Does the brain assimulate routines with time "flyling by"? After all, we tend to get more "routined" as we get older, and maybe the brain associates that with time "flying by"
2007-11-04 13:40:15 · 5 answers · asked by ahyatt21 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
This is my educated guess I have no other source, but I am guessing it has something to do with fractions.
Each year in your life that passes become a fration less significant than the years before. When you were 3 each year was on third of your life. now that you are 23 each year is ....well you get the picture. Can you imagine how fast the days will fly at 100 years old?
2007-11-04 13:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by Sasi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just a matter of relativity. We perceive the passage of time relative to how much time we've lived through. What I mean is, when you are 5 years old a year seems like a LOOOOOOOONG time because your whole life has only been 5 years. So 1 year to a 5 year old is a fifth of a lifetime. When you are 20, one year is only one twentieth of a lifetime. So naturally, it seems a lot less significant and goes by much quicker. As you get older and older and have lived a long amount of time, each increment of time seems less significant and less long. Most people in their 70's claim that years just fly by. It's all relative to how long you've lived.
I'm 26 and I feel, like you claim, that time is flying by. It kind of worries me because I'm afraid that I'll go from my 20's to my 40's in no time. And if time goes by this fast when I'm only in my 20's... how fast is it going to go when I'm older? It's crazy. But on the plus side, you can use those worries as motivation to make the most of the time you have. Get things done and be productive.
2007-11-04 13:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by egn18s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time flies by when we are busy or having a good time and it is slow as molasses when we are doing something boring or that we don't like. That's the long and the short of it.
2007-11-04 13:46:00 · answer #3 · answered by cavassi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Relativity. Its a concept of Albert Einstein's.
Sorry to do this to you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
I hope it helps.
2007-11-04 13:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No honey, days and weeks and years are shorter than we remember them being when we were little kids.
Whether you fill your days or fritter them away, time speeds by.
C. :)!!
2007-11-04 13:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Charlie Kicksass 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