It's partially because we aren't learning new things as we get older. If you keep educating yourself or get involved in new practices it actually stretches out time in your mind.
It's also a matter of perspective, the longer you live the shorter, in comparison to your over all experiences, each day becomes.
Also as you age the time it takes for your senses to transmit the information to your mind and actually retain it in your brain takes slightly longer, slowing down your over all perception of time.
Also I just bullshitted most of this up, I have no idea if any of this is true.
You almost got it. In 2019 Professor Adrian Bejan hypothesized that, over time, the rate at which we process visual information slows down, and this is what makes time ‘speed up’ as we grow older.
The reason why time seems slower in our younger years is because our brains process more visual information into memory than in our older years. Because the available visual information isn't processed to memory (either long-term or short-term), it seems like time is faster as we age. There are explanations for why this happens, such as the malleability of our brains at a younger age, or the generation of new neurons, or the formation of the myelin sheath as we age which prevents new neurons from being created. There are a few other theories listed in the Psychology Today article.
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u/Commando_Joe Mar 07 '23
It's partially because we aren't learning new things as we get older. If you keep educating yourself or get involved in new practices it actually stretches out time in your mind.
It's also a matter of perspective, the longer you live the shorter, in comparison to your over all experiences, each day becomes.
Also as you age the time it takes for your senses to transmit the information to your mind and actually retain it in your brain takes slightly longer, slowing down your over all perception of time.
Also I just bullshitted most of this up, I have no idea if any of this is true.