Can't be because of age. Maybe it has something to do with technology. We are sidetracked more so nowadays. I remember years ago time going by much slower. Years feel like months and months feel like days.

Ummm. It's because when you're younger you don't have enough to occupy your day... now that you're older and have responsibilities.. your day is full.. basically you are busy no time to watch time.. tick tock...

Weed is harmful

That's one way to put it.

Here's my simpler admonition:

If you want time to seem to pass more slowly, watch out for all the moments where you have placed yourself on "autopilot." Stuff such as driving to and from work, grocery shopping, doing laundry, your job itself.

Any time that you are thinking of something else while doing another, is time you lose to your perceptions.

In a 24 hour day, you already lose the time you are asleep. About a third of the day, for most people. Take out travel to and from work, that's usually another four hours gone. Chores you do by rote, another batch gone. Meals take another three or so.

If you aren't intensely involved while you are at work (or in class, if you are still in school), then the only time you ARE truly aware of, are the few moments you spend doing exactly what you want, when you want to do it.


But no it's not technology, except in that technology has offered us more things to think about other than what we are actually doing, so there's that.

I think it is the Internet.
We now live in an instant-gratification world.
Everything is at our fingertips.
All knowledge, there to be had.

It can be ever so much more interesting than
live people.

And its portable..dagnabbit.

hahahahahahaha
Were you too cheap to put out a hardcover? :-)

Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception
https://www.google.com/search?q=brains+perception+of+time&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=time+perception+speeds+up+with+age


That's normal for the human experience.

.. you put yourself on autopilot when driving to work..?..
Sounds like a good way to end time..lol.. hands at 2 and 10 o'clock Mr eyes forward ..sharp and alert...lol

Yes. I hate this generation. I have no beef with the Internet. But all these mobile devices. I'm switching to tracphone.

No drug enters my system not even caffeine. I only drink water and have a healthy balance of Carbs, fats, and proteins. I eat my 6 meals at the the same time every day. I have been eating the same thing everyday at the same time for 6 years. Not at the same place though. I'm and invincible machine the universe and fitness is very important to me I feel like a warrior but at the end of the day I'm flesh and bones also my days are numbered.

It's because time is subjective, meaning the flow of time is determined by the observer. It's like the old saying "a watched pot never boils" and "time flies when your having fun". You have to think about it kind of like Schrodinger's cat and that as long as the moment is being observed it seems to stretch on for a long time but if you don't focus on it passes by so fast.

Another reason why time seems to pass faster the older you get is because your reference also changes. Comparing the way a young person refers to time to how a much older person does is like comparing a 12 inch ruler to a yard stick. Even though the standers measurement of the passing of time is the same the older person views a day as a smaller increment of time when compared to the over all span of their life that has been spent.

It's called The Quickening. Everything is unravelling faster and faster.

True

Well said. I've read that online before. Makes sense I guess it's a matter of perspective.

Point ?

I agree with this all the way between work, overtime, house chores, life, the clock just spins.

I know, because I experienced time slowing down again a while back.

I was on the only real vacation I've ever been able to take. I designed it as a driving, traveling vacation, where I planned out both the destinations, AND the exact routes to reach them, based on what might be interesting to look at and learn about along the way.

Because almost every single moment I was awake, I was directly involved with where I was, what I was doing, and what I was thinking, that vacation felt like a half a year, even though it was only three weeks. Fabulous.

And afterwards, pondering it all, and noticing that time sped back up again, I realized that it was the direct involvement in each moment that was the key.

Nice

You want time to slow down? Go wait at Social Security Administration office

Lol