How a clock measures time and how you perceive it are quite different. As we grow older, it can often feel like time goes by faster and faster. This speeding up of subjective time with age is well documented by psychologists, but there is no consensus on the cause. In a paper published this...
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James M. Broadway, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Brittiney Sandoval, a recent graduate of the same institution, answer
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Actual time and our mental time are very different things.
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The minutes tick by steadily, unchanging, and yet the days pass faster as you get older. A new paper explains how we perceive time.
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I couldn't access the second one but I was aware of the explanation(s) presented in the others. I'm also a regular reader of Psychology Today as I studied psychology in college.
I've read up about it before but so far as I know there's still no consensus and more explanations could be offered.
Regardless though, I find it both distressing and... really odd to experience.
It's weird to be reminded of how subjective our experience of reality is. Even time does not flow how we feel. The world (probably) exists IRL but we don't actually experience it. We experience our mental copy of it.
Hell, so much of what we see is solid has so much empty space. And that's not even taking into account the quantum weirdness that exists. Reality is a strange soup that our brains create a simpler and more stable duplicate of with the information we gather. But we can never see reality. Only guess at it.
Hell, we have a blind spot in our eyes and don't notice it cuz our brain just fills in the gap. How weird is that? We are hallucinating just a little bit at all times.
