Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?
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When your 10, one year equals 10% of your whole life. When you’re 40, one year is just 2.5% of your life, when your 80 one year is just 1.25% of your life.
Our brains think like this, they don’t have little clocks in them keeping perfect time, our brains think in ratios of the whole, logarithmically.
If I have 4 things, and you take 3 that feels like you took more than if I had 100 things and you took 3, both times you only took three but I perceive the taken quantity as a ratio of the whole quantity, so it feels like I still have 97% of what I had before where as the first time it feels like I only have 25% left.
We perceive time the same way.
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