When you're ten, a year of your life is one 10th of ALL your time, so it seems like forrreeeevver. When you're 50.... a year is 1/50th of your time. It seems to go by in a blink.

@swimminsurfer256

2 жыл бұрын

That's not really how the brain processes time though. You're not comparing now to all the previous "now"s you've experienced. Looking back, did the year you turned 16 seem half as long as the year you turned 8? Novelty of experience is a much more convincing theory than the idea of proportional time perception, particularly because your recollection of "how long did X take" is contingent on you remembering it. Standing in line for 4 hours may feel like hell during it, but you don't really remember it and thus looking back on it, it doesn't feel like a big chunk of your past. Compared to, say, the moment you proposed to your SO. That moment takes maybe 30 seconds, but that moment sticks in your mind way more than the 4 hours spent standing in line.

@JU4NJO5UE

2 жыл бұрын

@@swimminsurfer256 this makes much sense

@aguy559

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. That’s exactly what it is. I don’t see why these guys don’t get it.

@merccc1

2 жыл бұрын

@@swimminsurfer256 It's both working together. Looking back, proportional perception abstracted by only really the highlights of your memories. works together to amplify that perception.

@user-fu2xq3kw3m

2 жыл бұрын

Pls tell me where did that 1/50th fraction come from

"Why does time feel faster as you age?" i remember this like it was yesterday

@andhewonders

2 жыл бұрын

I'll save it till tomorrow in case I'm bored.

@epic6272

2 жыл бұрын

Cause it was yesterday when you typed this-

@mayhemdiscordchaosohmy573

2 жыл бұрын

It IS yesterday now!

@rajveerkanojiya2985

2 жыл бұрын

@@andhewonders 1 month

@andhewonders

2 жыл бұрын

@@rajveerkanojiya2985 It's only been two weeks for me.

Ah I thought it was just because we're all hurtling towards death at an ever increasing speed, this makes more sense though thanks 😂

@masternobody1896

2 жыл бұрын

lmao thats why you should read quran best book ever

@SamuelSamuelSamuel1

2 жыл бұрын

@@masternobody1896 I read it and it didn’t stick with me. I liked some parts but some parts I liked less. *COUGH COUGH* “Strike fear in the hearts of all who don’t believe allahs name” Other than that a good sum of the writing was good 👍.

@DreamPinkClouds

2 жыл бұрын

@@masternobody1896 shut up

@allroundlad

2 жыл бұрын

@@SamuelSamuelSamuel1 I think they meant tell em they're going to hell if they're a non-believer but obviously it got interpreted incorrectly.

@mistynights2834

2 жыл бұрын

@@allroundlad even worse

Vsauce Michael does an excellent video about this time phenomenon called "Illusions of Time."

@masternobody1896

2 жыл бұрын

yes

@johngriller4997

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to comment this

@PeterDB90

2 жыл бұрын

@@johngriller4997 Same XD

@nibblesnbits

2 жыл бұрын

Um. It's not VSauce Michael. It's "'Heeey, VSauce, Michael here,' does an excellent video about..." 🤣🤣

@Marcel204_

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Vsauce!

i'm still not old, but time moves fast for me like it was 2020, and then now its 2023.

@Baukleben

2 ай бұрын

And now 2024

@edityt4379

2 ай бұрын

Now it's 2024😢

@teknosql4740

Ай бұрын

​Almost mid year just need 8 month to 2025​@@edityt4379

This is the same theory I had. Less new experiences and more routine tasks, makes it feel like you're on autopilot and time just flies by.

@zaca911

2 жыл бұрын

When you have things to do time goes. if you sit around and have nothing to do, time will go by real slow.

@feb5th

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaca911 not true. I had time to just sit around and do literal nothing yesterday. Still went by in a flash for me. I was sad.

@user-wi6bl4pb3r

3 ай бұрын

Having nothing to do will actually make time seem faster. Having novel experiences/doing things you’ve never done is what slows it down bc you have more memories of those events

@teknosql4740

Ай бұрын

That near true, i think internet make everything go fast, make everyone know something more then try to predict what happens in timeline and generate feeling "i have experience it no wonder about it" this feeling lead to automatic action that disable "prepared action and prepared feeling for first time experience in TIMELINE "

When I was 4, being told next year felt like a lifetime. Now I’m 21, I’ve lived 21 lifetimes

@inzanity490

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also only 21, and the 3 year gap between 2010 and 2013 felt so much longer than the 10 year gap between 2012 and now. I swear, my 2012 memories still feel fresh to me.

