Ill tell you, as a child (which is odd cause I just had this conversation) time truly felt slower. Just feeling like I was playing forever before the sun finally set but now as an adult time seems to just pass me by, I miss the days of endless playing!
Me too.. I'm a muslim so I do fasting.. When I was kid. Back then 10 hours feels like a day and night for today. I'd be asking how long it will be many times.. And now. It feels like the sunset just in a blink
Yeah but the problem with that theory is your idea of how long you've been gone is not relative to a dog, only to humans. A dog is used to their own perception of time, not yours. Also on the flipside if it were like that then that means the time you spend with them would feel longer so they shouldn't be so excited if you've only been gone a few hours.
I sure remember time seeming slower as a kid. Back then, a year felt like forever. Now, a year flies by. It almost feels like we jumped right from 2016 to 2018; 2017 felt like a blur.
Yeah, I remember that. One reason why is we didn't have GPSs. We do now. But still, as a child, I hated long distance traveling. One reason why is my parents would take back ways instead of freeways. And back ways were a huge waste of time, and now that I drive for myself, I take the freeway. I take the fastest routes available and save as much time as I can. Children love freeways more than back ways because the point of freeways is to prevent time loss. So riding with my parents on back ways was slow and boring, not fun at all. Parents don't respect their kids as much as their kids respect them, that's life, so time was much slower for me than for them. And when I take the freeway, time is still slow but not as slow as it used to be, at least it prevents time loss. I have autism, and I hated school because it was a waste of time as well, so time went very slow. Time just wouldn't speed up no matter what I did. Being a child was not fun at all because of slow motioned time, car rides and school days were longer and more boring then than they probably might be now. But looking at children with autism and others without it, who sees time more slow than who else? I thought autistics see it more slower than non-autistics. Plus autistics have a shorter lifespan than non-autistics. So I always try to avoid as much waiting time as I can. Waiting takes longer for kids than adults so some things they get in line for, children go first and adults go last. So children see time slower than adults, it's how nature created us. And I hope anyone who sees this understands autism.
I sometimes experience, what I call, "Time Warps", where I'll perceive an apparent time lapse of 20 - 30 minutes but, in reality, only 5 or so minutes have elapsed. I wish I could do it at will because it would sure save a lot of time when I have to solve a problem. : )
The careful use of caffeine has the effect you are describing (not typically to such an intensity of course). Students who don't have caffeine addiction/resistance use it during tests to essentially have more time (did so myself 25 years ago). Warning: it does not make a person smarter - still gotta study (sorry), but it's like you get more time. Conversely, drugs like muscle relaxers have the opposite effect, but they really drag out which is why I avoid them even though I have chronic body injuries which would benefit from them. I'm just intensely opposed to degraded brain function for myself, that's all. In some situations, the human body releases chemicals which help the brain process with greater intensity, and the effect is as if time slows down...but it does have a price. Exercise with caution.
I remember watching an episode of Recess and Arthur, and it went by at a normal pace, now when I go back and watch it I'm astounded at how fast the characters talk and how fast the story goes by.
I definitely remember that time went SO slow when I was younger. On my 3rd birthday, a year until my next party seemed like a literal eternity. Now it flies by
I heard a great theory about why time moves faster for adults and the elderly than it does for kids and teens. The theory basically went like this: To a child age 10, 1 year is equal to 1/10th of their life, which is a fairly long amount of time. That same year to a 20 year-old adult would be 1/20th of their life. An elderly 60 year-old sees that 1 year as 1/60th of their life. Every year 1 year means less to your life than before, and thus it seems to fly by faster as it goes.
