Do you think the years go rushing on too quickly?

I had a boyfriend who used to try to get me to think about events in terms of the year they occurred so as not to have the problems of forgetting--but I just never could get the knack of doing it. Like a lot of people mentioned, I say something happened 5 years ago, then when I really figure it out it turns out to be 20-plus years.

My brain is breaking just thinking about this subject. I sometimes feel like time is flying compared to the long past. But sometimes I feel like, at 79 I've been old forever.
 

I often remember things that happen in the past. Think about when and then with a little research find I am off by 5 or more years. I suspect it is normal for all of us. Life seems so short as they say, yet when you look at your past, pictures, videos etc you are amazed at the years that have past. Most days in our lives are mundane. Wake, eat, go to work, come home, eat dinner. Watch favorite shows then go to bed.
We forget most of this. We remember the special occasions, the vacations and the extraordinary times that stay in our memories. We just don't remember the everyday lives that we live. I tend to think that we compress history to those special times. Hence, life seems short, or at least the perception is that life is short. Life is short to which I agree but our lives are full and we wish that it would go on forever.
However, our ages tell us otherwise. It's normal. We all feel the same. The reality is that we can't hide, we can't make it go away and we can't make it stop. We have to accept.
just my opinion
bob
 
For those that have taken hallucinogens, the perception of time moves more slowly, the more so expanded, the more seeming so. However, while affected so, one only is aware that is the case after some time has passed and then one looks at a clock, only to be surprised to find much less time passed than what it mentally seemed. In other words, perception feels normal and not like watching a slow motion film.

If expanded so while actively participating in a sport, it is also possible to perform as though one has modestly more time to both perceive and react even though other negative effects may result in no advantage unless one has trained to overcome negative effects. Note, supposed research will tend to state the opposite that is more about publicly discouraging there are any such advantages. At the same, they will ban whatever as cheating that shows they actually know otherwise.

The same mental phenomenon can occur while sleep dreaming. While say one is sleepy while watching a tv program, one may briefly nod off, and then wake up ten minutes later (from a loud commercial), and wonder why the dream seemed to have been a much longer episode of whatever that in the dream seemed to be moving along at a normal rate?

The above indicates the perception of time passage is neural system based. Accordingly, that is likely why as we age, time awareness moment to moment doesn't seem to be moving along any faster than when we were younger while when one checks how many years have passed, it seems to be accelerating.
 
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Of course there's eternity, it's all around you. How can the universe have an end, geographically?
Who knows? There is no strong scientific consensus about it. Some think the universe is expanding, but others say it's possible for it to begin retracting back into another singularity. If time began with the initial expansion, it will likely end when the universe expires. If you believe that time existed before the singularity, you are using intuition, and I won't argue about it, which is why I qualified eternity in such a way that the it leaves the question open to more investigation. But it's just as possible that you are right. Hang in there. In billions of years, the question may be answered with more certainty.
 
The other day..and this happens often now... I was recalling a significant event in my life, and I said it happened roughly 5 or 6 years ago... but in actual fact transpired it happened 20 years ago... I was stunned. I was just thinking, that past 20 years went like lightening... the next 20 years if I am to live to see it will go even faster if it;s at all possible.. and that's really scary! :eek:
Really scary. I have thought about the same things. Where did the time go? Time is like a flash sometimes. Who you were and what you are now took time. But what happen between those memories and now??? If you have an answer please share.
 
For those that have taken hallucinogens, the perception of time moves more slowly, the more so expanded, the more seeming so. However, while affected so, one only is aware that is the case after some time has passed and then one looks at a clock, only to be surprised to find much less time passed than what it mentally seemed. In other words, perception feels normal and not like watching a slow motion film.

If expanded so while actively participating in a sport, it is also possible to perform as though one has modestly more time to both perceive and react even though other negative effects may result in no advantage unless one has trained to overcome negative effects. Note, supposed research will tend to state the opposite that is more about publicly discouraging there are any such advantages. At the same, they will ban whatever as cheating that shows they actually know otherwise.

The same mental phenomenon can occur while sleep dreaming. While say one is sleepy while watching a tv program, one may briefly nod off, and then wake up ten minutes later (from a loud commercial), and wonder why the dream seemed to have been a much longer episode of whatever that in the dream seemed to be moving along at a normal rate?

The above indicates the perception of time passage is neural system based. Accordingly, that is likely why as we age, time awareness moment to moment doesn't seem to be moving along any faster than when we were younger while when one checks how many years have passed, it seems to be accelerating.
I appreciate what you are saying but...........there is a difference between your memory and the reality of your day. Every day....today. Memory can't be grasped. Today can be understood. What is real? Today or yesterday or 10 years ago? existentialism was suppose to explain these things but I do not think they did.
 
I'm finding time going fast too, I can't believe I've been retired 3 and a half years already. But scarier is that the time remaining feels so short, and the end seems a lot more real. This past month two people from YouTube channels that I watch have died (Bob from 'Bob and Brad' and the husband from the Canadian couple with the 'This is Our Retirement' channel).
 
I'm finding time going fast too, I can't believe I've been retired 3 and a half years already. But scarier is that the time remaining feels so short, and the end seems a lot more real. This past month two people from YouTube channels that I watch have died (Bob from 'Bob and Brad' and the husband from the Canadian couple with the 'This is Our Retirement' channel).
I knew Bob & Brad..I've been subscribed to them for years... a big shock when Bob died....especially as he was only 65..

Don't know the other channel you speak of... however we've got to expect this type of thing if we're watching older people
 
The above indicates the perception of time passage is neural system based. Accordingly, that is likely why as we age, time awareness moment to moment doesn't seem to be moving along any faster than when we were younger while when one checks how many years have passed, it seems to be accelerating.
This got me thinking about the phenomenon of anesthesia.

"Count slowly backwards from 10."
You don't even make it to 7,
And you are seemingly still conscious.
"OK, so when are you going to start the operation?"
"Sir, you've been under the knife for 9 hours.
You're going to live."
"No, I counted back from 10 just a couple of seconds ago."
 

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