Theorizing that Energetic Constraints in Aging Make Time Appear to Have Passed More Rapidly (opens in new tab)

Our perception of the passage of past time appears to change with age. Studies suggest that when looking back at recent personal history in later life time appears to have passed more rapidly than it did in youth. One potential explanation for this is that people recall less of what happened in later life than they do in earlier life, or that the storage or retrieval of experiential memory becomes otherwise more compressed. Studies of recall suggest that we remember something like 2% of our e...