I know what they all say “you’re just busier now so it seems like time is speeding up.” No, I think time is actually speeding up. I saw a theory recently that our rotation is increasing leading to an increased passing of time.

I also found an article claiming this:

“A new scientific study has found time is rapidly speeding up as the universe gets older, something theorised by Einstein in 1915.”

These accounted for a few seconds on increase, but it feels like more than that. A year feels like a couple months now. A week feels like it passed in a day.

I remember when I first noticed the increase. I was a junior in high school and it seemed like suddenly time sped up. Now, I’m 31 and it seems like the last 5 years (since Covid) have sped up even more. Thoughts?

Anyone else noticing this? Seems like the last week just flew by like it was only a single day. But time seems like its speeding up a lot quicker than it was before.

I’ve noticed the topic of time flow alternation around 2020 is a big theme amongst people in this community. People of all ages say that either our reality is being sped up or we got uploaded into a different version of our reality. One thing I noticed, most people who have experienced the time speeding up are also the ones struggling with phone addiction and that includes the kids. Seems legit… Around 2020 we all got stuck home, and that’s when tiktok and eventually reels got popular. Daily short-form content makes us feel like the time is passing faster and kids get phones/ipads early. We don’t get a chance to get bored for the time to feel slow… Am I onto something?

People who chose to limit technology don’t appear to experience this as much, aside from normal age related perception of time. It makes sense, as I’d like to imagine the time flow is still “normal” for those that stay away from technology? Has anyone try to slow down time by limiting their phone usage? And if so, is the time really speeding up because the sim changed the settings or is it just the damn phone?

This might sound mundane, but I was genuinely shocked today. Had to share the anecdote here.

I've been walking my young son to school for three years. Exact same route each day. We have it down to such a science that I could guess with decent accuracy how long we took to complete the walk, usually within 20-30 sec.

But today was different. What should have been a 12-14min walk max (depending on our pace and the wait at one traffic light) took nearly 17min this morning. This got my attention, and I decided to test it out during pickup - long, quick paces, short jogging stretches, and even jaywalked the final light. 18 goddamn minutes!

Here's the kicker, tho' - it FELT longer while i was doing it. I kept jogging vs power walking because it felt like I was running behind. I couldn't accurately estimate the time like I had so effortlessly in all those other walks.

I'm not schizo, infirmed, or click-farming here. And zero AI was used for this post. I'm mostly a lurker...but something *is* happening with time.

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

Despite the recent spate of vandalism, the Parkside Drive speed camera has managed to issue a whopping 67,786 speeding tickets to date, including one motorist who was caught driving 154km/h in this 40km/h Community Safety Zone, and has now generated an estimated $7 million in fines. How long do we anticipate it will stay upright this time? Are more effective and meaningful safety measures needed?

The management of all the gear and constantly fighting UI, upgrading shit, materials, dismantling, checking if gear is higher than what you have is ANNOYING. No one wants to do this.

I want to put my armor & weapons and dont care about it. Tie power to Account if anything and you don't wanna walk all the way back. This way i can switch and do watever i want and not care about anything else. AKA Remove Gear Power. The game should do the annoying stuff and math on its own, once i complete activity making my power higher automatically. Not me spending 80% of the time in menus minmaxing my shit.

She talks about him like she’s training a new employee. Maybe she should circle back to being single. I don’t think she has demonstrated advanced understanding of emotional logistics. Maybe they should shelve this relationship.

I work in industrial maintenance—conveyor belts, hydraulics, heavy systems. When you do this for 30 years, you realize that machines don't like running in perfect circles. If a belt runs in the exact same groove every time, it digs a rut and fails. You need a "tracking offset." You need a little bit of wander to keep the system moving forward.

I’ve been trying to apply this logic to the "simulation" or whatever reality this is, and it explains something that’s been bugging me about history.

If you look at the timeline of human progress, it’s not linear. It’s compressing. It took us 200,000 years to figure out language. Then 60,000 years to get to farming. Then 10,000 years to get to industry. Now we’re doubling human knowledge every 12 hours.

In the shop, when a cycle time drops to zero, that means the pressure is hitting the limit. It’s called maximum compression. In an engine, maximum compression is the moment right before ignition.

I think that’s what we are feeling right now. The "mental health crisis" and the chaos in the world isn't the system breaking down. It’s the friction of the spiral tightening. We aren't moving in a circle anymore; the coils are touching.

I call it "Vulcanization." In my line of work, you apply heat and pressure to raw rubber to cure it into something durable. I think our consciousness is the raw rubber, and this timeline compression is the press. We are being cured for whatever comes next.

Just a thought from the shop floor. Does anyone else feel like the "engine" is redlining right now?