Why Is Time Going So Fast and How Do I Slow It Down?

Study Finds ^ | December 17, 2025 | Hinze Hogendoorn (Queensland University of Technology)

[Secret Agent Man]

Also I have found the more your daily and weekly routines are, it can feel like time has flown by faster, as things being so similar, days and weeks and months blend together...

[EBH]

I think there might be a Biblical answer?

[bankwalker]

relativity ... each new day seems to go faster because it is a smaller percentage of your entire past ...

[broken_clock]

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana… ;-)

[kawhill]

“Paradoxically though, because these routine tasks are less exciting and novel, they leave weaker and less vivid memory traces.” There have been times where I’ve left very little of a vivid memory trace.

[Red Badger]

When on a long drive or trip, sometimes I cannot remember the last few miles I have driven.................

[frank ballenger]

I should have read this book but I haven’t so far. Didn’t have time.

How To Stop Time.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=03be98b8118719e4&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZjSkgYzz5-5RrRWAIniWd7tzPwkE1KJWcRvaH01D-XIX002E0qNXsgfZ6fffiMQMigVxnU6tfQmfH9K5I6DpRZ36-aYlMJxHqo7AcXZ4DJaofT7

Or this book Time In A Bottle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=book+time+in+a+bottle&sca_esv=03be98b8118719e4&udm=2&biw=1318&bih=670&ei=ulVDab6CIrqvptQPrcHSkQo&ved=0ahUKEwi-x_eW-8WRAxW6l4kEHa2gNKIQ4dUDCBI&oq=book+time+in+a+bottle&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyIVYm9vayB0aW1lIGluIGEgYm90dGxlMgQQABgeMgYQABgIGB4yBhAAGAgYHkjwMFDuG1juG3ABeACQAQCYATagATaqAQExuAEMyAEA-AEBmAIBoAI-mAMA4gMFEgExIECIBgGSBwExoAfdAbIHATG4Bz7CBwMyLTHIBwWACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-img

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Correct.

It also seems to pass faster as you get older because so much time has already passed for you.

For me five years was just yesterday, for my great nephew who is three, it was an unimaginably long time ago before he even existed.

[BipolarBob]

I think you’re right.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Bob434]

read a really boring book- or go on a date with a really boring person- time just drags along when doing so

[Bob434]

my tagline

[Retrofitted]

You, sir, are absolutely correct. I got time to stretch back out to “normal” by doing more new stuff and the old stuff in more random ways. Pick up a hobby that occupies your mind and your body and give it a week (I are a geetar playa!) and watch what happens to your time perception.

[Track9]

Stand in line at the post office.

[Doctor Congo]

Being 95 I am an authority.

You slow things down by planning on the next many years.
Plant a fruit tree or something...

[Carry_Okie]

The more you pay attention to time itself, the more slowly it seems to pass.

And the more it will compress in retrospect.

The more events there are (the more one gets done), the more the past expands. Repetition and drudgery make it drag in the doing and collapse looking backward.

A good example of music. If one hasn't paid much attention to it over time, the 60s were yesterday.

[Big Red Badger]

Biblical -—?
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I’d like to hear it.
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Einstein,
.
Consider sitting on a Hot Stove
Compared to talking to A Pretty Girl.
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IIRC

[Kenny Bania]

The Rolling Stones - Time Waits For No One

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Oh, what the heck.

Here is one of the ultimate “time” songs.

The Chambers Brothers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MxMKVMBv1qk

After the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, there was a benefit concert at the Cow Palace. The Chambers Brothers played Time. Later, who should walk out on stage.... Bob Hope!