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Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

Veritasium4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
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Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.

Cited in threads about perceived time as a good, detailed explanation of the effect.

Psychology & human behaviorNeuroscience & the brain

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@hudixt2020 · in “Ask HN: As I get older, I see seconds tick physically faster. Am I alone?”

Here's the video from Veritasium around same topic [VIDEO] Video explains it in detail about why this happens.

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@shmde2021 · in “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”

There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" [VIDEO]

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@cornstalks2021 · in “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”

That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: [VIDEO]

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@mortehu2023 · in “Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf]”

Veritasium has a video about this subject: [VIDEO] It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.

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@activatedgeek2024 · in “Perceived Age”

This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested. [1]: [VIDEO] (2016)

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