unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.detoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the phenomenon of time bending after 2020 called?
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23 days agoBeing depressed.
Seriously tho for most people the older you get the faster time seems to pass. The relationship to age is not really causal tho afaik. Age just correlates with people leading less interesting lives, being less social and learning less new stuff. Being bored and intellectually stagnant makes subjective time go faster.
Veritasium did a video about the relationship between subjective time perception (chronoception) and age.
What you are describing is correlation not causality. Its not a biological change that comes with age which causes this. Its the environment that older people are in that causes it. If you were to keep taking in new information and experiences at the same rate as when you were a child, the effect would not manifest. Thats basically impossible tho, which is why this is such a universal experience.
We are not on autopilot because we are old, but because there is no reason to change our behaviour anymore. If you take someone out of that autopilotable stagnat environment (moving abroad, vacation, getting kids, etc), then the effect will go away, until they have adjusted enough to be on autopilot again.
I feel like we are psychologically old because we are on autopilot and not because we are physically old.