Why Does Time Speed Up As You Get Older?

When you were eight, summer lasted forever. Now whole years go missing between birthdays. Why does time speed up as you get older, and can you slow it down? Doodle goes looking for the missing time: the 1877 "slice of life" idea, the survey that found a week feels the same at any age, the two clocks in your head, the holiday paradox, why childhood is full of firsts, and why routine years leave almost nothing behind. 00:00 The summer that lasted forever 00:28 The ratio idea (1877) 01:55 Two clocks and the holiday paradox 03:12 Why childhood feels so long 04:13 The copy-paste years 05:10 How to slow it down 06:02 The answer Sources: • Janet, P. (1877). "Une illusion d'optique interne." Revue philosophique 3, 497–502 • Wittmann, M. & Lehnhoff, S. (2005). "Age effects in perception of time." Psychological Reports 97, 921–935 • Ornstein, R. E. (1969). On the Experience of Time. Penguin • Hammond, C. (2012). Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception. Canongate • Rubin, D. C., Wetzler, S. E. & Nebes, R. D. (1986); Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997). Psychology and Aging 12, 524–535 (the reminiscence bump) • Linton, M. (1982). "Transformations of memory in everyday life." In U. Neisser (Ed.), Memory Observed Drawings generated with AI (nano-banana) from our own character design; narration voice made with AI (ElevenLabs via fal); script, edit, music and sound are ours.