on to something
I sort of disagree… maybe this isn’t a universal thing you’re speaking of. I find that the first handful of times I go somewhere it’s quick… then overtime it takes longer as you get used to the things you see and become bored. Don’t assume that’s a shared experience, cause I don’t think it is. I feel like the same is for this video. I don’t agree time is moving quicker as I age and I’ve asked some of my elders and they disagreed as well. It’s more so about stimulation of the mind. Anything takes longer when you’re fixated on the ends. And anything moves quicker when you are distracted from the ends.
I honestly feel the opposite. When I go somewhere new, I'm immersed in the new sites and the absorption of the route. It seems to just fly by, but if I repeat the trip it's not the same. The more often I do, the more routine and mundane the experience becomes. The longer it seems to drag on.
I 100% agree. It's like when you spend a weekend at home, it just flies by. But if you travel somewhere new, the weekend seems much longer. So I think the key here is to fill your days with new activities if you want them to last longer.
This!!!
You’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
I wanted to slow time, so I switched over to Internet Explorer.
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ابو ليث الخطيب Fail
Your patience level must have sky-rocketed!
Sikh Atheist 😂😂
Don’t you mean Netscape? 😂
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
When you graduate high school, that's the point when time starts to accelerate
Agreed
Yeah ... you get that job and you start paying BILLS & you end up in that repetitive and revolting door
@@tonykari5124 sounds fun...
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Facts
Exactly man Exactly!
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
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 :)
*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
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
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
Longest 5 seconds?
waiting to skip a youtube ad.
Check out the longest 5 seconds on TH-cam by the slow mo guys
they changed it to 6....
@@gregtheflyingwhale they did not th-cam.com/video/pudhhUEtnCI/w-d-xo.html
I was gonna say slo mo guys
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they changed it to 4 seconds
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
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.
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?
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
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’m 76 and my minute was 58 seconds. This time last year feels like it was years ago, but a lot has happened, a lot of novelty and little repetition. I also make a point of learning new things which are intellectually challenging, not just acquiring new knowledge but things which are a real struggle to master. It is very easy to get into a rut mentally and physically when you get older.
u inspire me sir
Wow you're 76? You must have a lot of life-experience
That is awesome mister Glen Net. I hope I'll be able to live such a full life myself as well.
I'm 50 and I stopped my minute after 51 seconds. I also don't feel that time is speeding up with age. Although, I believe when I was very young time felt a bit slower simply because I wasn't aware that my life is limited.
Stay healthy hope u live a while
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-FishInMyBreakfast 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
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.
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
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😂
My teenage years felt like an entire era. Now (I'm in my 50s), ten years ago feels like a blink of an eye.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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 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
@@Huntski36 it was an example?
@@amfizzian life, speeding up, as you age
@@Huntski36 (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 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.
This is so true, when I moved from 3rd to 4th Grade, the summer break didn't feel like a few months, *it felt like a FEW YEARS.*
This 5th grade to 6th grade summer break is flying by so fast
If you live to be 80, you reached temporal middle age at 27.
People who seek novelty can stretch their middle age beyond 27. Vacations, learning new languages/instruments, new cultures, new hobbies/arts, etc, these are enriching moments that force the mind to take a deeper impression thus also slowing down the perception of time. Learning new tasks forces the mind to be engaged, the more thoughts/neuron pulses per moment of time, the longer time is stretched.
Time after time
Yup my college years have gone by so slowly looking back because of how many experiences I’ve had and how much change I’ve endured. A week feels much longer than it did in middle school or high school even though I still feel old (I’m only 20)
What's temporal middle age?
What do you mean by “temporal middle age”?
26.66 is 1/3 of 80. 2/3 is 53.33. 50% would be 40, which is middle age. Age 20 means you’ve reached 25% of the average lifespan, meaning a quarter of your life on average is over. Scary when you actually think about it…
@@Nighhhts unless you are immortal like me, learned it from Fry
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
"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.
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
😂😭😭
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
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.
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.
