Part of your sense of time passing is dictated by the number of new memories you have made. Time feels as if it is going more slowly when you are bored or feeling lonely or rejected.In contrast, if life feels as though it's going fast, this could be a sign of a full life. If you lay down many new memories, in retrospect, it can feel as though ages passed.

Slowing down

Although some physicists would argue against the existence of time, we all do have a perception of time that reflects the reality of our lives on Earth.

The perception of time

Most of us forget more than we remember. We change memories to make sense of what has happened in our lives. When we then recall a memory, we reconstruct the events in our minds and even shape them to fit in with any new information.

False pasts

Many of us think of our past as a kind of a video library where we can look at records of our lives. If memories were fixed like videotapes, you would find it difficult to imagine a new situation.It is our past memories that help us imagine a future, and to preview future events. This skill of using the past to predict the future helps us try out different hypothetical scenarios before we commit.

Understand the future

"Time" is the most frequently used noun in the English language. We all know what it feels like as time passes. Our present becomes the past as soon as it's happened; today soon turns into yesterday. If you live in a temperate climate, each year you see the seasons come and go.

The perception of time

What we get wrong about time

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