Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Veritasium4 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2020-2024
8M views · 10 years ago · explainer · evergreen
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.
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5 comments from Hacker News
This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested. [1]: ▶ this video (2016)
Veritasium has a video about this subject: ▶ this video It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.
That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: ▶ this video
There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" ▶ this video
Here's the video from Veritasium around same topic ▶ this video Video explains it in detail about why this happens.