People with XxX_BootYSLaYer98_xXx usernames are no longer literal children.
I read somewhere that your perception of time is directly linked to learning new things. As a kid every day you learn something new, as an adult you are exposed to less new things and as a result your brain saves space by removing stuff non-essential. That's why days, weeks or months merge together some times.
Also boring routine blurs your memories into one grey paste.
The 90s will forever be "just 10 years ago".
I mean, when I was 10 there was less life to be confused by. I still do have problems placing events in my childhood unless there's a really obvious market somewhere in there. A lot of memories where I'm like "Was I 8, or 12?" But you also have other advantages, because most of your early life is strictly signposted and was shaken up my massive changes that are easy to track. Memories about school are super duper easy to place because every year of school was highly unique, different classes, teachers, and friends. Memories of playing over summer are much harder to differentiate. As an adult I like to regularly update my mental database of years that movies, games, historical events etc took place in or came out in, because it helps me signpost for my own memories.
This is ringing a bell in my head but I can't place itTired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
The working week doesn't help. You race through the week looking forward to the weekend then you suddenly realise it's 10 years later.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
The working week doesn't help. You race through the week looking forward to the weekend then you suddenly realise it's 10 years later.
As an adult I like to regularly update my mental database of years that movies, games, historical events etc took place in or came out in, because it helps me signpost for my own memories.
This is ringing a bell in my head but I can't place it
Pretty much.I guess taking more vacations or doing crazy things like skydiving is one way to combat this and make new integral memories.
Of course! ingrained in my head via Dub Side Of The Moon.Pink Floyd.
Yeah I would think the brain would discard even more memories it deems non-essential. You might need to start a journal/diary or somethingbegs the question if you could extend your life in the future through biotech of some sort, but this phenomenon doesn't go away, what would be the end result?
It gets worse as you get older
I'm 43 this week, and it feels like my fast forward button is stuck down.
The 90s will forever be "just 10 years ago".
I know you're going to Japan soon. When you're there, you'll be surprised as time seems much slower.
It's not the country per se, but the fact you will have lots of new experieces. I think this is how we perceive time as children: as a succession of new instances. As we get older these don't happen as often, but when they do, percpetion of time slows down.
Just a theory, but see if it's true . . . .
The older you become, the less novel experiences you have. Your brain doesn't have to work as hard when it only encounters things its used to and done many times before. Time seems slower when your brain has to put in more effort. To slow down time as an adult, you'd have to dive head first in to a new hobby in a new arena of interest like every few years or something, I don't know.
I was just thinking about this recently. I'm about the same age as you, OP, and experience the same thing. When I think how important 5 years was in high school, or even college, it's staggering. 5 years ago it was 2012. I still feel like it's 2012. Don't even get me started on when people say things that came out after that are dated now.
Get a kid. Your life will go by even faster... it seems.
I know exactly what you mean. Time seems to go by real fucking fast when you're older.
Get a kid. Your life will go by even faster... it seems.
I know exactly what you mean. Time seems to go by real fucking fast when you're older.