@Brontok

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also 21. With 13 I moved to Germany with my family and it feels like it was last year, when I see photos it's like I changed a lot but I'm still the same person, the years from 5 to 13 were waaaay longer than from 13 to 21 and I will be 22 soon but it's not that far away from my last birthday 😢

@gabrielposso179

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brontok I moved to the US when I was 14 and I still tell people sometimes I’v even here for three years, when it’s actually almost 7 years since I came

I felt like 2020 hasnt ended yet

The explanation I got was 1 year divided by your current age for how much of a chunk it is. 1 year is 1/5 when you're 5 or 20%, or 5% when you're 20, 2% when you're 50. So all the tiny 1 year chunks start feeling like they're passing by faster and faster as their chunks get smaller and smaller.

@WhatIsItToBurn

2 жыл бұрын

That's the explanation I like.

@agcons

2 жыл бұрын

I heard this decades ago and it made some sense. One year when I was five years old was an eternity; today it's an eye-blink.

@Gr8tBlueHeron

2 жыл бұрын

This is what I've always thought, too.

@octoboi

2 жыл бұрын

That doesn't really make since, since that would mean babies have life go infinitely fast.

@Gr8tBlueHeron

2 жыл бұрын

@@octoboi No dude, it's the opposite. When you're a baby, something that happened last week would seem like it happened forever ago, because if you're only a month old that happened a quarter of a lifetime ago. When you're 50, something happened last week and it feels like it just happened the other day. It's why when you're a kid summers feel like they last forever, but as an adult you blink and they're over.

My math teacher explained this decades ago. When you're 5 years old a Summer is 1/20th of your life. That is a big chunk. When you're 50, a Summer is 1/200th of your life. Much less new stuff to experience and much less to remember. Our brains automatically skip over stuff that we don't need to process, nor need to remember. Young and vigorous memories archived a lot new data. When you're older, you simply have much more archived data that simply isn't worth recalling, so those times have less memories and appear to be much shorter.

@KtotheG

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's all relative. The assumption in the question is that this feeling is linear, when it's not. When I was a kid, there were times in which it felt that time was moving fast. As a middle-aged adult, there are times in which time moves slow. I think it depends on how you live life.

As a 52 year old, can definitely say time flies faster now. I’m already 62. Wow! That was fast! Enjoy your trip guys. Look forward to to seeing your posts.

@imranharith8936

Жыл бұрын

From 16 to 26, yeah so fast. Even i couldn't enjoy my time with my mom.

@danielz1666

Жыл бұрын

Wow you turned 62 from 52 AS you were writing the comment? I imagine by now you must be somewhere past 72 then

@mightyelf2660

Жыл бұрын

Guys am too high for this shit 😂😂😂

my uncle is 78 and still travels, reads and learns. He still visits language classes to increase his ability to speak several languages. He also still has a long list of places he wants to visit. I believe this keeps the brain engaged and him young.

@piiinkDeluxe

Жыл бұрын

@Joseph thank you! 😊 In some aspects, his age is obvious, e.g. he forgets things sometimes, but he doesn't really let that discourage him. He still lives on his own and independently. And he has a cat.

@ryuavincaux

6 ай бұрын

i also want to live like this, i wanna experience new things and not just autopilot. i wanna feel this life again

@piiinkDeluxe

6 ай бұрын

@@ryuavincaux 💕 you could look for new experiences, even in the smallest ways. For example, take a different route to work, walk or bike more, cook something you have never eaten before, go to a new restaurant. If you have a bit of freetime you could go to a place you've never been before. Engage all senses consciously. That can be trained by asking yourself at any moment you have a little time: what 5 things do i see? You list 5 things you see. What 5 things can I hear? You list 5 things. What 5 things can I feel? You list 5 things (examples: the clothes on you, a breeze, the temperature, the ground underneath, hunger...). You ask yourself what you can smell? If 5 things are too much just try 3, or as many as you find. It's about learning to engage the senses, not the actual number. Best wishes 💕

