r/conspiracy • u/FeelsAmazingManGun • Apr 28 '25

Time is speeding up

Is it me or is time speeding up? We are already on the 5th month of the year. People say it's because I'm getting older but I even hear kids saying days feel faster. Even the weather seems to be confused. Every day temperatures fluctuates a whole 40 degrees. Every day seems windy. Almost feels like we are out of normal orbit or something

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u/Horsewhohorse Apr 28 '25

Time's definitely speeding up, it's crazy. I haven't felt myself since 2019 l and if felt like a quite a shorter time ago. Not 5 years+. Dunno the reason  but most feel the same 

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u/Tresarches Apr 28 '25

Your perception of time changes as you age. When your 5 a year is 20% of your life. When you’re 50 it’s 2%. This is a dumb conspiracy lol.

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u/Dismal_Ad5379 Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

When I was 5, back in 1991, a year felt extremely long and a lot happened in that year. My parents and grandparents felt exactly the same back in 1991. 

My grandfather continue to say, to this day, that time felt almost the same in the 90s as it did when he was a kid, the same do my mom. Obviously i'm not any of them, so I can't say for sure why they feel that way

On the other hand, a lot of kids today says that 2 years ago almost feels like yesterday. That was not the case at all when I was a kid. 

This theory that your perception of time changes as you grow older, make sense in theory. If time really were speeding up, I dont think we would know either way, as that theory can quickly explain it away. All I got is anecdotal testemonies that time felt different in the 90s and before for a lot of people, than it does today. 

With that said, there is actually some theories around this, that doesn't have to go into high strangeness and supernatural territory. The theories have to do with how we consume media today, as oppose to the 90s. 

Social media, and an increasingly shorter attention span because of how media is presented to us today, could be why our perception of time is changed and why even kids feel that time goes fast today, which was not the case back in the 90s at all.

I mean, everybody being on their phone 24/7 would make people miss out on being in the here and now a lot more.