That's interesting. I thought I had read that older people perceive time more slowly than younger people but I wonder if that can be overcome by keeping our sense of time-telling "calibrated" by periodically checking our accuracy.
But feels like it wouldn’t be hard for that long term sense of time to be fairly disconnected with a very short term one.
- boring things: usually a slow dirge or filled with brief distractions
- novel things: either no sense of time passing, or a feeling of time going anywhere from slowly to “endless”
- mundane things: time passes “at a familiar rate”, but I remember fee details later
Anecdotally, I had this feeling of time moving more and more quickly, and "that thing which feels just a week ago was actually a year ago" until my early 30s, when I finally decided to unsubscribe from routines.
As I gradually moved away from having a daily schedule, I had more time for unique and memorable experiences in my everyday life, and this feeling began to change.
Nowadays, it is actualy more typical for me to feel the other way, meaning something which was just a week ago feels like it was much longer.