Why does time pass faster as we age...

[Blansky]

and as it passes faster and faster why do we keep buying instruments (watches) to measure it.

After age 30 we should throw them away instead of watching our lives rapidly slipping away.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/p...ter-as-you-age

And what happens to time when we are improvising...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/w...re-improvising

While playing hockey all those years, which is a highly creative and improvisational activity, time could sometimes go into slow motion and/or standstill.

It is said greats like Gretzky and other exceptional athletes, he was playing in a game that was slowed down for him and the lanes and patterns were easy and obvious, where someone else less talented, his time and space was far more precarious.

[Letsgodiving]

Didn't read the articles but when you are 10 years old 1 year is 10% of your life, when you are 50 years old a year is 2% of your life so it gives the illusion that time passes faster as you age because your perspective of the passage of time has changed due to the relative time/age ratio imo.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Letsgodiving

Didn't read the articles but when you are 10 years old 1 year is 10% of your life, when you are 50 years old a year is 2% of your life so it gives the illusion that time passes faster as you age because your perspective of the passage of time has changed due to the relative time/age ratio imo.

That sounds logical to me.


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[brandrea]

I haven’t really thought much about it to be honest.

What I do know is that the older I get, the more careful I am about who I spend my time with and how I spend my time

[enjoythemusic]

Fewer frames per second.

[Krash]

I have to be honest here…Since I retired, I’m not so sure time feels like it’s moving faster. I think it actually feels like it’s moving slower now.

When I was working, and had oversight to massive, large-scale, $50 million projects with aggressive timelines, it always felt as if time was moving at warp speed. And there was never enough time in the day to get the work done.


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[Dan Pierce]

Retirement should come w/ seatbelts cause every day leaves skid marks.
dP

[77T]

I like bending time.


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[Tri-Tip]

My assumption for time seeming to speed up as we age is that there are less things to look forward to. When we were in elementary school, it seemed like forever to get to summer break because it was something huge to look forward to.

To me, time does seem to slow down a bit when there is something exciting to look forward too, such as a watch on order, a big vacation, etc.

[MrGoat]

I feel time moves faster the older we get because we know what to look forward to through the life experience we have had.

Also, because of our life experience, the little things we looked forward to in our younger years are not even milestones in our existences today.

I always felt like the more I wanted something the longer it took to come. I wonder if the same applies for old age?


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[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by 77T

I like bending time.

Bravo! Well played Paul

Am more an air kinda guy. ;-)

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As far as time slowing, while racing SCCA F2k, time was perceived to be at ~15% of actual speed. A very interesting, and desired, situation.
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[996marty]

We just need to enjoy life just that little bit more in the knowledge that time just goes so quick

[Maleg]

As an octogenarian, I can tell you looking back that life goes by fast.

I unretired for the third time this year and getting back to work part time has slowed things down again. Having a purpose, a schedule, and deadlines modulates my internal clock, which provides perspective that cannot be achieved on the internet or the golf course every day (though I tried pretty hard to get golf to do it).

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by 77T

I like bending time.


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'Bending Time'?......What time, do you do that Paul?

Pix, or it didn't happen!

[77T]

No problem
I bend time when we have to neutralize a race. I can stop the clock so the drivers get more laps within the original scheduled time limit.

Powerful stuff, bending time


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[0nly5iv3Digits]

It doesn't. Perception is everything.

[Barbara_C]

As one guy says at our old folks home time is the one commodity you can put a price on....30 years now looking back seems like a few months ago, 30 years looking back at age 40 was an eternity. Time does seem to speed up as we age.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by 0nly5iv3Digits

It doesn't. Perception is everything.

Yep. It doesn’t matter if you’re 7 or 70, a cesium-133 atom oscillates at the same rate.

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[xjeeunitx]

Something about our brains processing time differently due to storage.

[Brenngun]

I keep buying them because I'm looking for the one that will finally tell me how much time I have left.

[enjoythemusic]

^^^. it's online now

https://www.medindia.net/patients/ca...eath_clock.asp

[77T]

It ain't the years, it's the mileage...
...Indy had it right.


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[padi56]

Originally Posted by Blansky

and as it passes faster and faster why do we keep buying instruments (watches) to measure it.

After age 30 we should throw them away instead of watching our lives rapidly slipping away.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/p...ter-as-you-age

And what happens to time when we are improvising...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/w...re-improvising

While playing hockey all those years, which is a highly creative and improvisational activity, time could sometimes go into slow motion and/or standstill.

It is said greats like Gretzky and other exceptional athletes, he was playing in a game that was slowed down for him and the lanes and patterns were easy and obvious, where someone else less talented, his time and space was far more precarious.

The most precious thing we have is life and time to enjoy life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.But for me at the moment regarding time, is that everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[1William]

Time nether moves faster or slower. It is how we perceive it.

[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by 77T

It ain't the years, it's the mileage...
...Indy had it right.

#truth