Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up With Age?
We can alter our perceptions by keeping our brain active, continually learning skills and ideas, and exploring new places.
scientificamerican.com • Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up With Age?
Our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period. In other words, the more new memories we build on a weekend getaway, the longer that trip will seem in hindsight.
This phenomenon, which Hammond has dubbed the holiday parado... See more
This phenomenon, which Hammond has dubbed the holiday parado... See more
scientificamerican.com • Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up With Age?
holiday paradox - why you can’t remember what you had for breakfast yesterday (yogurt? breakfast sandwich? did I even eat breakfast yesterday?) but you can remember with vivid detail the red wine you drank and headed, veined shrimp you ate at the base of the Greek Acropolis six years ago