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muontrack wrote:What about women? How do they factor into this time ordeal? Surely it's not as simple as you describe???
JustAnEngineer wrote:When you're doing the same thing every day, your memory edits the boring parts down to a summary. When you're having lots of new experiences, you may choose to remember more details.
just brew it! wrote:Hypothesis: The subjective speed at which time passes is measured against how long you've been alive. In other words, when you're 25 years old, a year feels like how 2-1/2 months felt when you were 5. And when you're 50, time feels like it passes 2x as fast as when you were 25.
Discuss.
BIF wrote:Maybe that's also why we don't let 5 year olds drink or drive cars. Or get married.
just brew it! wrote:Hypothesis: The subjective speed at which time passes is measured against how long you've been alive. In other words, when you're 25 years old, a year feels like how 2-1/2 months felt when you were 5. And when you're 50, time feels like it passes 2x as fast as when you were 25.
Discuss.
just brew it! wrote:muontrack wrote:What about women? How do they factor into this time ordeal? Surely it's not as simple as you describe???
Eh... what? Are you saying that women experience time differently than men, or that women change the way men perceive time? Please explain what you're getting at here.
just brew it! wrote:BIF wrote:Maybe that's also why we don't let 5 year olds drink or drive cars. Or get married.
I think you're conflating a couple of (or more?) disconnected concepts here. Or did you really intend to tie together responsibility/maturity and the speed at which we perceive time to pass?
Meadows wrote:I believe time depends on your size, heartbeat, and metabolism.
A short while ago it has been proven that insects actually do sense everything in "slow motion" compared to humans. And small dogs can feel like everything takes up to twice as long as it's felt by a human. And large animals, such as elephants or whales, have as few as ten times less heartbeats per minute (and slower reaction times) than humans.
It's all a matter of how fast you burn. The faster you burn, the more "time" you will process per second.
Krogoth wrote:Time is all relative anyway.
The perception of time is primarily affected by your brain. That's why chemical alternating substances, sleep and other mental ailments related to physical brain trauma "distort" the flow of the time.
Pink Floyd wrote:[...]
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around
To come up behind you again [...]
just brew it! wrote:Krogoth wrote:Time is all relative anyway.
The perception of time is primarily affected by your brain. That's why chemical alternating substances, sleep and other mental ailments related to physical brain trauma "distort" the flow of the time.
So aging is a mental ailment...
morphine wrote:Pink Floyd wrote:[...]
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around
To come up behind you again [...]
just brew it! wrote:Krogoth wrote:Time is all relative anyway.
The perception of time is primarily affected by your brain. That's why chemical alternating substances, sleep and other mental ailments related to physical brain trauma "distort" the flow of the time.
So aging is a mental ailment...
Krogoth wrote:just brew it! wrote:So aging is a mental ailment...
Your brain starts to fail after a while. That's why dementia and similar conditions correlate with advanced age. The human body isn't designed or meant to last forever. It is inherently unstable. That's why life procreates/replicates itself to combat this.
just brew it! wrote:Hypothesis: The subjective speed at which time passes is measured against how long you've been alive. In other words, when you're 25 years old, a year feels like how 2-1/2 months felt when you were 5. And when you're 50, time feels like it passes 2x as fast as when you were 25.
Discuss.
Hawkwing74 wrote:As an adult I look forward to time I'm not sleeping or working or commuting. 8 hrs sleeping, 2 hrs commuting, 9 hrs at work...when is retirement coming? When work days are pretty similar, time blurs together.
Just 7608 more days