The sense that time has officially sped up

a reply to: freedom7

Short and simple answer.

When you are young your brain/mind is working overtime to learn alongside it being new (time passes slower as the mind is much faster at learning and needs to be to develop). When you are older your brain/mind is decaying mainly alongside suffering from learned patterns and other factors (time appears to pass faster because it does not need to pay attention as much).

Basically, workout your head/mind health constantly by learning and stretching it and things will appear to slow down again.

originally posted by: stonerwilliam
a reply to: Tanga36


I have noticed the same thing , what i used to be able to do in a day now takes me 4 but i put that down to ill health in my case but it sure feels like i am working my socks off

Ya know, now that you mention it, my health really has gotten considerably worse in the last few years. While it isn't anything that most would consider debilitating, taking a couple of different ailments from an every now and then deal up to them now being chronic issues probably does play a major role in my time consumption.

Until you made me think about it, it was only a nuisance that made things a little harder to accomplish but now I'm seeing that everything adds upon each other and is probably the actual reason that I feel like I am killing myself and not getting anything done.

Thank you for helping me to see my health in a different light. I guess it might be time to get myself back to the specialists and look into newer or better treatments for what's going on. When things slowly go downhill over several years it's difficult to see the progression of it all.

Best of luck with your health. If you can, don't do what I've done. Stay on top of it. That's what I'm going to do now.

originally posted by: freedom7
a reply to: stonerwilliam

I hear you on that point, I feel the same at times. I hope your health gets better. Do you try any natural medicine?

Just M/J but with my added Dementia that has me going in circles these days reciting the dementia alphabet Aaaa , Mmmm ,Eeee and wondering what the hell i was up for and going to do,

a reply to: Tanga36

I am shocked at how little i accomplish in a day now even compared to 3 years ago with little things like house work and the gardening seeming to take a lot longer now and for only a fraction of the results i got back then .

I am on Blood thinners for the heart attacks , aspirin and a statin but my work rate sure has dropped considerably over the last 3 year and i mow take breaks to help me finish the asks .

I hope you have better medical doctors than we do in the UK

This place has become such a boomer snoozefest, just drink your milk and go to bed good lord.

a reply to: freedom7

No, can't say that I ever had that feeling really.

a reply to: freedom7

I started experiencing these thoughts probably 20 years ago. I am 50 now. It started not long after I had children. I took into account the fact that “kids grow up so fast” and “the older you get the faster it goes” are actually true statements no doubt. I just couldn’t shake the idea that time was still speeding up. I blurted it out sporadically for years to those who knew me. For me it wasn’t things appearing to fly by but more that there wasn’t as much time in a day anymore. I literally could not get as much done in a day as I used to. No matter how frenzied a pace I worked at. When the kids were in school and seemed like the year would fly by , I thought back to when I was a child and school seemed to drag by. So I started asking my children and to my surprise all three of them agreed every time I would ask that it flew by for them too. They have been my gauge ever since. They are in their twenties now. I am now and always have been in fine health and do not take any medications whatsoever.
I finally just decided time as we knew it had sped up. I couldn’t explain it and still can’t. I felt somewhat justified when I looked through a catalog for books on alternative subjects and saw that at least two people at that time had written books on this very subject. I got the same feeling of vindication when I came upon this thread.
I recognize most people don’t take it seriously and I’m convinced it may not affect some people at all. I know several people accomplish so many and different things in a time span that just could not be completed on my clock. I have no answers just my experiences. Thought I would share them because I like when someone else has the same crazy # happen to them or shares the same out yonder thoughts I do. Lol

a reply to: wehere

Thank you for sharing that!!

My experience has been the same as yours - I started asking my daughter and her friends when they were in middle school, and they said they agreed!

She's 22 now, and it seems like time goes even faster!

Can't figure how time could speed-up, and not affect sounds, tones, frequencies, radio-spectrums, and such ?

Vibrating quartz crystals ?

Other piezo-electronics ?

Elec-bloody-tricity ?

Old music recordings, compared to modern tuning ?