I haven’t even started watching but first thing that comes to mind is that when we’re kids up until 21, everything feels like it’s evolving and we’re set on a path for growth and development both physically and mentally. But as we get into our 20s and later, it’s really all up to us individually to keep progressing and I think a lot of us fall short, years pass by, and we feel like we haven’t grown or accomplish much. You periodically stop to reflect and realize “wow, not much has really changed”. That’s how I feel at least
As a child you do a lof of stuff you don't want to. A lot of sitting, waiting for the clock, doing what grown-ups tell you to. After that life is coming at you non-stop until you die.
Well said
YES
such a great objections
There was a quote in the Matilda movie about Matilda learning as a child what most people don’t learn until their early 30s, how to take care of themselves. I never understood it until I’m almost 30 now.
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
That rat experiment is so disturbing
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 heard that the reason time flies when you get older is because you experience fewer new things. Life becomes a routine and most days are not memorable. So when old people try to go back in time to find memories, they feel like the last months didn't even excist. Just like we all feel that the year 2020 doesn't exist in our memories because we didn't experience much memorable during lockdown. That makes 2019 feel like one year ago and time went fast forward.
That makes a lot of sense
Yeah. My 2020 exists but only partially.
I remember only few times, like the days in Florence when I met my GF and gosh those were only 3 days though seem like entire weeks, unlike the period from March to July that were 4 to 5 months of nothing feel like well nothing, I passed those months at home, watching TV, playing on my phone and sleeping, it's really nothing, I also remember my time in Naples, 7 days and again feels like much longer, that's my 2020 for ya.
It feels like we never lived it, 2019 and then 2021, just lived some weeks in 2020, doesn't matter how hard I try I can't really focus on nothing from 2020, I can't really catch anything important to attach myself to.
And that also might explain why those 3 days in Florence are so important to me, like I can't even begin to explain why I felt so good, I never felt that good again even with my GF in the past 18 months.
Agreed.
This. When we are young, we remember each and every experience because it was new. Our brain remembers the "first" encounter of each thing. But when we age, we experiences things that we've already done time and time again. Our brain don't remember those.
That is what i have always told to myself and to people around. And that is why I will always try to find new things to experience. I am right now soon to become 21 years old, but I have been a sound technician, builder, cook, an actor, an improv actor, been to 4 different schools (if we do not consider online courses) and right now I am learning IT. I train my brain everyday as much as I can and try to give it as much variety as I can. Also as I have in the past felt a burnout, I know to keep an eye on my free time so that I could also from time to time think of my past and see if I am happy about it.
Does that mean that a potentially reliable way to keep feeling young and having time move slow as It used to Is to constantly find new novel things, to keep learning, and wondering, and exploring. And perhaps to learn to never stop appreciating the new and novel? Seems like a good deal I think.
No, that's called having ADHD.
you'll also age faster maybe?
No that's just ADHD. I have it and do that all the time. It's why I have many hobbies. Always made time go by faster to me
@@yoshatabi it’s not inherently ADHD lol what
@@kilaa3417 no but that's what ADHD is like?
5:31 you can also take this as: you can speed up time by using distractions. Meaning that being on your phone watching instagram or tiktok speeds up your time perception. So that way you have more control over how long you want something to last.
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
The novelty really resonated with me. I'm 24 going to be 25 this September. Life just feels like a blur except a few novelty memories I have that are insane. The pandemic years recently seemed to literally be the fastest years of my life. I at one point caught myself saying I was 22 and realizing, "wow, I'm almost 25... What am I thinking?" I never really thought much about my age until now I am still young but it seems like it is going so fast and this year I will have my first kid and I will be done with college. These events have literally seem to appear from thin air like my marriage it all seems to have happened so quickly it seems unbelievable. My wife and I have known each other 5yrs and I very distinctly remember the day we met and everything we did that day and most of our conversations. Sometimes I am awake at night and think just how quickly one day I'll be old and soon dead. Once you realize this speed of time it really makes you reconsider what you should invest your time in because it's just so short.
no cap it feels like 2020 was just a couple months ago
Time goes really fast when you have nothing new to do. Thats what I have gathered. The more new things you do,the slower time goes.
When the brain has something new to look/think/experience, it spends and uses more energy.
I hope this helps.
If you really think it’s that short then you have a very weak memory, sorry to say
time is long looking forward and sometimes short looking back depending on how many new things you experience
@@dannyh5039 I agree when we think of things unknown and uncertain we thing of how it'll be a long time to get somewhere. Yet looking back so many things seem so close to now. Very well said.