@piiinkDeluxe

6 ай бұрын

@@JosephJ360 my uncle hust got back from Japan about a week ago, so I guess he's still vibing. 😄

Oof this is something that's always been on my mind lol. I thought it was just because as you grow up you get busier and have a lot more things to do so time never feels enough to get everything you have to do get done. But time is always really weird lol sometimes it seems to be going painfully slow other times it seems to be going so fast and then there's times when it seems to be going too fast and too slow at the same time if that even makes any sense

@chazzat3113

Жыл бұрын

Yes that makes alot of sence your right

You just gave me the best reason to try new things.

What I realized how time goes faster its because we dont experience new things in our life, like for example every morning once our chores are done you always stay at home sitting with your laptop or your phone, and after you use your gadgets u check the time its now 6 pm. But when we experience new things in our life like going on a trip, walking biking with your friends time seems slow. Thats how I discovered how I see the world. I always pray to God that time is longe enough for us to live in and I pray that there will be new experiences we can encounter. Because im afraid having no purpose in my life.

They really called it "Non-Fungible Planet" huh? That's the most KZread decision of all time.

My thought was that as you age, a year becomes a smaller portion of what you lived compared to when you were younger. 1 year was a 1/5th of your life when you were 5, so now that you're, say, 20, it's only 1/20th of your life 🥺😭

@LoveYouTooMan

2 жыл бұрын

That’s true.

@HoD999x

2 жыл бұрын

that's true but doesn't explain the effect

@cee8mee

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly how I see it. And I never feel like the return trip is shorter. If anything, I'm tired, just want to get back home, and the return takes forever.

@flexflex8950

2 жыл бұрын

came here to say this (yes i know the "this" comments are useless but who cares

@TheClimateChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Damnit I said this and you beat me to it. Wahhhhh

Growing up until I was 15 felt like a long time in my memory. Now I'm 31 and it feels like not that long ago when I was 15.

I do believe that, I've noticed myelf watch a video once, then watch it again. The second time around felt way shorter than the first, my theory was just something to do with me already having seen it. Guess this confirms that

Ever since college days have been going by so quickly. Days melt one into the other. Life is short.

You guys are so cute; thank you for always providing knowledge!

So that's why the trip back home is faster.

I also feel like the idea that we can only "value" things relative to other things, so each new year is proportionally shorter, so feels like it's a "smaller" unit of time When you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life, whereas now that I'm 30, it's 3%

The concept of time has always intrigued me; our perception of it too. I was born in 1982 and felt like WWII and the 60's were so long ago when I was a kid (because they were lifetimes (mine) away from the current day. Now I look back and think it was not so long ago as I am now as far away from my birth as my birth was from WWII.

To the Everest, so that when you walk back you will realize it wasn't that tall 🤣

Life during 5-18 years felt like doing every side quest before the final mission Life during 20s feels like speedrunning a game and missing all side quests every year , blink amd you miss it

I hate it because I keep getting anxious from it

I've always blamed basic math for the perceived relativity of time. When you tell a 5-year old she'll be starting first grade next year, you're in essence telling her about an event that will happen 20% of her lifetime from now. Fast forward to the same individual 45 years later, when she's fifty, and "next year" is only 2% of her lifetime away. Now scale this principal down a bit, and you suddenly realize why kids start shouting "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" 15 minutes into a road trip!

This makes me want to not just do the same stuff every week, but make new and exciting experiences. Otherwise, in no time I'll be 30 - *because* I experienced little - and I'll have just kind of procrastinated on experiencing stuff...

@DkKombo

2 жыл бұрын

Me too man

To celebrate the planet, we will be flying somewhere far away and burning lots of jet fuel!

@Rationalist101

2 жыл бұрын

Haha

Well no shit time going by so fast all I do is lay down and watch on my phone all day

my fav duo u guys are so cute and have such good vibes and energy

Moral of the story, do more things that are new, you will live longer

Love your vids have been a fan for years

In childhood, there's more leisure time. In adulthood, there's more work time. It also can seem to pass at different speeds according to situation. For example, in sickness or injury, the suffering time seems to drag by slowly; in health, the enjoying time seems to fly past quickly.

