Why each year seems to disappear quickly than the last??

[jericho]

Interesting theory but for me its always have been about my mood. If I am relaxing and happy, time is usually fast, but when I am depressed or having a bad time, time is extremely slow

 

[hunter_hunted]

Interesting theory but for me its always have been about my mood. If I am relaxing and happy, time is usually fast, but when I am depressed or having a bad time, time is extremely slow

From now on I will try to be miserable, depressed and pathetic so that time pass slowly.

 

[Levina]

From now on I will try to be miserable, depressed and pathetic so that time pass slowly.

I'm sure you do know the side effects of remaining miserable and depressed for long.

 

[-1o1-]

Time goes faster as you get older

 

[hunter_hunted]

I'm sure you do know the side effects of remaining miserable and depressed for long.

Yes, Also planning to listen to lots of lots of Dukhi songs. In fact i already started to feel blue

 

[zip]

Its how you perceive it!!!
It moves fast at times and at times slow,like the way it is explained in theory of relativity.

By greater do you mean it feels longer or shorter??

Okay!!
you mean the day I'll be dead??

Qayamat right?

When you do routine work time will run like anything because there is no new experience to your brain and memory part is not very active ..If you reside in your iwn home then go to other new city you feel a lenthier day because your mind is active for new things and memorising it for future use ..If you are working outside then when you go to native time again starts to move slowly because of hectic activity of brain ...Onething to consider is if days are running faster then lesser you are using your brain

 

[osama zafar]

oh brain........

 

[EasyNow]

Well there's a theory that time seems shorter as we get older because our perception of time is relative to how much time we have lived.

Eg. For a 2 year old, 1 year is half of his life - it seems like a huge amount to him.

But to a 50 year old, 1 year is a 50th of what they have seen and it seems much smaller in perspective.

So I suppose if you want life to feel longer, lose your memory like Amir Khan and every day will feel like a long new experience!

So tell me, sahi bola?

 

[jamahir]

"When you sit with a girl for an hour,it seems as if a minute has passed and when you sit with your hands on a heater for a minute it seems as if an hour has passed"...or something to that effect.

i have a different version of that... i want that to happen in a garden with lemon trees and jasmine trees... with my head in my lady love's lap... both of us under a lemon tree... with warm afternoon sun dappling on us... with my legs warmed by the sun... my face partly warmed... she singing softly and slowly... just-audible tinkles of the kora instrument... and cats in the garden, sleeping or playing...

i think time will have no meaning...

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1. i don't think any animal ( including humans ) has a twenty-four-hour biological clock... time-keeping is just a social arrangement... but certainly, animals have a rest period.

2. the article and people on this thread are correct on social situations and worries affecting time... either making time seem long or "time files".

3. most people in their sixties in the present world consider themselves "retired", so they allow themselves to sleep more in the day which in turn makes them more tired, so they sleep... and that makes them think that days, months and years pass quickly.

4. i wonder about time in the scandinavia ( and alaska and polar russia ) region where for some months ( ?? ), sun doesn't set or it is all darkness... i have heard people there get depressed because of no sunlight, and many use artificial bright lights as substitute for sun... @Götterdämmerung @senheiser @TruthSeeker @vostok any such experiences??

5. the concept of "day" and "season" varies from world to world, depending on distance from their star ( sun ) and the rate of their own rotation ( if ever )... example, mars has its day a bit longer than on earth... more or less 40 minutes, if i remember correctly.

6. the invention of the telephone has made most people more impatient, so they want everything to happen instantly... so their professional days have lot more activity than before telephone... this is different to writers or inventors or innovators whose day can be spent thinking about a single idea or many ideas connecting to that single idea, which will make the day seem shorter hence giving rise to the phrase "days passed, un-noticed in the haze of ideas", or some such...

7. i don't believe in einstein's theory that "moving close to speed of light will make us remain the same age as when we started, while those back on earth will age normally"... i don't believe in such pompous wording like "bending the space-time continuum"... these are all mathematical constructs and should not be taken seriously in the real universe.

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the above seven points are just what came randomly... i hope they make sense...

 

[Levina]

1. i don't think any animal ( including humans ) has a twenty-four-hour biological clock... time-keeping is just a social arrangement... but certainly, animals have a rest period.

No.I think there's a biological clock which keeps ticking inside us all the time.
We sense time from the direction of sun on day to day basis and then when it comes to year,the seasons give us a sense of time that has passed...and may be the full moons too.And ergo the idioms like many moons ago, once in a blue moon etc.

 

[RKO]

cuz....I sleep too much!!!

 

[B+ Dracula]

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until (religious) knowledge will be taken away (by the death of religious learned men), earthquakes will be very frequent, time will pass quickly, afflictions will appear, murders will increase and money will overflow amongst you." (See Hadith No. 85 Vol 1). (Book #17, Hadith #146)

From Sahih bukhari
Narrated Abu Huraira(rz)
The Prophet(s.a.s) said, "The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until
1. (religious) knowledge will be taken away (by the death of religious learned men),
2. earthquakes will be very frequent,
3. time will pass quickly,
4. afflictions will appear,
5. murders will increase and
6. money will overflow amongst you." (bukhari)

A Narrated Anas ibn Malik (rz)
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "The last hour will not come before time contracts, a year being like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the kindling of a fire."

