Time flies, perception of time as we age

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I was always told this would happen but its getting scary now, like the films where the spaceship hits hyperdrive or whatever.
So every day does get shorter in relation to your total lifespan but the days months years are flying past, my Nan used to start collecting xmas money in a tin in January and i always thought this was ridicules, the school summer holidays felt so amazingly long.
So how do you slow down time ? get really board ? get up really early to compensate ?
 
moon man said:
I was always told this would happen but its getting scary now, like the films where the spaceship hits hyperdrive or whatever.
So every day does get shorter in relation to your total lifespan but the days months years are flying past, my Nan used to start collecting xmas money in a tin in January and i always thought this was ridicules, the school summer holidays felt so amazingly long.
So how do you slow down time ? get really board ? get up really early to compensate ?
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I know what you mean, only way to slow down time is unfeasible at the minute. The only other way would be to keep yourself busy all day.
 
moon man said:
I was always told this would happen but its getting scary now, like the films where the spaceship hits hyperdrive or whatever.
So every day does get shorter in relation to your total lifespan but the days months years are flying past, my Nan used to start collecting xmas money in a tin in January and i always thought this was ridicules, the school summer holidays felt so amazingly long.
So how do you slow down time ? get really board ? get up really early to compensate ?
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First thing to do is stop wasting time posting to forums. :)
 
moon man said:
I was always told this would happen but its getting scary now, like the films where the spaceship hits hyperdrive or whatever.
So every day does get shorter in relation to your total lifespan but the days months years are flying past, my Nan used to start collecting xmas money in a tin in January and i always thought this was ridicules, the school summer holidays felt so amazingly long.
So how do you slow down time ? get really board ? get up really early to compensate ?
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Boredom is only for the moment.

Your perception of time is based on your memories of what has occurred.

To alter that perception, do many things, and novel things, and take it to the extreme.
 
As above novelty has a huge impact on perception of time, also having your affairs in order so to speak - if you are doing the same thing day after day and got a lot of outstanding stuff which you are putting off dealing with, etc. it tends to make the years roll into each other.
 
I have memories as a kid at school literally watching the clock minutes ticking down waiting for the bell to go. There was literally nothing to distract the mind.

These days life as constant distraction that people struggle to switch their brains off at night.
 
well i guess i cant be board as time is going so fast, when i did a tedious task at work and did clock watching that really slowed it down.
so if i go out now and do say base jumping instead of surfing i am guessing it would go even faster still
 
Its because when you are young everything is new and fresh and it has the effect of making time seem longer compared to when you are older.
 
time still moves slow, go for a 2 hour long walk and see how long it is.

a lot longer than 2 hours sitting on the pc or whatever
moon man said:
I was always told this would happen but its getting scary now, like the films where the spaceship hits hyperdrive or whatever.
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I've been listening to an Audio book series "expeditionary force which takes into account light speed.

It's kinda weird because it goes against I think every other scifi


like in star trek etc people fly to avoid weapons that are basically moving at the speed of light, but they aren't moving at the speed of light so how are they dodging? it's like trying to dodge the light from a light bulb...

in this book when a ship jumps in say 10 light years away that ship isn't visible until the light from that ship has travelled at light speed for 10 seconds, or if a ship jumps through a wormhole it's blind on the other side until the slow speed of light reaches it's sensors
A battle can be fought then that ship can jump number of light years away and basically watch the battle that already happened by examining the light from it.
 
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I think it's experience based.

Time can seemingly pass much more slowly, but in a different way to boredom, when you are in a high-stress situation. We've probably all experienced that in a dangerous situation- I know I have, when seconds stretch.

Time is weird. It's the final frontier.
 
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We've probably all experienced that in a dangerous situation- I know I have, when seconds stretch.
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I was in q car crash at fairly low speed when I was around 15 and time certainly stretched into slow motion as it happened.

I've always wondered what it must be like in a bad crash, like when a Rally car rolls over 10+ times in a row etc
 
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arknor said:
I was in q car crash at fairly low speed when I was around 15 and time certainly stretched into slow motion as it happened.

I've always wondered what it must be like in a bad crash, like when a Rally car rolls over 10+ times in a row etc
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Heh, exactly the same probably!

I can vividly remember a few points where time stretched. I don't know whether it was adrenalin dump or something else, but it's definitely a thing.

There's also the memory thing. Experience rich moments are probably remembered differently to those that aren't, and I'd guess that's linked to physicality and not, for example, a three hour game of TF2 sitting in a chair.

In my idle moments, I often wonder whether my cat and other animals perceive time entirely differently than me. Does a hawk, in the moment of the strike, work in our "normal" time?

Ironically, I clearly have far too much time on my hands today!
 
Last week I remember looking at the time at 1pm and looking back at it moments later and it was 3, at this rate, I can imagine in my 50s a year feeling like a month. I remember as a kid looking forward to days far in the future where we had an event planned and it taking ages for that day to arrive. Now I know that time will march forwards at a unstoppable pace.

How to slow down time though? Get away from technology and sail a ocean. Time will slow back down and days will feel long when travelling so slowly.
 
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