In the blink of an eye
We are already halfway through 2024
This also means:
There are less than six months to go
It's going to be in 2024
Pass! Finish! Finish!
Come home in the evening
Obviously I didn't do anything
Play with your phone after eating
When I raised my eyes, it was already twelve o'clock
The weekend feels like it just started a second before
Why is it that I have to go to work again in a flash
Many friends are sighing
Time seems to have really slowed down
"It's been 10 years since I took the college entrance examination"
"I've been working for 7 years"
"After the surgery a few years ago, the doctor informed me that it was time for a half-year review."
These are the feelings of the accelerated passage of time
Familiar to you?
Is there a feeling of life?
Really pressed the accelerator button by some force
It seems like no matter what
It's all trying to catch up
And we don't know it
But sometimes it feels like time
It's slow
For example, when waiting for the end of work
Today
I'll take you to reveal the secret
Those mystical experiences about "time".
Why are happy times always short-lived?
Compared to leisure time, happy time is always fleeting.
In addition, when work is very busy, time can pass surprisingly quickly.
Human emotions have an impact on mental time
Psychologically, human emotions have an impact on mental time.
When we are busy and happy, we don't pay attention to the passage of time at all, so we feel that time has become faster.
Dopamine affects the brain's perception of time
From a scientific point of view, the research team of neurobiologist Joseph Paton of the Champalimer Center for Unknown Science Research in Portugal found in rodent experiments that a group of neurons that release the neurotransmitter dopamine affect the brain's perception of time.
To put it simply: when you're happy, these cells are more active, they release a lot of dopamine, and your brain thinks it's going to take less time than it actually is.
And when you're bored, these cells don't release as much dopamine, and time seems to slow down.
Why does it feel like time is passing faster and faster?
With age
Such topics seem to be becoming more and more common
When I was a child, I always felt that a year was so long
Even in the ten minutes between classes in elementary school
We can do it
Go to the playground to jump rope
Go to the water room to get water
Go to the commissary and buy a pack of crispy noodles
Go back to the toilet
However, when we grow up
But I feel that time seems to become
It's getting faster and shorter
So why do you feel this way?
Subjective judgment
Experiments have shown that as people age, their biological clock slows down, the accuracy of estimating time decreases, and the length of subjective judgment time is longer than the objective length of time.
As a result, people will feel the passage of time more quickly than it does.
Proportional principle
There is also the "principle of proportionality" that implies that people compare a certain period of time with the whole time they have experienced.
For a 1-year-old, a year takes up 100% of their life, while for a 35-year-old, a year is only 2.86% of life.
Contextual change model
In addition, there is a "situational change model" in psychology, which believes that the more memories about an event are stored, the longer people feel that it takes to do it.
There is a small experiment, AB has two line segments, one long and one short, when drawing on paper, which line segment do you think takes longer to draw?
A ——————
B ——————————————
Experiments have shown that most people think that it takes longer to draw the B line.
Imagine a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties who lives the same life every day, and he is so familiar with his work or daily activities that he is comfortable doing it.
So it can be understood that the reason why we feel that time is getting faster and faster is because our lives have been highly repetitive.
Because the human brain automatically retrieval, when it is judged to be the same, repeated scene or thing, the brain will not store the information over and over again.
In contrast, the memories of the younger years are more abundant and rich, and the interesting memories of socializing, traveling, and dating will make life seem longer.
That's because when we were young, we were always exploring new and interesting things, learning new knowledge, and updating our experience of life, and the information stored in our brains became more and more rich and diverse.
so
If you are getting older and want to save time
What to do?
The answer is simple
Learn to live like a child
Learn to break the rules
Make sure your life is full of fresh and positive experiences
Like a trip to a new place
Develop new interests
As well as spending more time living in the moment
can all "extend" your interesting, meaningful life
Long-term solidified lifestyle
and a legalistic mindset
will make us ignore a lot
Joy at your fingertips
But if you can try it often
Experience some new life
You'll get more
Freshness and happiness
Hurry up and give it a try
Do you have any experience that time is faster?
Share it with the editor in the comment area!
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