When you're 17 you can't wait to turn 21 etc etc but now I'm 48 and these "milestones" comes at you with the speed of light. I think its only ones perception that time goes faster
I graduated high school in 2018. Since then a year has gone by and it felt like it was the fastest year of my life. It's Crazy.
Im 17 and cant wish more to be a kid again
its not perception. It really is speeding up. literally someone or something, pressed fast forward
Echo X Watch out, the next few years will go by in a flash, it’s been 6 years since I graduated and it feels like it just happened.
@@commmentz522 I wish I was 17 again.
Life sucks if you really think about it. Most of us have to work hard to enjoy life and working 5 days a week always feels like a lifetime but enjoying the fruits of labor during weekends always feels like a minute. IT'S MONDAY AGAIN! 😂
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.
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
One of the best examples I can give of time slowing due to fear is a crash, I was in a motorcycle crash and it felt like I was sliding for hours, I saw all the dust flying up, I saw the cracks forming in my mirror, I felt my collarbone slowly break, the fabric of my shirt tearing along with my skin, it was such a surreal experience where all of my senses were heightened that made something that lasted only 5 seconds at the most feel like hours flew by
Oh so that's why some action movies have that effect, I just watched black widow and there's was like a slow motion car explosion, anyway I hope recovery is going/went well
Hope you're good now!
@@crazygunner567yt2 nah it's just to make it look more spectacular lol
I know exactly what you mean. You would think that while you are in that matrix, you would have made better decisions pertaining to self-preservation.
Nope
It's all bollixed
I’m sorry to hear that, but the decrease the speed of time you’re witnessing is indeed something that can happen with a high amount of adrenaline
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.
“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
*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?
The whole scared thing as a gamer has never been so relatable. When I’m playing action FPS games time flies. As soon as I ever played a horror game I tell myself it’s only been 45 minutes?
When you record an intense play that seemed like it took 30 seconds but it took 5 seconds. I feel like it has more to do with the amount of information you are taking in in such a small timeframe more than what he said
Never played fps games really but when I’m fighting against people in Minecraft Bedwars if there’s multiple of them everything just seems to happen in like 10 seconds even if it’s actually a minute
you are engaging in worthless activity
@@billmoyer3254 How so? I’ve never heard anyone claim before that entertainment is worthless, the entire goal of living is to try and have a nice life and if you can do that through gaming then by all means do so.
@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 I wouldn't say worthless but if you were just to play games compared to building a shed I'm pretty sure you'd feel more fulfilment from building the shed. That's after you've finished though.
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.
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?
Flow for me happens when watching TH-cam. 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
how to feel like life is longer: go around the world, watch different tv channels, go to different places, change up how you live your life each day.
Have a intense life
I can do all of this in my room yes? ay then im somewhat an immortal myself, all with minimal effort
Or do a plank
@@pepperpoop7729 did you not listen to the video? That was one of the exact reasons mentioned that makes life appear *shorter.*
yeah but u have to be rich first
Since 2020 everything seems happening in a very very fast way.
Facts
*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.
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.
Very true I'm 16 and these 4 years of covid felt so fast. I so vividly remember 1st Jan midnight 2022 and now its September 2024. It surely passes damn fast!
That “by age 6” theory makes sense as the critical development stage for people is said to be 2-6 years of age.
It would make more sense when in relation to the impact of certain events, but I don't know if it makes sense when in relation to time perception.
Helo i sold my wif for inter net to watc video onlin an i no understa nd what "critcical" meens pleas ecsplayn
i don't remember anything from age 6.
@@livethefuture2492 You'll remember when you're 41.
No that's accounted for by neuroplasticity
Specifically, the reason is myelin. Myelin is the insulation on the axon or connection between neurons. Our body produces less and less myelin the older we get, we need lots of myelin as young kids because we desperately need to adapt to the world around us. “Struggling” is what causes cells in your brain called oligodendrocytes to insulate your neural connections with myelin. Layers of myelin affects how fast/strong/precisely neurons fire. This is also why learning things at a young age is better, and why it gets harder to learn skills as you get older.
Americans have many deficiencies. B-12 is required for myelin. You also cannot have a well functioning brain if you don't have good magnesium or zinc in your diet. Which also causes low libido.
