Time is faster as you age, no?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

II've come to the conclusion that the reason the years seem to go by much faster when you get older, is that all the common experiences, the chores, food preparation, buying gas, run-of-the-mill work days, endless patrolling of the Pacific Ocean , sex with the wife , get file compacted into one experience, and that time is lost from your perceptual timeline making the year seem shorter.

That seems to be how my brain works, but what of those who can remember everything?

It's the same. This seems to be a common assumption for why it happens, and is probably true.

However, when I made the same pitch to my dad way back when I was twenty-one, he said "No, that's not it at all. It's simple - once you get over the hill you pick up speed going down the other side!"