The end of the school year brought me another year closer to my eventual rotting in the soil. Yet as I slowly observe myself around me, I slowly see how I still feel like I'm in middle school, even though I'm finishing my sophomore year in high school. I constantly feel that years fly by and I am constantly trying to keep with myself.
So here I am, standing before you (hopefully) and I am about write a research paper on time perspective, which I am calling the Time-Line Condenser. It is about how life starts off slowly, and gradually, you feel that time is going faster and faster. So the poll that I posted is saying what parts of life seem to start going fast?
Time goes faster if you're near greater gravitational pulls, so it would make sense that time is going by quickly for you if you are around your mother a lot.
Time goes faster if you're having fun. Maybe you're just having a lot of fun?
Anyways, I'd say it's fair to say that as our brains age and change so can our perception of time. Personally, I noticed a major change in the way time passes as soon as I was out of High School. I used to think my life went fast back then. I had no idea. Now I find myself coming up on a year of working at my current job and it feels like three months.
Anyways, I'd say it's fair to say that as our brains age and change so can our perception of time. Personally, I noticed a major change in the way time passes as soon as I was out of High School. I used to think my life went fast back then. I had no idea. Now I find myself coming up on a year of working at my current job and it feels like three months.
Yeah life is weird. This year went by so fast. I honestly still feel like a freshman even though I'm about to be a junior.
Hey can you add a poll to this. Maybe have it multiple choice and the things can be "Pre- High School", "High school", "College", "Working Days", "Raising kid(s)", "The old days". Have the question be "When does life seem to by the fastest?
Where is the option: 'Skydiving without the parachute'?
@Inter
Yes indeed- He holds the secret to immortality. After Huck's sex change experimentation went awfully wrong, he found himself with new powers instead of a new gender.
There you are- the script for a superhero movie. Some nice effects and we could easily rack in some 7 digit figures in dollars.
Yea, wait till your first year of college is over. I mean, right after highschool I was like "Wow...that went by so fast" then next thing I know I'm already done with my first year of college and haven't visited certain family in more than 2 years but it only felt like half the time.
But, at the same time, I think it's just a social expectation. We hear that time speeds up or w/e but I don't think thats it. I feel that life was far more stagnant prior to highschool and I couldn't wait for it to go by. But once you become so busy, you stop thinking about time and forget that it's even passing.
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-Equinox
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In my opnion our time perseption is based at our memories. The more memories we have, better we can constitute the timed passed by in our brain.
But when we start to live repetitive days, our brain automatically start to save memories in deeper parts of our brains (the brain save memories as information for us to better choose good decisions in the future. When all info he gets is almost the same he gradually start to save it in deeper areas, so we can access more meanfull info faster and usng less energy).When we try to remenber all the events that occur in those repetitive days we have a harder access to those memories, poorly constituting the time passed, giving the impression that it went to fast.
It's like, if you pass one week doing the same thing over and over, in the future, when you try to remeber that week you will only remenber a few minutes (or even seconds), not the whole week, creating a hole in your time perpective.
This doesn't apply to recent memories. When we do same thing over and over we get bored, and when we get bored our time perpective has the oposite effect! Trying to remenber a boring day will overstemate your time perpective if you still feeling the effects of that bad day. When this effect pass, the time perpective will be compressed. Maybe this is also a mechanism to keep our minds free of boring and repetitive memories.
This is the reason why i voted on working day. Really, i started to work last year and things are out of control..
In my opnion our time perseption is based at our memories. The more memories we have, better we can constitute the timed passed by in our brain.
But when we start to live repetitive days, our brain automatically start to save memories in deeper parts of our brains (the brain save memories as information for us to better choose good decisions in the future. When all info he gets is almost the same he gradually start to save it in deeper areas, so we can access more meanfull info faster and usng less energy).When we try to remenber all the events that occur in those repetitive days we have a harder access to those memories, poorly constituting the time passed, giving the impression that it went to fast.
It's like, if you pass one week doing the same thing over and over, in the future, when you try to remeber that week you will only remenber a few minutes (or even seconds), not the whole week, creating a hole in your time perpective.
This doesn't apply to recent memories. When we do same thing over and over we get bored, and when we get bored our time perpective has the oposite effect! Trying to remenber a boring day will overstemate your time perpective if you still feeling the effects of that bad day. When this effect pass, the time perpective will be compressed. Maybe this is also a mechanism to keep our minds free of boring and repetitive memories.
This is the reason why i voted on working day. Really, i started to work last year and things are out of control..
That's a good way to look at it. I always thought that memories and imagination is what defines mankind. Yet I don't the week thing you said. How does remembering one minute make it seem shorter?
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So here I am, standing before you (hopefully) and I am about write a research paper on time perspective, which I am calling the Time-Line Condenser. It is about how life starts off slowly, and gradually, you feel that time is going faster and faster. So the poll that I posted is saying what parts of life seem to start going fast?
Edit: Wtf just happened. My poll is gone?
Time goes faster if you're near greater gravitational pulls, so it would make sense that time is going by quickly for you if you are around your mother a lot.Time goes faster if you're having fun. Maybe you're just having a lot of fun?
Wow man. You gotta chill out a bit.
Anyways, I'd say it's fair to say that as our brains age and change so can our perception of time. Personally, I noticed a major change in the way time passes as soon as I was out of High School. I used to think my life went fast back then. I had no idea. Now I find myself coming up on a year of working at my current job and it feels like three months.
Yeah life is weird. This year went by so fast. I honestly still feel like a freshman even though I'm about to be a junior.
Hey can you add a poll to this. Maybe have it multiple choice and the things can be "Pre- High School", "High school", "College", "Working Days", "Raising kid(s)", "The old days". Have the question be "When does life seem to by the fastest?
If you can do that it would be very helpful.
And Huck, you're not funny.
@Inter
Yes indeed- He holds the secret to immortality. After Huck's sex change experimentation went awfully wrong, he found himself with new powers instead of a new gender.
There you are- the script for a superhero movie. Some nice effects and we could easily rack in some 7 digit figures in dollars.
But, at the same time, I think it's just a social expectation. We hear that time speeds up or w/e but I don't think thats it. I feel that life was far more stagnant prior to highschool and I couldn't wait for it to go by. But once you become so busy, you stop thinking about time and forget that it's even passing.
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
But when we start to live repetitive days, our brain automatically start to save memories in deeper parts of our brains (the brain save memories as information for us to better choose good decisions in the future. When all info he gets is almost the same he gradually start to save it in deeper areas, so we can access more meanfull info faster and usng less energy).When we try to remenber all the events that occur in those repetitive days we have a harder access to those memories, poorly constituting the time passed, giving the impression that it went to fast.
It's like, if you pass one week doing the same thing over and over, in the future, when you try to remeber that week you will only remenber a few minutes (or even seconds), not the whole week, creating a hole in your time perpective.
This doesn't apply to recent memories. When we do same thing over and over we get bored, and when we get bored our time perpective has the oposite effect! Trying to remenber a boring day will overstemate your time perpective if you still feeling the effects of that bad day. When this effect pass, the time perpective will be compressed. Maybe this is also a mechanism to keep our minds free of boring and repetitive memories.
This is the reason why i voted on working day. Really, i started to work last year and things are out of control..
That's a good way to look at it. I always thought that memories and imagination is what defines mankind. Yet I don't the week thing you said. How does remembering one minute make it seem shorter?