That’s definitely part of it but wouldn’t explain at all why a child might be better on the tests like the flicker test. That’s more like hindsight time perception or subjective perception. Which idk probably part of the fact people can’t agree on whether kid’s experience time faster or not. That’s more like the phenomenon of time seeming to tick by real slow when you’re very bored or distressed
Everything you experience is your brain hallucinating. We only experience our brains interpretation of things and we all know how our senses deceive us so who knows what's really going on. It's all a psychedelic trip. Lol
This makes a lot of sense. I have inattentive ADHD and I've noticed that time seems to fly by when I'm not on my meds but when I take my ADHD medicine time seems to slow down and I'm able to notice more things I'm my surroundings
Is it just me or does time seem to move faster the older you get? A year now seems a lot faster then a year 5 years ago. And the fact that it feels like time move faster when you’re having fun is also kinda interesting. And finally, as a person with ADHD I can confirm that it’s very much possible for time to change speed at random times, pretty much all the time
Children experience time more slowly... This makes sense to me. When I was a kid summertime seemed to last forever as did the regular school year. As an adult time passes very quickly. Summer is here and gone in the blink of an eye. Strangely enough, winter seems to last FOREVER.
i distinctly remember time feeling slower when i was younger and an hour feeling like forever. feels like an hours just a few minutes now. every year feels shorter than the last to me too.
How do they test for the flicker fusion rate in animals? How do you know when the animal for sure sees just a straight light? It would have to react somehow, like you'd have to train it.
Don't kids percieve time more slowly because they don't have as much experience as adults? Like for a kid, a week is forever, but for an adult a week feels like nothing because it's less time in proportion to their lifespan? I don't know that I'm explaining this very well, but basically people percieve time in proportion to their lifespan up to this point. So for a five-year-old, ten years is inconcievably long because they haven't lived for ten years, but for a fifty-year-old man ten years slipped by like sand through his fingers. Meanwhile, for a twenty-year-old ten years is half their current lifetime, so while they understand ten years because they've lived twenty, thirty still seems to be in the distance.
This is a pretty common assumed explanation. The scary thing is I once saw this graphed out (for a 1yo a year is their whole life, for a 2yo a year is half their life, and so on) and weighting this way it showed that you've lived half of the perceived time of your life by the time you are seven years old.
You should talk about psychedelics and time. I had one trip where I lost concept of time entirely; time literally FROZE for me and I mean that exactly how you’d imagine that to be. It’s impossible to explain that feeling in human language but I thought I’d mention.
In the case of time passing faster as we age, we could be experiencing each day as less novel as the days go by. Your first day was your first, so everything is new to you and you gotta check it all out, but your second day is just a bit more samey and the third even more so. We pay more attention to new things and less attention to old things.
Time seems to move slower when I'm stoned, and yet my mind has trouble keeping up. It's like my brain is processing smaller packets of information. So instead of having one solid thought/idea per second, I'm doing two "half-ideas" per second. It works wonders for listening to music, but not so much for keeping up with conversation. So maybe a well trained baseball player, when "in the zone," is processing smaller packets of thoughts at a much higher frequency.
Flies have tons of lenses on each eye and that’s why we seem like we’re moving really slow. It’s easy to catch a fly, just move your hand really slow when it’s posted on something and it won’t be able to see your hand fast enough to get out of the way.
You're pretty much correct! For humans time perception seems to be relative to our age. As a 20 year old, the span from 10 years old to 15 felt like an incredibly long time, while 15-20 years went by so much faster. The next 10 years while likely go by even faster, although making new experiences and traveling seems to slow things down compared to doing the same thing everyday for months on end.
jep 60Hz is nothing! Im pretty sure nearly everone can detect the differnce up to 265Hz at least everyone i tested with was able to tell the differnce! Even my 97 year old grandma!
of course nobody did know on which refreshrate he/she is playing, watching videos or using the desktop/ programms. I did 24, 30, 60, 75, 100, 120, 144, 165, 200, 240 & 265 and everything with and without G-Sync. in 5 Games 3 desktop enviroments and 5 videos... its about 95% accurate. Most mistakes where made between 240 & 265Hz and then between 165 & 144Hz. I mean thats kinda obvious... Ah G-syncs on other Monitors freesync has a huge impact too - its about 1 gap, so 60 feels about the same as 75Hz, 120 as 144Hz etc.! :) But sometimes this sync causes imput lag... its tricky...^^
I was just wondering the other day where the movie trope of "being smaller makes big things move slower" came from. Thank you SciShow for calming my thoughts.
