Why does it seem like time goes faster the older you get ?

Question

Is it cause your brain precives time diffrently? is it cause you get busy the older you get? or is cause the earth spins faster every year and time goes by faster?

Answer 1

I don't know why it does, but it sure does.
It even seems the week-ends come every other day.
I'm sure time goes by just like always, just doesn't seem
like it to us old folks.

Answer 2

Good question. I'm almost 53 and have asked that same question many times. I'm no MD or Super Genius but here's my take...

I think that the part of the brain you use for memory gets filled the older we get.

When your young there are not many memories. As you mature the available memory space gets to be less and less bring filled up with the adventure we call life. Hence being young with not many memories time appears to flow by slowly, same being when your older, with more and more memories time appears to speed by at break-neck speed. This may also explain why people say "their life flashed before their eyes" when they are in a life-threatening situation.

As I said above, this is by no means a scientific answer, but it works for me...

Answer 3

I love that song "Time"

I know one thing when in great pain...the greater the pain the slower that clock moves ..so slow you swear it was going backwards or broken, now aint that living for the moment?

also people that claim dejavu fall asleep a second wake up not realizing they fell asleep and claim "I remember this place...Ive been here before.

time goes quick when you having fun...time stands still if you thrown in jail.
your answer is "complacency" that to me is bad...when your life
becomes the same routine everyday ..well then you pass through time.

but!! think of time as resistance illusion of matter warping the space plane
with nothing in space there would no time. because there is something in space now we can judge time by the fastest of matter of particles in space that would be light.
weird we can look back and see things that happened in space
many years ago..
let us look at time in this way . imagine an apple falls from a tree and measure the time it takes to fall. for instance 0.3 seconds. now imagine it fell instantly 0.00000 seconds. impossible? yes but if it were all of space matter would never have appeared. for no record of nothing unless we had time.

time must be speeding up for the universe is expanding faster....to what? I don't know.

Answer 4

Not really its the same as when we were babies.
The time frame we belong to is that of the solar system and time is measured relative to it. It does vary but very slowly that as far as we are concerned the Variation is negligle during our life time.
The theory of time dilation is basicaly an ilusion of perspective and it Changes depending on what frame of reference you are observing a phenomena.
There is consevation of mass and energy in the Universe and its bound into a contaiment at constant power. Hence there must also exist a conservation of time.That means in the Universe time is a constant.

Answer 5

Time does not really go any faster as one ages. But, because of the years gone by, when one recollects a certain experience, it seems as if it were so long ago! That is what makes us think that time flies the older we get.
Good luck and may God bless you.

Answer 6

My theory is that it is because our awareness of time itself is directly affected by how much of it we have had. When young, one does not (perhaps cannot) even ponder these things; as we are either too busy to notice and/or don't care!
As we become increasingly aware of time, it is only natural for it to "seem" faster, just like our stomachs "seem" fuller after we eat!

Answer 7

I think when youre younger you are still discovering many things, life seemed to go by slowly because you were still becoming aware of so many things. Don't get me wrong, we never stop learning, but we get used to the regular things as we age. at least, thats what I think.

Answer 8

Time is relative, or so said Einstein.

Time passing is based on how we perceive the events around us. So ultimately it's all up to the human mind.

Answer 9

It's because as you get older, one year is a smaller proportion of your entire life than it was when you were younger. When you're five, a year is 20% of your entire life. When you're 20, a year is only 5% of your entire life.

Answer 10

Because you (we) are nearing the end of the line.