Age And "Time"

[Menna]

I have always wondered about this and talk to my friends/parents about it but no one can give me an answer that makes sense.

Why as we get older does time seem to go by faster? I remember when I was a kid the years didn't seem to go by as fast as they do now.

 

[Buddy]

I have always wondered about this and talk to my friends/parents about it but no one can give me an answer that makes sense.

Why as we get older does time seem to go by faster? I remember when I was a kid the years didn't seem to go by as fast as they do now.

Maybe one reason is that the older we get the more we look back for some reason(s)?

Have you ever noticed what feelings you bring back with you after looking over your shoulder like that?

 

[ROEL]

Why as we get older does time seem to go by faster? I remember when I was a kid the years didn't seem to go by as fast as they do now.

My theory is that we vibrate at a higher rate when we are "new", and therefore we take in impressions at a very speedy pace. If so, more "events" per unit of time seem to make time "long", whereas when we become slower (older), we feel that few things happen per unit of time, thus creating the illusion that time now flies, or is "short".

 

[SeekinTruth]

Another way of looking at it is to think of it as being relative. At the age of 1, 1 year is a lifetime. At the age of 10, 1 year is 1/10 of your lifetime. At the age of 50, 1 year is 1/50 of your lifetime, and so on. So, relativity makes it seem like "time" goes faster as you get older?

 

[Mikey]

Why as we get older does time seem to go by faster? I remember when I was a kid the years didn't seem to go by as fast as they do now.

My theory is that we vibrate at a higher rate when we are "new", and therefore we take in impressions at a very speedy pace. If so, more "events" per unit of time seem to make time "long", whereas when we become slower (older), we feel that few things happen per unit of time, thus creating the illusion that time now flies, or is "short".

It may well be that it has something to do with the 'quickness' of the overall nervous system.

 

[melatonin]

I wonder if its because we are born with a residual awareness that we have had past lifes, and as we grow up we forget this, and in the end we forget we even knew it in the first place.

 

[Kindle]

I think time itself-is running out of time

Time maybe ceasing to exist.

With the Wave coming 'time' not really existing, The Wave may be bridging the time gap between the Wave-which is reality (or a reality where there is no time) and 'Us' which has time, and the closer The Wave gets, the less time we seem to have, so time is seaming to get faster and faster OR should I say-less and less time.

Like when a stone is dropped into a pool of still water, it creates ripples going outwards, and in between these ripples are spaces, and the spaces get closer and closer, smaller and smaller and these spaces represent 'time'. This is how I see it in my mind.

I could be wrong. But it is fun thinking :D

Sorry my grammar sucks.

 

[loreta]

Maybe because we live more intensely? When you focus on something times fly. When you have fun and you are not distracted, times fly.

It can be also that the modern life, and this system of life in Occident, distract us and we are like in a spiral of facts, emotions, situations external to us that give us the impression that times fly. We are aware of the notion of "time", of the days and years that pass around us. People we know start to die, because they are old, etc. But time is relative. If you are in plain nature, one afternoon, surrounded by birds and the wind, times stop. In fact when we are present, really present, time does not exist.

 

[luc]

One aspect might be that the control system literally "steals our time", both in a direct way (overwhelming people with duties) and in an indirect way: ponerizing our thoughts to the point where we are not able to "live the creativity in the moment" anymore, as children do, or "see with our soul". That would lead to our present moment being empty, lifeless, because all experience of creative energy is denied. Thus our time becomes less intense and basically meaningless, so we percieve it to be "less".

Again, Momo (see this thread) comes to mind. In the book, the "grey men" feed on mankind by stealing their time. As one could understand it, the grey men represent the psychopaths/4D STS control system and they steal our time by making us believe lies that prevent us from experiencing love/creativity, thus stealing our "soul energy", which we then percieve - together with other negative feelings - as a sensation that we "have no time", or that "time flies by".

Just some thoughts, fwiw.

 

[manitoban]

I have always wondered about this and talk to my friends/parents about it but no one can give me an answer that makes sense.

Why as we get older does time seem to go by faster? I remember when I was a kid the years didn't seem to go by as fast as they do now.

Lots of interesting ideas posted here. I'm thinking along the same line as others, that when we are kids we live more in the moment, experiencing our life in the now more fully. As adults though, we tend to spend much of our thought and energy either reliving the past or anticipating the future so we are not in the moment as much and maybe that makes time seem to go by faster?

 

[pstott]

Time as we perceive it is apparently subjective. When waiting for something the time can seem to stretch out forever - you look at the clock after what seems to be ages and find that only minutes have passed.

On the other hand if you are immersed in activities that you enjoy the day may seem to fly by and be gone before you know it.

As we grow older we move more slowly and things take longer to accomplish. Also when you are 50 a day is just a small fraction of your total life experience, whereas when you are 5 it is a much larger fraction.

It appears to me that the speeding up of time with age is a subjective experience and not because of any actual acceleration. However, that being said, in these latter days before the advent of the wave there actually may be some time compression going on. If this is the case then people of all ages should be feeling it.

 

[Mrs. Peel]

With the Wave coming 'time' not really existing, The Wave may be bridging the time gap between the Wave-which is reality (or a reality where there is no time) and 'Us' which has time, and the closer The Wave gets, the less time we seem to have, so time is seaming to get faster and faster OR should I say-less and less time.

I think time is flying by faster than ever. The weeks seem to just zip past. I'm thinking lately it could have something to do with the coming of the Wave. Also there are days when riding in the car, we seem to be crawling along instead of going 40-45 mph. Everything seems to be in slow motion.

 

[Esote]

Another way of looking at it is to think of it as being relative. At the age of 1, 1 year is a lifetime. At the age of 10, 1 year is 1/10 of your lifetime. At the age of 50, 1 year is 1/50 of your lifetime, and so on. So, relativity makes it seem like "time" goes faster as you get older?

I guess this is pretty accurate.
The more experience we have, the quickest our brains interact with the situations we are living in.
And our subjective time seems to be moving faster, osit...

 

[Jones]

I wonder if it has to do with anticipation.

As a kid I 'couldn't wait' for the weekend, christmas, lunch bell, or birthday and they seemed to take forever.

Now I don't give much thought to those things, they don't seem so important or hold as much appeal and they creep up before I'm ready LOL!

 

[Sirius]

It depends also upon one's activity. There are activities that tend to “steal” one's ability to perceive the passage of time. For example, mind-distracting things like TV, computer screens and the like; perhaps stress, too.

Isn't it the case that one experiences time of half length during hypnosis? There is no perception of time during sleep at all.
That could imply it's all about one's focus, awareness and granularity of perception, i.e. (a) matter of mind.

However, the Cs mentioned briefly the effect of aging with respect to time perception:

Q: (L) Now, my memory for dates and times has always been, at best, a little vague. But, lately, it has been really bad. What is the cause of this loss of ability to keep a sequential record of what one does, who one sees, etc? It is really strange.

A: It is not strange. As one “ages” the illusion of time passage begins to deteriorate because your “higher mind” begins to understand the illusion.