Every new drop in the memory bucket is proportional to all the memories in the bucket. Each new memory makes up less of the whole, making it seem like time goes faster. It’s a real phenomenon
I’m not sure how scientific that is in terms of how the brain actually works — I mean it’s a network of neurons that adjust connections, not a hard drive that can be filled or emptied…
But I love how much I relate to your anecdote — It just feels like it makes sense — because we really do perceive time to pass faster as we age.
I was just summing up a concept I remembered from somewhere. If we’re going to get specific about it, it’s called Weber’s Law, there’s an interesting numberphile video about it about the rate of change, and our experience with different levels of stimulus where the required “ratio” to feel a difference remains the same, which essentially means it takes more to notice the more experiences we’ve had in total. It wasnt an anecdote either, it was a metaphor for that concept / law regarding life experiences. It’s a very real thing.
It being neurons reinforcing connections doesn’t mean there isnt a rate of change, and my example in no way implies there’s a hard drive (nor does Webers law)
Edit: it’s also interesting because it’s the answer to the question of “how much can they shrink the candy bar before we notice?”.
How do I make time stop going faster?
Learn new things, do new stuff.
No that just makes time go by even faster, cause time flies when you’re having fun. I need real solutions.
Then you just need to forget everything you know… Traumatic head injury?
When I say ‘learn new things’, I don’t mean watch YouTube videos of factoids. I mean things like sitting down and learning calculus if you haven’t already. You’ll need to push yourself out of your comfort zone significantly to slow down the perceived passage of time.
Nah, you have to compress everything since 2000 in a single line, and make 2020 take all of the rest of it.
Now do January 2025.
The IRL version of the used car salesman meme: “(Slaps roof) We can fit so many months inside this bad boy…”
Just wait for the rest of the year. I had finally gotten done with 2016 and now this?
Born in 1981, yep.
I read an interesting article about this phenomen a few weeks ago; https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/aging-time-speed-faster-reason-cause-b2673746.html
I am on the contrary quite comforted by this. Easier to make sense of things, tackle or accept things that don’t make sense.
Lots of difficulties behind, making current and future ones seem manageable.
Growing old is not that bad.
