Hi,
Been going through some my old memories and photos. Why childhood time been so rich in memories and experiences.
And is it, when we grow up our time perception changes as well?
"This might happen for at least two reasons.
First, when we are young, everything is new. And, when things are new, they are more exciting or more terrifying. And, when events are more emotionally charged, we are more likely to record them as memories.
Second, as we get older we describe our experience in larger chunks. Ask a child how he got home, and he will tell you he left school, got chased by a bully, found a round rock to kick, kicked it until it hopped the curb near the mean dog’s yard, found another rock to kick, got teased by a girl, and so forth. Ask an adult, they’ll tell you simply that they walked home."
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Under Pressure
"If running past our time estimates makes us feel like we’ve lost time, then maybe we should make more firm deadlines in our lives.
Or, maybe not.
In a 2005 paper, Wittman and Lehnhoff asked study participants: “How fast did the last 10 years pass for you?” And what they found was that, the older people were, the faster time seemed to pass -- at least until they got into their 50s. After that point, between 50 and 90, people’s ratings for the speed of the passing of time leveled off. [1]
Why?
Wittman and Lehnhoff also asked people how much they resonated with “time pressure” metaphors. Such metaphors resonated quite well with people from their late teens until their early 50s, but not as well after that point.
Linking the two findings, Wittman and Lehnhoff suggested that time pressure might be one of the factors causing subjective time to accelerate for people.
And that makes some sense. People tend to work and make decisions under pressure quite a bit between the ages of 16 and 50. And we do feel like time moves more quickly when under pressure. Consider the following phenomena:
When a basketball team is down by 20 at the start of the 4th quarter, and is trying to mount a comeback, that 4th quarter can seem to move unmercifully quickly.
A 40 year old woman who has always wanted to have kids, and who has no good mating prospects in her immediate orbit might feel like her youth passed far too quickly, and that time is running out on her.
When your term paper is due tomorrow, and you still don’t have a good angle, you can wonder how the term went so quickly, and feel like the remaining time is simply not enough.
When your firstborn is 16, and you realize he or she will be leaving the house in another year or so to go off to college, you might be struck with how quickly the last 16 years went, and judge that the remaining time is simply not enough. (Though, if the job market remains depressed, parents can console themselves with the thought that, after college, the child will be back.)
When you’re 50 years old and you still haven’t reached your main career goals, and you realize that you’re career won’t last much past 70, time can seem to be moving much too quickly.
These are the kinds of things that can wake us up at 2 am, filled with despair at the passing of time and the dwindling hope that we will ever make anything of ourselves.
And, if our main first-person running commentary throughout our lives involves the thought “there’s never enough time”, is it any wonder we feel like time is passing more quickly than it should?"
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