Narrated Anas(rz):
Allah's Apostle (s.a.s) said, "From among the portents of the Hour are (the following):
−1. Religious knowledge will be taken away (by the death of Religious learned men).
−2. (Religious) ignorance will prevail.
−3. Drinking of Alcoholic drinks (will be very common).
−4. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse. (bukhari)


When Time Moves Faster

 

[T90TankGuy]

@levina
The other day my son was complaining "Why exams are coming so fast?".

But then in another example when you wait for someone in his house for your money then the times seems longer.

For @Skull and Bones time seems longer for he want to finish his PhD quickly and earn lots of money to buy a Ferrari for his Italian GF, but time seems to elude him.............

Have you noticed while going from point A to Point B and returning back to Point A at the same speed, the return trip seems quick.

Thought of impending death puts the thought in older peoples mind that time is moving fast!!............

I have to ask you this , how old are you mate?

 

[jamahir]

No.I think there's a biological clock which keeps ticking inside us all the time.

i had meant "we don't have clock fixed to 24 hour day"... and you are correct... but i think we have a distributed clock mechanism, not one single component called "clock", that is i think related to aging and food intake, because people also do night-shifts at their employment places ( like call centers and factories ) and i have gone without sleep for three days a few times when i was writing my operating system in 2002.

We sense time from the direction of sun on day to day basis and then when it comes to year,the seasons give us a sense of time that has passed...and may be the full moons too.And ergo the idioms like many moons ago, once in a blue moon etc.

yes, those two idioms apply to much of the world, but the north polar regions have a different environment... from ( There will be darkness: Polar nights in Murmansk | Russia Beyond The Headlines ), i quote...

"“No one likes the polar nights: when it’s dark you just want to sleep all the time. But then, during the polar days, by the time you want to go to sleep the new day has begun. And, actually, you get used to it. Humans can get used to anything…” says Tatiana, director of School No. 7 in the village of Korzunovo in Murmansk Oblast."

"Doctors estimate that the polar night interferes with the function of the human body, due to the lack of ultra-violet light and vitamins. Many people from the North become depressed and lethargic around this time of year."

"During the polar night, Murmansk schools are open for a shorter time. In some educational establishments lessons start later than usual and are shortened. In kindergartens children are given vitamins and made to do strengthening exercises."

the polar-night month was feature in the film "30 days of night", if you remember.

strange lands, the north polar region... their days without normal sun... sometimes total dark and sometimes lighting like evenings...

 

[SledgeHammer]

Why each passing year seems to disappear quickly than the last?

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For most people, each passing month of their lives seems to feel shorter than the previous. Many of us can’t believe that stores are already starting to display Christmas products, and if you’re writing a check, you might still catch yourself writing 2013 when 2014 is nearly over.

All clocks follow the same 12 hour / 60 minute symmetry, yet studies suggest that as we get older, we don’t experience time the same way. And there are many theories that explain why it feels like time speeds up as we grow older.

Many psychologists believe that as we age, our perception of time begins to accelerate versus time actually speeding up. Studies indicate that biological changes in the human body that happen as it ages, such as reduced dopamine production in the brain, impact our internal clock. Furthermore, some believe that as we grow up, we have fewer emotional and arousing experiences – the first kiss, the first trip away from home, the first heartbreak. Such experiences are easier to remember and lead to higher time estimations.

The emotional intensity of our daily life is affected by the fact that many of us experience “Habituation Hypothesis”. Consider how often you find yourself on autopilot, moving through your daily tasks such as getting dressed or cooking dinner, or sitting in your daily commute while your mind is elsewhere. If you’ve lived in one place for a long time, or held the same job for many years, less and less feels truly new.

Our instinct is to conserve energy when we can, so when life is predictable, our minds turn to autopilot and we tune out. Our minds become efficient at carrying out tasks that have become habitual, so they are freed up to address more pressing issues. Unfortunately, many of us spend this mental energy on worrying, self-analyzing, weighing decisions, etc., which can become quite stressful. Yet, regardless where our mental focus goes, by exhibiting this type of behavior, we have a tendency to compress time, and as a result our lives seem to speed up.

There’s also what psychologists call “Forward Telescoping”, which considers how we perceive past events that have made a significant impact in our lives. We are inclined to stay connected to important past events – a birth of a child, a friend dying – to where they seem quite recent, even when many years have passed. The realization that ten years have gone by since you got married, when you feel like it’s only been five, can be quite shocking.

The quickening of our perception of time was also explained by Paul Janet’s “Proportional Theory”. It suggests that as we get older, each period of time is a smaller fraction of the whole lifetime, and this affects how we perceive each moment.

“The apparent length of an interval at a given epoch of a man’s life is proportional to the total length of the life itself. A child of 10 feels a year as 1/10 of his whole life – a man of 50 as 1/50, the whole life meanwhile apparently preserving a constant length.” ~ William James

“Studies show that people who feel “time-rich” tend to be happier and more fulfilled than those of us who constantly feel rushed. They experience fewer headaches and upset stomachs, and regularly get better quality sleep.” ~ Ron Friedman, Ph.D. (Source)



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@levina
The other day my son was complaining "Why exams are coming so fast?".

But then in another example when you wait for someone in his house for your money then the times seems longer.

For @Skull and Bones time seems longer for he want to finish his PhD quickly and earn lots of money to buy a Ferrari for his Italian GF, but time seems to elude him.............

Have you noticed while going from point A to Point B and returning back to Point A at the same speed, the return trip seems quick.

Thought of impending death puts the thought in older peoples mind that time is moving fast!!............

That means I am getting old!!