Why Time Feels Faster Every Year (And How to Slow It Down)

Why does time feel faster as you get older? It isn't speeding up. You're just remembering less. Here's the science, plus 5 fixes. Does last Christmas feel like last month, while one summer at age ten felt like a lifetime? This video explains why years seem to shrink as you age, what a 499-person study actually found, and five small experiments to make your next year feel longer. In this video: 0:00 Why does a year feel so short? 1:04 The popular answer: each year is a smaller slice of your life 1:39 The 499-person study that complicates it 2:32 Why looking back shrinks your years (novelty and the reminiscence bump) 4:09 5 ways to make time feel slower 6:59 The 30-day challenge 7:15 Next video: why boredom is slow now but fast later The 5 experiments: 1. Break the copy-paste week 2. Be a beginner 3. Fence off one thing 4. Catch it 5. Replay it Note: these fixes come from how memory works. No large study has proven they add a set amount to your sense of time, so treat them as experiments, not promises. YOUR CHALLENGE: pick ONE of the five, do it for 30 days, and tell me in the comments which number you chose. Subscribe to Ink Repenser for animated stickman explainers on deep, human and sometimes silly questions. Sources: Wittmann & Lehnhoff (2005), "Age effects in perception of time," Psychological Reports 97(3), 921-935. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.97.3.921-935 "Understanding the reminiscence bump: a systematic review," PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... #TimePerception #WhyTimeFlies #PsychologyExplained #InkRepenser