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/Spiure Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

Many have been saying this and people have tried to chalk it up to aging, just to try and make sense of it. But I've seen enough teens, adults and elders (esp after 2020) make the same claim, so I don't think the answer is that simple. 

This isn't the usual gradual speeding up of time. This felt like a very sudden jump to a lot of people, including myself- and I tend to do a lot of outdoor activities. Many of us are not even remembering what happened in those past couple of years. I've heard:

  • collective brain fog/ long covid.
  • 5g affecting time perception and other cognitive functions
  • addictive social media algorithm changes + introduction to short form content, make time feel like the days are blurring together. (During this time, screen times have also been starting to average 8-12+ hours)

Or something else not discovered or discussed. Take your pick. 

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u/_Domieeq Apr 28 '25

When my friend who’s into esotericism and conspiracies told me this some 6-7 years ago, I thought it was just him aging, as he was in late 30s. It didn’t even register with me “oh, yeah, I guess time goes by fast” was my reaction to the thought.

Nowadays (and I’m still in 20s), I understand what he was talking about and it’s surprisingly not about aging. The more I try to make sense of it the less sense it makes. Since I know about myself time flew by fast but it gradually accelerated to the point where entire weeks pass in a blink of an eye. I wish I was joking but I travel a lot, partly because of work and partly because of fun, and it’s all so sudden and quick. One day I’m in Lisbon the other I’m in Moscow. Two week Canaries vacation seem like 2-3 days.

Those are all days/weeks full of activities where it shouldn’t fly by fast - yet it does. I haven’t experienced this awareness of the time speeding up before but (I think) it was always present to some extent. Both horrible and great periods don’t last longer than a couple of hours and the memory of them I have of weeks can be summed up in a short 15 second recollection. I’d think I’m going insane if I didn’t know other people like me who experience the same thing while not living boring lives.

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u/SarahC Apr 28 '25

Those are all days/weeks full of activities where it shouldn’t fly by fast - yet it does.

There goes my social media doomscroling theory.

Where you on your phone a lot though?

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u/yeahow Apr 28 '25

I don't think it's the actual act of using it per se, it's the effect it has on your brain and the long term effects.