![]() There are good reasons why older people may feel that way. When asked to reflect on their lives, the participants older than 40 felt that time elapsed slowly in their childhood but then accelerated steadily through their teenage years into early adulthood. But for longer durations, such as a decade, a pattern emerged: older people tended to perceive time as moving faster. Most participants felt that the clock ticked by quickly. In 2005, for instance, psychologists Marc Wittmann and Sandra Lenhoff, both then at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, surveyed 499 participants, ranging in age from 14 to 94 years, about the pace at which they felt time moving-from “very slowly” to “very fast.” For shorter durations-a week, a month, even a year-the subjects' perception of time did not appear to increase with age. According to psychologist and BBC columnist Claudia Hammond, “the sensation that time speeds up as you get older is one of the biggest mysteries of the experience of time.” Fortunately, our attempts to unravel this mystery have yielded some intriguing findings. ![]() ![]() Many of us feel that time passes more quickly as we age, a perception that can lead to regrets. “Where did the time go?” middle-aged and older adults often remark.
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