Why Is Time Flying By so Quickly These Days?
It’s already March!
Objectively, Earth is spinning faster.
Last year on June 29th scientists recorded the shortest day ever since 1960.
And apparently, it has been speeding up for a few years.
So when you add those few milliseconds over time, it builds up significantly.
Subjectively, it feels like January was just yesterday.
So why do people tend to have this warped perception of time?
There’s less novelty in your life
Time is remembered as a collection of memories.
And you form memories with novelty. Stimuli have to pop out of the background to be meaningful to us. They have to be different from what we are either experiencing at that time or new.
Otherwise, your brain will discard it as something of no importance and move on.
New experiences build up memory slots and when we reflect on them and see more in our database we conclude we’ve done more things in time.
It takes more time to retrieve all that has happened to us than when we didn’t have so many memories so we feel the time has passed slower.
