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The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis

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55 points rzk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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esafak ◴[22 Oct 25 16:47 UTC] No.45671824[source]▶
If nothing is going on in your life, it is as the article says. However, if you experience novel and memorable stimuli, good or bad, time dilates. Traumatic experiences are particularly memorable because the brain wants to make sure you learn your lesson. It is a consequence of the brain's compressive learning algorithm, discarding the familiar and making sense of the new.
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1. holyknight ◴[22 Oct 25 18:30 UTC] No.45673242[source]▶
Yeah, this is a the answer. Our brain only remembers novelty, our firsts years and even decades are plagued by it. But after you are already 5 or 10 years onto your "adult" life you basically do exactly the same each day. 80% of what we do in our daily life as adults is not memorable at all and get completely ignored by our long-term perception. In short, it feels like the time flies because you did only 2 or 3 memorable things in the whole year.