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One very simple explanation I’ve read is that time perception (as time itself) is relative. Time goes slower when you are a child because your perception of time is relative to the totality of time you’ve experienced.

So for instance, when you go from 1 to 2yrs old, it’s double the amount of your entire life, but from 80 to 81 it’s just a small fraction.

Not sure if this has been proven or is even possible to prove.

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I thought I watched a Vsauce video that debunked this idea. Instead they suggested it was the fact that adults have fewer novel experiences than children. In other words, have lots of new experiences and time seems to extend. Something about the brain storing "same" in some kind of compressed time memory slot.

Oh yeah, found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHL9GP_B30E

Is the brain applying LoRa on our memory model?

That makes sense to me.

Also, if you think about memory recall, it takes a second to recall a memory.

So you have the ability to traverse time at a rate of (Your Current Age - Age of Your Earliest Memory) / 1 second

So maybe it’s also the feeling that looking back in time feels faster (more time has elapsed relative to the speed of memory recall) as you get older.

On top of this, the totality of your experience also grows with time. To a four year old, many day-to-day experiences are fresh and new. By the time they’re thirty, there are far fewer such events on any given day.

“Life is short and life is long, but not in that order.”

https://youtu.be/SNgyEmYyQF4

I also tend to view it this way.

Came here to write the same thing :)

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