Myelin od when
How exactly does this correlate with the 'feeling' that life moves faster as we get older? Is the implication that because we are moving slower, or because our axons are becoming less insulated make the world around us seem faster?
I said in a comment I just made a few minutes ago:
"I haven't watched the video but it goes something like this if I had to guess:
5 multiplied by 2 is 10. Doubling 5 is simply 10. A 5 year old would experience 100% more of life in just 5 years, when he or she becomes 10.
20 multiplied by 2 is 40. Doubling 20 is obviously 40. So, a 20 year old would have to experience 20 more years of life just to experience that same 100% more life that a 5 year old (moving to 10) would feel.
This continues, for a 40 year old, they would have to become 80 years old to experience the same percentage of life as the previous examples."
Can u take myelin supplements
@@mjgmusic2619 sort of, not directly I think, but certain foods like lions mane mushroom have been known to have neurogenic properties, and increase myelin production
One of the great myths of life is that childhood passes quickly. In fact, because time moves more slowly in Kid World--five times more slowly in a classroom on a hot afternoon, eight times more slowly on any car journey of more than five miles (rising to eighty-six times more slowly when driving across Nebraska or Pennsylvania lengthwise), and so slowly during the last week before birthdays, Christmases, and summer vacations as to be functionally immeasurable--it goes on for decades when measured in adult terms. It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
(Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid)
East-West across Tennessee or Texas, or North-South in California or Florida are the worst car-eternities I have endured =(
I think the saying that childhood passes quickly is from the perspective of parents and other adults who are watching the kid grow up. Especially if you're a grandparent or other relative who doesn't see them every day! It feels like you're holding this tiny baby one day and the next they're as tall as you and wanting to go on a date. That's why it's so important to do memorable activities together, so it's not all just a blur of everyday routine.
@@rfresa "They grow so fast".
Nope, childhood moves too fast, at least in my experience. I wish I could have it back. 😪 adulthood sucks man
@@videogames2339 lol for real, I don't wanna work I wanna be in school playing hangman!
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.
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.
Another angle that always throws me through a loop, is that we live in the present, no exceptions. There is no past or future that we ever get to live in, just the now. So while that time I broke my ankle in high school was much longer ago than what I had for dinner last night, the two events feel equidistant in terms of time, as neither takes any longer to recall than the other.
Because your memories happen in the now too
You don't have time tags?! All my memories have time tags, and there's even different coloured tags for real life and dreams. I thought everyone had time tags...
@@dahyimi2185 people are different =))
well u can think as a timeline, left is past middle is now and right is future, and play it. u will realize theres no present it just goes left to right forever which is only past to future but it goes even deep, what will happen if u stop this? or what will u call it past or future? thats the Present :)
Im happy i found this comment
“Life moves pretty fast...if u don’t stop to look around once in a while...u could miss it...”
GORILLA ROB
Thanks Ferris!
Great movie!!
OHHHH BOW BOW
Well yeah I stay in my room alot and don't really go out.....could that be the case..?😬
Excellent comment!!
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.
I’ve been having a life crisis over this exact concept for the last two years now. Every morning when I wake up I feel like if I blink, it’ll be night time. It’s actually become so terrifying for me because it feels like my life is getting away from me and I don’t know what to do about it. Nothing I do - even if it is literally nothing or just simply waiting for something - seems to slow things down. I’ve come close to having a panic attack over this and it’s scary.
I get it . In the blink of an eye. I wake up usually in a great deal of physical and mental pain. I have 2 furry companions that I need to care for. That keeps me focused on the now. I’d rather lie in bed and let my life just slip away. Hard to do when someone needs a walk and I have a cat box to clean. Trust me, I’m horribly depressed for many reasons, but if you find something to focus on you will forget about being terrified. It doesn’t matter what needs to be done. Water a plant, volunteer at an animal shelter. Pick up that book you started. Or a movie you didn’t finish. Shop online, or better yet, window shop online. Anything so your terrified thoughts are gone because you’re to busy to entertain them.
