 WebWolf Hosting says: Douwe Draaisma, Professor of Psychology at the University of Groningen, will discuss some of the temporal illusions experienced in everyday life using insights from the psychology of autobiographical memory and brain science. Professor Draaisma will focus on experiences ranging from the mysterious expansion of the last few seconds before an impact, such as in a collision or a fall; to the subjective, but unmistakable sensation reported by many past their forties: life seems to speed up with age. While I can't deny their research and points of view, I have my own idea as to why life speeds up as one ages. It's simple, really. Every given day, week, month, or year, while maintaining the same measured content of time always, becomes a continuing smaller fraction of your life experience. At age 4 a month is 1/48th of your life's experience and as such is relatively easy to distinguish from the other months you have experienced. However, at age 65 that same month becomes 1/780th of your life's experience and the likely hood of it standing out from any other of the 779 months you have experienced becomes considerably less. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Oh, BTW, there's always ... Every given day, week, month, or year, while maintaining the same measured content of time always, becomes a continuing smaller fraction of your life experience.That's my reason too. Popped for BB and Aces' comments, for I've long thought the same way. |
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