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Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

Veritasium
4 HN recommenders · discussed 2020–2024
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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.

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hudixt · 2020-10 · rec

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

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shmde · 2021-11 · rec

There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" [VIDEO]

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cornstalks · 2021-11 · rec

That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: [VIDEO]

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activatedgeek · 2024-08 · rec

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

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mortehu · 2023-03 · reference

Veritasium has a video about this subject: [VIDEO] It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.

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