@@taylorrice8612 yes, exactly. I’ve found interesting things to study and explore to keep me engrossed in this world, shuts down that endless broken record in my head that wants to replay painful events and times people hurt me. I’m too busy studying Catherine the Great or the Tizer Dolmans in Montana, discovering that America has larger, more extensive megaliths than what we see at Stonehenge in England, but so few people even know this. So, boom, I’m not stuck in my head, I’m pursuing knowledge and it’s very healing. Hope this helps someone, I had to learn the hard way that my mind, left to it’s own devices, needs to be redirected to something more healthy. At 62, I’m doing a better job of taking control and taking responsibility for improving my head, and therefore, my life.
gaming is good to engage and can't think about other things cause your focused on story or to win helped me through rough childhood with yelling and verbal abuse was always my escape and there is games from anybody
Depression and disassociation can make you feel this way too.
Sounds like OCD. I have the same issue with fear of eternity and that’s what my therapist says it is
This 7min 40sec video went by pretty fast.
Yes.
0:00 7:40
It went by slowww
Not for me. Im 60.
you need to pay more attention
Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small time span.
+The Hoax Hotel read with G-man's voice before I even noticed it was a half life reference o.O
oh man, this got me thinking about HL3 again. just got rid of it by intensive therapy
+The Hoax Hotel Half life 3 confirmed
+The Hoax Hotel Ayy, both of you guys uploaded a video at the same time and I'm about to watch yours next :)
+sklodowska226 When oh when will we get HL3! It is taking for ever.
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
When your young you anticipate the future
When your old you long for the past
So true
Long for the past, whence time crawled to the future..
Not sure I follow that logic. ;)
That used to be me. I don't wanna grow anymore, I'm afraid of the thought of dying. I'm 11, I'm young but still I don't wanna get old and die it's scary
Not true.
you're
so many vivid memories of when i was a very young child, my dad was in his 30's at that time, and soon i will be in my 30's..
Miss the good memories i had when i was a kid, i guess this is why i want a child of my own so maybe i can experience my childhood again through them
Good story. How old are you?
@@insaneprofessorxzone2420 29
@@chaoswraith did u just order a random dude on the internet to not play with his kids?
@@ssssSTopmotion no, he said to not use kids to relive his past. I believe it's more about having a kid for purely selfish reasons than playing with a child
@@chaoswraith I'm more or less functional but with pretty serious mental health issues from both parents' sides. I wish my parents thought about this a little before bringing me into the world. Everyday is a pain and I find it hard to even want to stay alive. Bringing a new child into the world is such a cringey thought. People could adopt if they really want to raise a child, right? It's not like we're living thousands of years back when we needed to have children to fight wars or whatever. People please think about what you're doing before having children please.
"scare yourself, take up extreme sports, get into accidents, and intersperse all of that with periods of boredom" just about sums up my existence.
For some reason I read this with Thanos’ voice
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’
Life already feels like it's flying by, and I'm only 15. In fact, one of my worse fears is being older.
@Suzi Williamson In what?
Ya I know that feeling as I always thought people that died younger as in 30s or so was the lucky ones while people that lived to be 100 was more of a punishment lol
@@ralphlaguna5433 but thats what makes time go by slower :^)
@Suzi Williamson most boomer thing i ever heard
@@ferguson8143 no tf
An older gentleman asked me how old I was, I told him I was 17 and he gave me a riddle to solve "what goes up but never comes down?". I didn't know the answer so he said "your age, enjoy it while you can". I'm 30 now, and this event still feels like it happened just yesterday.
Yeah, really scary I'm one of those guys now (mid 30s)
Feels like yesterday when the old people (lets be honest, as teenager the 30+ people are like grandpas xD) told me the same xD
Oh thats the reason why math class seems to last forever
Guess it is called boredom
@@Jannfndnanakid Is everything okay, Ethan?
@@Jannfndnanakid it was supposed to be a joke…………no need to be so rude :)
UPDATE: if ur confused why u cant find ethan’s comment is because he deleted it…….his comment said this “yeah cause youre a fckin idiot that doesnt understand and doesnt give an effort”
@@Jannfndnanakid lmao, do you need some medical help
What @@Jannfndnanakid was trying to say is you shouldn't be on this channel if you don't like maths
You can actually slow down your perception of time and enjoy yourself immensely at the same time. You just have to take some psychedelics and not wuss out and have a bad trip through negative thinking. I've never had any bad trips on psychedelics because I just roll with it, and because I don't make myself think it is gonna be scary and jinx myself.