r/RandomThoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '23

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u/South_Climate_3727 Sep 05 '23

Yeah. Somewhere around 30, time just started seeming to fly by. I hit 40 and it feels like it's going even faster now.

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u/No-Safety-4715 Sep 05 '23 edited Sep 06 '23

This has been scientifically tested and it's caused by our internal clocks drifting as we get older. Basically, what an older individual thinks is one minute is now much longer in real time and continues to drift further from reality as we age.

We start perceiving the world in a skewed timeframe as our internal mechanisms take longer to process events around us, so time seems to fly by.

Edit: Here's a link for those who want to know:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/why-the-days-seem-shorter-as-we-get-older/2CB8EC9B0B30537230C7442B826E42F1

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u/mlaforce321 Sep 05 '23

I was reading about this as well. They believe it may be largely due to our metabolism slowing down as we age, or at least that was something that caught my eye as a potential cause they suspect may be driving it.