Why Time Goes Faster as You Get Older

Why does time seem to move faster as you get older? A summer that once felt endless can now disappear in what feels like a few weeks. Childhood afternoons seemed to last forever. Now entire years can vanish before you realize how quickly they passed. But the clock hasn't changed. Your brain has. In this episode, we explore the strange science behind our perception of time — from a three-minute experiment comparing young and older adults to David Eagleman's terrifying free-fall experiment, and from childhood novelty to memory, routine, dopamine, and the aging brain. Why did childhood feel so long? Why can a familiar week disappear almost instantly in retrospect? Why does fear sometimes make a few seconds feel like minutes? And is there actually a biological reason that time seems to accelerate as we age? The deeper we look, the stranger the answer becomes. There is no single clock inside your brain. Instead, your experience of time emerges from perception, memory, attention, prediction, and biological processes that change throughout your life. The physical clock keeps ticking at exactly the same speed. So why does your life feel like it's speeding up? Maybe time isn't changing. Maybe the way you experience it is. #TimePerception #Neuroscience #Psychology