is time speeding up?

It's down to new experiences and novelty. Once you get into a working life routine your brain just switches off. When you are young there are so many new highlights and experiences happening all the time you really take notice of the detail.
 
Tephnos said:
Sounds like an excuse for people with boring mundane lives to not get up and do different things to 'slow down' this apparent progress of time.
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I gig in 3 different bands, I cycle every day, go running 3 times a week, go out for 2 meals a week and go and watch local bands at least once a week so I am far from a mundane life.
At 58 time is still going faster every year.
 
teddy3578 said:
Well time speeds up relatively as you get older. A year for a 5 year old is 20% of his life and a year for a 40 year old is 2.5% of his life ( Don't know how old the OP is )
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Well I never thought I'd see the day when someone on OCUK GD actually understands that concept. It's hard for most to grasp, but I remember reading about it years ago. Obviously time itself isn't speeding up, but a persons perception does change as they get older.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-does-time-fly-as-we-get-older/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...eem-to-speed-up-as-we-get-older-10414396.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception
 
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Kosmiche said:
This year has gone in a flash. Is it just getting older?

Things that I did a year ago feels like I did them last week.
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Every passing year, day and second is a smaller and smaller percentage of the time you've been alive.

So proportionally yes time is going faster for you
 
Tefal said:
Every passing year, day and second is a smaller and smaller percentage of the time you've been alive.

So proportionally yes time is going faster for you
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But you don't know that percentage at a given point till you die because the absolute value can't be determined. So the overall calculation is a distribution equally over the time period once the end point has been determined.
 
I've also thought that perception of time is related to how long you've been around, but I'm sure that the amount of change going on in your life is a factor too...

Feek said:
Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.
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howiepoohs said:
There's a page for people like you in the Reader's Digest.
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I don't suppose either of you have got a packet of toothpicks?
 
Perhaps stop bundling all of your experiences, events and everything else you do in life into a single thought? If I just think of the past four years, where I've started and finished uni, it feels almost as if it went by in the blink of an eye. However if I break up that 4 years into chunks and really think about everything I've done I come to realise it actually went rather painfully slow at times and that four years really isn't short at all.
 
The older you get the faster it seems to go.

The worst things for having time fly by, having kids.

My daughter starts school in Sept...where has the time gone :o
 
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