Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)
I have an alternative (although unproven) theory.<p>I have been practicing meditation for 15 years, sometimes in batch of 100 hours.<p>The more I practice, the more the time slows down. Not just while meditating, but after the fact as well. Although it fluctuates and I&#x27;m not back to my kid self, it feels that I have tremendously more time now than a few years ago.<p>I suspect that it&#x27;s tied to how much present you manage to be.<p>When you are a kid, you are deeply immersed in whatever you are doing, and less and less so after that, especially in our age of distractions, multitasking, and intellectual work loads.<p>I think that the more you are immersed in the daily boring stuff, like just walking, doing chores, or taking your shower, the more you register the time you spend doing said activity, and the time seems to pass slowly.<p>In fact, I am sometimes under the impression my minutes, not just feel longer, but actually contain more, because I do so many things and then looking at the clock, it hasn&#x27;t moved much. This sensation increases when I meditate a lot.