Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in threads about perceived time as a good, detailed explanation of the effect.
What it is
Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends hudixt · 2020-10 · on “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.
Recommends shmde · 2021-11 · on “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]
Recommends cornstalks · 2021-11 · on “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]
Recommends activatedgeek · 2024-08 · on “Perceived Age”
This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested. [1]: [this video] (2016)
Cites mortehu · 2023-03 · on “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.