I've always wondered about that. I love you guys. Your energy always brightens my day.

Oh so this explains how MCU or any superhero movie that’s 2+ hours don’t feel long cuz I’m not seeing anything that I haven’t already.

the trip back home always feels longer for me, not shorter. Esp when its been 5 hours straight, that last hour feels like forever....

This is why a career in problem solving is beneficial. You have fun but it can take so long. You enjoy every minute and it doesn't feel faster. It's always something new. You end up forgetting how things work and deal with old problems like new.

Nerve (or brain) cells can not be created anew, divide themselves or be regenerated though. There's a finite amount of them which make up our nervous system and when they die, they die.

You both are such amazing people ♡ thank you for everything

So _that’s_ why, when cartoon characters go on an intense adventure, they don’t show the journey back… That’s puzzled me since childhood.

That makes total sense!

I’m excited for this trip 🌻

Thanks guys, I like this explanation! 😀

Omg I remember this guy.. I used to hear the periodic table song!! Memories ❤️

I remember going to the zoo when I was little. I thought it was a 2 hour drive. It's 10 minutes away from my house.

@chahem

2 жыл бұрын

lovely story

Time does not feel faster as I age. It goes by painfully slow.

@alpha_jasperflair1097

2 жыл бұрын

Your lucky my friend cuz time for me feels like only 30 minutes then its night again😔

@TLCinCA

2 жыл бұрын

I hate every single second of it,

@bruhifysbackup

22 күн бұрын

@@TLCinCA same but idk if the same happens to u 2 years later now.

Idk walking on a trail talked longer on the way back for me cuz I normally have to pee pretty bad and it takes forever. And last time I just "went" in the woods, I almost got attacked by deer. So I'm kinda scared to do that again

This also applies to movies! When you rewatch a movie and think there is a long stretchy segment ahead but then it goes by really fast.

also as a kid yoou ussually gets bored and feel like its taking an eternity but as you age you apreciate your time more there for it feels faster

I LOVE videos like this! 🤩

Been wondering about this since I graduated. Summers used to be SO LONG.

Thank you!

Time feels faster as you age because any given time unit becomes a smaller fraction of your life. When you are ten years old one year is 0.1 of your entire existence. When you are 50 years old one year becomes 0.02 of your life, thus less of a big deal. That is all the explanation you need.

Another good example is out first commute to a place (school, office etc) compared to our 2nd, 3rd, and so on

As a person from military I can assure you that the marching back same distance feels waaaay longer than the marching it the first time.

Also becoming a parent and celebrating my children’s birthdays, I can’t ignore the years. I’m much more aware of time.

I figured it was because I hated school and college. As soon as it was over, I started to enjoy my life a lot more, lol

That is a perfect excuse to experience new things on a weekly basis!

Im literally in love with them, there personalities and intelligence

I thought it's because as we get older spend more of our time taking care of more responsibilities

This isn't new information for me, but I've always wondered why time flies by faster after I wake up? It's mostly when I get ready for work, I feel like I have less time to get ready than I should

this explains why this covd time is going by so fast, ur seeing ur room for 1000 times in a row 😂

Hiking trips are the exact opposite for me the way back to the car always takes way longer

This is why when people said "lockdown felt like foreeeever!" I shake my head, because - since every day in lockdown was more or less the same - looking back, it's hard to imagine it has really been that long. I was freaking 3 YEARS younger (on paper) before the pandemic! 😂

@iceman5436

2 жыл бұрын

2 years younger

@BerndosMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@iceman5436 Yeah 2 actual years, but since my Birthday was between April and Pandemic outbreak, I was 3 years younger "on paper". *rethorical emphasis* 😆

that's the opposite of what happened to me, I went on a hike just last Saturday and the return trail which was the exact trail walked on and it felt like it was going on forever, I actually felt like stopping and just petting the dog

The only thing I get from this video is that I hate becoming old.🥺

Why does the first guy look like Karate Kid after the Karate Kid movies, but before Cobra Kai?

