Monday 24 may 2022The feeling yesterday was only Sunday, why is it Saturday again?” Have you ever mumbled like that in your heart? Means you feel if time is running so fast. Especially when you get older, it's different from when you were a child, time doesn't go as fast as it is now.
To the extent that you used to feel it took a long time for the holidays to arrive and the length of waiting for the next birthday. As you get older, you feel that time is passing quickly. Actually, is there a scientific explanation for this?
The older you get, the more you feel that time goes by so fast. In fact, of course we all agree that time can not go faster or slower. The passage of time is something that is fixed and certain.
However, why do we feel that time flies as adults? Apparently, researchers have found two powerful theories that can explain why as we get older we feel like time is running.
Everyone has a system to regulate all body functions. This system is regulated by a person's biological clock. The biological clock itself is controlled by the central nervous system or brain.
In children's biological clock, they do more physical activity during a certain time. As a result, children's heart rates and breaths are higher than that of adults in a minute.
Meanwhile, because the biological clock of adults is more relaxed, you also feel the time is passing quickly. For example, in a minute a child's heart beats 150 times. While for adults only beat 75 times in one minute.
This means that it takes adults 2 minutes to reach the same number of heartbeats as when you were a child. So even though it's been two minutes, the brain thinks it's still a minute because it only took you a minute to reach 150 heartbeats.
Get used to the environment
As a child, the surrounding environment is a place to explore and get to know everything that is new for children. It seems, there are new things that are encountered every day and you are free to do whatever.
However, as an adult, the world seems so predictable. The routine goes on as usual and keeps repeating itself. You know you have to go to school, find a job, build a relationship, until it's time to retire.
Well, apparently this has to do with memory. When receiving new information in childhood, the brain will process it harder to eventually store it in memory.
This process of course takes time and energy so it feels like a very long time at that time. As you enter your 20s, you may rarely receive completely new information, so things work out the way you know them and make time seem to go by fast.
So, that's the scientific explanation for why you feel like time is moving so fast that you feel like you're pressed for time.
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