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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:53 pm
by sandy_mcd
Jbuza wrote: Everyone automatically knows this, as we get older we all realize that time goes faster and faster. But it doesn't really. When you are five years old a summer is 15-20% of your experince (since the earliest ones are not rememered), but when you are 60 a summer is .5% of your experience.
Just ran across this and thought of your post:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/47329 wrote:My favorite psychology chapter is one that asks why, as we get older, the years seem to go by faster and faster. Carefully designed experiments suggest there is actually an explanation for this annoying impression. As we age, our biological clocks run slower and, since our clocks are running slower, the world seems to speed up. Depressing as this may be for those of us long past the subjective midpoint of our lives (which turns out to be about 20 for someone who lives to be 80), it could be worse. Ingram describes a man with a brain tumor that affected his biological clock who quit driving and watching television because traffic seemed to be rushing at him at an incomprehensible speed and television nattered on faster than he could follow.