Because our human concept of time is multiplicative.

This guy has an answer for everything

About the hiking thing I have it the otherway around. I walk and walk and time flies by and when I go back I am like why did I walk this far and the way back feels longggg. I have this when I come back from a vacation too! The way to the destination (always in another country) feels faster than when I travel back home. A 9 hour flight feels like 2 days has passed while going to the destination 9 hours feels like 3 and I can explain why to me it feels this way. It's simply because the vacation is over, there is nothing exciting looking forward to except for hugging my cat and sleeping in my own bed. No more new adventures, free time, no obligations and touristy things and such. Just back to normal!

i feel like it’s the opposite when talking about how time speed up during stimulation

You kinda missed the obvious - the older you get, a year becomes a smaller and smaller fraction of your lived life, so it feels like it goes by quicker.

I dunno, my time seems to be passing at the same speed as when i was younger. Been some looooong days this winter..

Wow what great science ..nothing but hot air

Makes sense why maths class goes so slow..

My theory is that we acclimate to time the same way we do to other things… like when you listen to music you gradually increase the volume until you’re used to it being loud but if you forget to turn it down the next time you turn the car on it blasts you a cardiac infarction

I've heard that you can effect this by intentionally looking for new things and being fully engaged around you. In the hiking example, take time to notice the things you didn't. Flowers, mushrooms, what types of trees there are, sounds, birds etc.

Lol the dude in the back is hilarious

I always kinda thought it was because the longer you've lived, the less significant short periods of time are. Like 5 years to a 5 year old is literally a lifetime, but to a 50 year old it's a tenth of a lifetime

I always thought it was because our perception of time is relative to how long we've lived. I noticed time seemed to go faster at the end of high school, and got this theory: one school year seemed super long when I was a child, because at, say, 6 years old, one year was 1/6 of my entire life. But as an 18 year old one year is only 1/18 of my life. So it seems less long in comparison to everything else I've already lived through.

As soon as I turned 13 life has gone by more quick for some reason

@didforlove

Жыл бұрын

it goes fast after 25

@zulqarnainhaider4739

Жыл бұрын

​@@didforlove i m 25

The trip sounds fun!

I'm so excited for that mystery tour of yours

Thanks for the info legends Peace

Another theory I’ve heard is that as your age your refresh rate goes slower, therefore you experience time a lot faster than younger people.

The older you get the more time you have lived to compare it to. When you turn 10 years old the 365 days between you turning 9 into 10 represents 1/10th of you life. When you turn 100 years old the 365 days between 99 into 100 represents 1/100th of your life.

“Speaking of new experiences we are about to have a WILD one” 🤨

Im Only eleven and time goes so fast now:(

Time is the measure of change between a relative constant and a variable that it is measured against. The more change you put in a bucket in a day seems like we had more day. It seems to me like everyday seems like about half my life as opposed to all the days before if I stop to remember today and all the days before because I remember more of today. Has anyone said that getting married doesn't mean you live longer, it just feels longer. I don't know what that's about I've never been married...

Relativity. When you are 10, one year of your life is ¹/¹⁰ but when you're 60, one year of your life is ¹/⁶⁰.

Who else just had an "Aha Moment" when they talked about hiking?

I'm 60, and this last winter was one of the slowest I've experienced.

Wow, now I know why time seems to go by so fast. I've always wondered why time just went by so slow when I was little and now the time and years just fly by.

Well sometimes when you hike back you feel you came way too far and way too exhausted to return; and consider settling down on the spot 😄

Time is literally relative 1 day is relatively long to a child in relation to the length they have been alive, as is 1 year. This ratio drastically reduces as you age in terms of the ratio of time that is passing, as opposed to the ratio of memories stored which relates to the time that has already passed

When I did some volunteering back then, they sent me to some rural place far from access, the first week feels like a month, then it speed up. You want the time move slower? Explore new places!

Bros off brand Daniel LaRusso from the cobra Kai show

oOoh. another one where supplementary reading would fun😇 (don’t get me wrong, imma go scour sum databases but its nice to be lazy sometimes, yknow? plus, im sure we’re all familiar w the obligatory sifting that comes along as part of the process 😅🥴, soo 🤪)