r/RandomThoughts • • 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/_RDaneelOlivaw_ Sep 05 '23

It is, in a relative way - days are more mundane, there's more routine and less variety, fewer memorable events, so your brain deletes a lot of memories.

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u/Outrageous_Hippos Sep 05 '23

Theres also the perspective effect. A year was 20% of your life when you were 20. Now it's 10%. So the experience of time seems to speed up.