Looking at it logically we have had something like 100 years of mind altering 'things' manufactured by humanity being transferred one way or another into the water system. Many of those 'things' speed things up so to speak. Our waters are literally teeming with 'things.' Putting it bluntly humanity itself through its leisure time pursuits and its meddling with the water system has been literally 'speeding' things up

a reply to: lostgirl

I agree about it going faster snd faster. I’m glad I’m not the only one lol. My kids say their youth was basically a blur. It goes so fast that there is not enough time it seems to even make or hang onto as many memories as one used to. That’s something that literally just crossed my mind. I’m gonna stand by it though.😅

a reply to: Nothin

That’s what is so intriguing to me. I know it goes by faster than it once did and yet the clocks keep up with it. I don’t really try to figure it out I just take note and roll with it.

a reply to: wehere

Well that's the odd part, right ?

Our perception, vs. the technical aspect : don't seem to mesh.

We so easily bow to 'science', but should we always do so : at the cost of diminishing our questionable senses ?

A real head-scratcher.

originally posted by: wehere
a reply to: freedom7

I started experiencing these thoughts probably 20 years ago. I am 50 now. It started not long after I had children. I took into account the fact that “kids grow up so fast” and “the older you get the faster it goes” are actually true statements no doubt. I just couldn’t shake the idea that time was still speeding up. I blurted it out sporadically for years to those who knew me. For me it wasn’t things appearing to fly by but more that there wasn’t as much time in a day anymore. I literally could not get as much done in a day as I used to. No matter how frenzied a pace I worked at. When the kids were in school and seemed like the year would fly by , I thought back to when I was a child and school seemed to drag by. So I started asking my children and to my surprise all three of them agreed every time I would ask that it flew by for them too. They have been my gauge ever since. They are in their twenties now. I am now and always have been in fine health and do not take any medications whatsoever.
I finally just decided time as we knew it had sped up. I couldn’t explain it and still can’t. I felt somewhat justified when I looked through a catalog for books on alternative subjects and saw that at least two people at that time had written books on this very subject. I got the same feeling of vindication when I came upon this thread.
I recognize most people don’t take it seriously and I’m convinced it may not affect some people at all. I know several people accomplish so many and different things in a time span that just could not be completed on my clock. I have no answers just my experiences. Thought I would share them because I like when someone else has the same crazy # happen to them or shares the same out yonder thoughts I do. Lol

Many good points in the thread. As a child what always amazed me was the 2 hour plus drive we would take on weekends. Going was the long ride, i was excited to get there. Coming home MOST of the time seemed half as long. To the point if didnt have a clock would not believe it.

Mentioned this before, ofc seems obvious, just match time code from an old movie to a clock and you will see little variance. Interesting nonetheless.

a reply to: ReadOnly

i agree about the rides to and from a destination. i would just chalk that up to anticipation ,though. i never thought about the clock /movie experiment. i may give that a try one day. provided , of course, that i ever get caught up on the the things i've been unable to complete in my shortened day lol. I don't plan on trying to solve the mystery of this topic, however, it does cause me to wonder about other things. For example, would the believers in this time anomaly be more likely to experience the Mandella Effect? Or would the believers likely line up on one side of a Mandella Effect while the other version of it was being supported by mostly non believers. like you said, it is interesting.

I think it's simply perspective shift. When you are young, you don't really have much of a grasp on time, or the fact that it is very limited. At least our own personal time is. Sitting in the corner for 20 minutes could last years, while a day at the pool on summer vacation can be gone in a blink of the eye. If you are not immersed in what you are doing, or thoroughly not enjoying a task, time can seem to go by slowly. When I am working on an art piece, I look up at the clock and 6 hours whizzed by. Usually I can at least see where the time went, as far as progress toward finished piece is concerned.

a reply to: Nothin

Maybe our minds and our perceptions of events are actually stronger than the physical, technical aspects and cause them to adapt to our thinking. Who knows? Then again, who is supposed to know and who is supposed to figure it out and who is supposed to remain oblivious are not my area of expertise lol. Head scratchers keep our minds sharp.