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Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

Name: Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Description: Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.

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

Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.

“Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling” (HN, 2021)

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@hudixt Oct 2020 Recommends

on HN thread Ask HN: As I get older, I see seconds tick physically faster. Am I alone?

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

Explains in detail why time seems to speed up with age

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@shmde Nov 2021 Recommends

on HN thread 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" [this video]

Good video on why life seems to speed up

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@cornstalks Nov 2021 Recommends

on HN thread 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: [this video]

Offers more compelling alternative explanations than the common argument

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@activatedgeek Aug 2024 Recommends

on HN thread Perceived Age

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

Covers the effect for the interested

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@mortehu Mar 2023 Cites it

on HN thread Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf]

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.

Time passes faster when older even at minute scale

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