Has the previous year ended at a lighting speed again? Ours too. There seem to be several explanations for this.
How come time flies so quickly? Freud, Albert Einstein and more recently Albert Moukheiber, doctor in neuroscience and clinical psychologist or Jacques Press, psychoanalyst and psychosomatician, everyone has their own little theory on the passage of time.
A question of age!
First theory, that of Freud, which opposes conscious and unconscious. Ondine Peyron explains to us: “From birth, the individual will develop his psychic apparatus and be required to process many different information and requests, both consciously and unconsciously”.
And if, at first, our brain will use energy to process and sort all this information, then it will integrate it (in its subconscious) and thus process it much faster. Concrete example?
“When you take a path for the first time, you pay attention to every detail of it. When you make the return journey, you are much less vigilant, since you already know it.” Other significant examples: the first day of school, the first vacation, the first kiss. This is the whole theory. The more we advance in time, the more we have assimilated things. So the faster the time flies.
Guilty, the routine?
If we do the same thing every day and that we are not stimulated by various feelings (joy, pleasure, fear, etc.), the brain will have no more effort to create new connections and will lose its time markers. It may then have the impression that time passes faster.
This is why people with a repetitive routine have the feeling that time flies without really seeing the days go by. Although the opposite reasoning is also confirmed. When you do a lot of stuff, the minutes and hours also seem to go by.
“The brain will then accumulate more information and more important elements, which will make it feel like it is ‘cut off from the outside world'”, but also that time passes faster. Hence the feeling that a year has passed at lightning speed.
Our state of mind at the moment!
Another element that sometimes misleads our relationship to time: our state of mind. Basically, humans are lazy. If they do not make an effort to be creative or recreational, they will quickly get bogged down in this routine, in this comfort zone which will also influence on our perception of passing time.
Likewise, when it is concentrated, for example, its relation to time can be modified.
Ditto when our internal system is stimulated by a deep feeling. Concretely, “when an animal you are afraid of appears from nowhere, you are frightened, every second becomes counted and seems to last for hours. Conversely, if at the bend of a street you are struck by a thunderbolt, you will have the feeling that time stands still ”.
Matter of state of mind. And relativity. Albert Einstein said, “Put your hand on a frying pan for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour and it feels like a minute. That’s relativity.”
Last but not least, stress and fatigue. Secreted in too much quantity, cortisol or the stress hormone disrupts our body globally. It therefore seems logical that a strong stress, also comes to disrupt our internal clock and our chronoception. Same story with regard to fatigue.
Reference :https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-time-seem-to-speed-up-with-age/
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