Eli5 Why does time feel so different when you’re an adult vs a kid?

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I remember being a kid thinking waiting for an event that was 2 weeks away felt like 2 years away.

I remember school days feeling like it dragged on and on.

Now as a working adult, I can’t remember what day is is tomorrow or even today. My days bleeds in together in a good way.

As a kid, having less things to do was a factor. As an adult, you find there’s not enough hours in a day.

How do you remember experiencing time as a child?

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All these “because x time metric is a larger proportion of your life when you’re younger” answers are simplistic horseshit. They’re conflating perception and perspective.

If you get in to intense meditation, you can get to feel those moments of slowed time again.

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