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    Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age

    Veritasium

    4 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2020–2024

    YouTube

    7:41 · 8M views · Feb 10, 2016

    Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.

    Cited in threads about perceived time as a good, detailed explanation of the effect.

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    5 comments from Hacker News

    1. @activatedgeekAug 2024· in “Perceived Age”

      This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested. [1]: this video (2016)

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    2. @cornstalksNov 2021· in “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”

      That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: this video

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    3. @hudixtOct 2020· in “Ask HN: As I get older, I see seconds tick physically faster. Am I alone?”

      Here's the video from Veritasium around same topic this video Video explains it in detail about why this happens.

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    4. @shmdeNov 2021· in “Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)”

      There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" this video

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    5. @mortehuMar 2023· in “Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf]”

      Veritasium has a video about this subject: this video It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.

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