Time perception

[bassybill]

Isn't it totally weird that two weeks ago can seem like forever and years and years ago can seem like yesterday?

[Tituscrow]

"Put your hand on a hot plate and a minute can seem like an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl on a train and an hour can seem like a minute. That's Relativity."

Einstein.

[PSPookie]

It speeds up as you get older too.

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Originally Posted by PSPookie

It speeds up as you get older too.

Yup, I remember summers that never ended as a kid.

Today: What, is it fall already??

The years go by pretty fast these days.

[stratovani]

What really scares me is that there's a lot of things I'd like to do in my remaining years, and time will go by so fast that I won't have time to get them all done!


BTW "Time Perception" was the name of a garage band I was in back in the 70s. The band's name was good, too bad that's about all that was good!

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by PSPookie

It speeds up as you get older too.

Oh yeah. Similar to what Ívar said, a year used to seem a very long time. Now it seems like I could blink and miss one.

[EdHunter]

I'm 18, and think I have "Old Man Passage of Time Syndrome". Things move so fast these days. It feels like just yesterday that I was hanging out in Berlin, but it's well over a year ago.

I blame intensive school and cheap alcohol.

[Bloodhammer]

Originally Posted by PSPookie

It speeds up as you get older too.

As you get older, units of time seem smaller relative to your age. When you turned 5 years old, a year was an entire fifth of your life at that time.

Being busy seems to speed it up too, but that's something else. I guess you miss a lot when you're focused on a few things.

[Funky Ghost]

When you're not concerned about tomorrow, tomorrow takes it's time.

[Papa Dangerous]

That is why you must enjoy your time awake and asleep. I read this thing on lucid dreaming the other day... Something like if you take a marker, and put a dot on your hand in the morning... that through out the day, every time you notice this dot, look around you - read something that is letters or numbers, look away and than look back. If it is the same you are awake, different you are asleep. This seems odd when you know your awake, but apparently it makes you conscious of when you are awake, so that when you are asleep you are aware you are asleep. Something like that, not really too sure on the finer details. But lucid dreaming and learning to control your dreams seems like something cool. We spend 1/3 of the day asleep, typically, so that is 1/3 our lives. Might as well live it up when you can!

[thefruitfarmer]

Years ago can seem like yesterday because we remember experience in the present tense.

Think about something that happened years ago and remember how you felt. The feelings you felt back then are the same as the feelings you feel now.

That is why you feel like you are there and how it seems only a moment away.....

[hover]

It at times is unfair how quickly time appears to go. I remember vividly the memories behind photographs of my daughter being much younger, and here she is, turning 17 in a week.

It's criminal the times I don't enjoy just living, waiting for the weekend to come and all that nonsense that seems to fly by ever quicker. It blows my mind that I recall exactly what I was doing and it's a year ago already...and all the "routines" involved, almost like checkmarking off to-dos...did we go to the orchard to pick apples this year? Check. Well, time to get the oil tank filled and break out the winter coats. Just nuts. I long for a time where I didn't care that tomorrow was Monday.

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[nutdog]

The thing that trips me out about memories it what triggers them. Sights, sounds, smells. When the weather turns pleasant this time of year it always takes me back to college when I would skip class to play ultimate frisbee. "How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this? "

One of the things that draws me to music is the fact it can't be grasped, yet it has such power. One of those powers is the ability bring back memories and put you in a place that might otherwise be forgotten.

[Big_Daddy]

When I started working full-time after graduation, the time just keeps flying by. Once I finally wrap my head around what month it is, it's already the beginning of the next month...

Were did my last year go?

[baalroo]

I believe the perception of time is dependent upon unique and divergent events. The brain is most attentive when presented with unfamiliar stimuli. As you age your accumulated life experiences mean that less and less will be unique or divergent from past experiences, and thus you pay less attention while the markers to measure the passage from one circumstance to the next become fewer and more far between. When you're five a bright red ball is fascinating, it's possible you've never seen a bright red ball... thus your brain sort of 'notates' that something new has occurred. So basically, as a child experiencing a bright red ball for the first time sort of ticks off another moment of perception. When you're 50, you've seen plenty of bright red balls, and thus the sight of one doesn't become a moment of new perception. Basically, the older you get the slower the meter that measures time runs... and thus, the faster the world around you flows past between measurable moments.

[Phalex]

I think that if it were possible for a man to live forever, at some point time would start to go by so fast that he'd eventually go insane......

[turbo chicken]

yup ... a song my drummer introduced me to... im not much of a mayer fan but "Stop this train" really rings true.

i try to think of just today ... what needs to be done today and balance that with ... how much time i get to spend with my family..

tonight is game night... i think spongebob operation and old maid are what was picked.

[Jay2U]

Einstein's theory of relativity states that if we could (almost) reach the speed of light, time would noticeably slow down. If we grow older we slow down, so time passes noteably faster.

[tZer]

I don't recommend this but if you wanna see time slow down to epic, super-slo-mo get set on fire by your guitar player and observe the 'Matrix effect' for yourself.

I did - it did - and aside from the world of pain that came shortly thereafter, it was really pretty amazing.

[Timmah]

I like where this thread is going...