Why Does Time Feel Faster As You Get Older?

Why does a summer feel endless when you're seven, and a whole year vanish when you're forty? The clock hasn't changed. A second is still a second. So what has? In this video we look at why time seems to speed up as we age, and it turns out the answer has less to do with getting older and more to do with how your brain records what happens to you. What you'll learn: → Why the "one year is a smaller slice of your life" idea only explains part of it → How your brain builds its sense of time from the memories it keeps → What the lockdown years showed about time, memory and "temporal landmarks" → The tower-fall experiment that showed time doesn't really slow down in a crisis → The holiday paradox: why a boring week and a great holiday feel so different later → How autopilot and phone scrolling delete whole hours from memory → Four simple ways to make your years feel longer Sources & further reading: Janet, P. — the proportional theory of time perception, 1870s James, W. (1890) — The Principles of Psychology, chapter on the perception of time Stetson, C., Fiesta, M. P. & Eagleman, D. M. (2007) — "Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event?", PLoS ONE Hammond, C. (2012) — Time Warped, on the holiday paradox and time perception Bejan, A. (2019) — "Why the days seem shorter as we get older", European Review Ogden, R. S. (2020) — "The passing of time during the UK Covid-19 lockdown", PLoS ONE Rubin, D. C., Wetzler, S. E. & Nebes, R. D. (1986) — autobiographical memory across the lifespan (the reminiscence bump) International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service — length-of-day records, including July 2022 For business inquiries: [khansewy@gmail.com] #timeperception #covid #psychology #whydoestimefeelfaster #memory #brain #science #explained #educational #ageing #mindset why does time feel faster, why does time go faster as you get older, is time speeding up, time perception psychology, holiday paradox, reminiscence bump, how to slow down time