Time definitely goes by faster when you get older; or at least, perceptively. A year used to seem like forever as a kid and now I just about get used to the year being, say, 2017, and suddenly it's 2018.
I know this video is about other animals, not people. But I'm somewhat disappointed they don't mention how when on phycodelics like mushrooms, minutes can feel like hours, and on high doses of DMT years can pass only to sober up and see its only been 30 minutes.
ToXiiC BULLET I feel the effect in that case is much less extreme but definetly still worth talking about. I wish sciscow would dedicate a series to psycoactives, it would be very interesting.
I distinctly remember as a child how time used to pass so slowly. And there was that one time being on psychedelics, staring at a watch while freaking out as each passing second felt like an eternity. These days time vanishes in the blink of an eye. I'm getting older. :/
I know for sure time felt different when I was younger. A day felt like a really long time since a 1 hour time out felt like a whole day, and a summer vacation felt like a year does now. However, this goes by overall time and not shorter amounts of time, which still felt like longer but not by that much
I doubt that it's that different from how we perceive time. But, like how time "crawl" when we stare at the second ticking away 1 sec at a time, for a pet for example a dog. The Dog would have little to no distraction and would be aware of what's happaning around them without "day dreaming". So like how everything slows down when we concentrate really hard on it, a dog would feel the same, slower when not a lot is happaning and faster when they get really excited.
Yup, when your a child growing up time seems to go quite slow due to the brain learning something new every day. By the time you are an adult you have mostly experienced a lot of the things you do on a daily basis. Your brain goes on autopilot mode there by you feel time going faster because you don't notice the work you do. Although staring at the clock will slow time down at least for yourself do to your impatience to get out of work/school.
Theres been several times when not sleep deprived but if i get a certain amount of sleep when I wake up, in a couple of minutes everything seems to slow down and for about 30 minutes It’ll seem slow, i cant explain it, by the time i get out of it, it felt like a dream, i don’t know if i just need more sleep but thats a weird thing about me if u wanted to know
I think it was Einstein who once made this comparison: If you kiss someone you love for one minute, it feels like a second, but if you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it feels like an hour.
@@basrengangetch.2042 exactly, no one. Your brain hates it, and can't ignore it, which means they experience and process every grueling second while waiting for it to be over. A watched clock never finishes, I believe is the saying. Whereas kissing someone you love, that's rapture. It's exciting, wonderful. Everything seems quicker because there's never enough.
I've always thought super perception would be an awesome superpower if you had the ability to turn it on and off. Adrenaline has an affect on perception right? Seems like things are slower when you have that stuff flowing through your veins like during sports.
I've had time pass at different rates depending on the situation. Whenever I was about to experience a motorcycle collision with a car, time seemed to slow to a crawl. It was over in less than 2 seconds but I had time to consciously get limbs out of harms way and determine the trajectory my body would take afterward to avoid obstacles such as lamp posts if possible.
this makes so much sense. i remember my first year of school taking so long, feeling like forever. the past few years for me have been so much faster. as well, i can remember being able to process so much more so much faster as a kid. I was a lot better at video games back then, but now i’m slow af and it so sad and disappointing because i just can’t do as good as i could when i was younger at some things.
Shorter neural pathways, faster processing, slower perception of peripheral time. Explains everything presented in this video without resorting to evolution or energy consumption vs. benefit balance. This is a hypothesis I had as a kid when looking at how quickly small animals and insects moved. Glad science is catching up with me, three to four decades later. :-P
Well it's all relative...... but only we can conceptualise the difference. There's also very few animals who have no memory, even flies can learn and recall.
there's a big difference between how we perceive things after the fact, and how we perceive them moment to moment, though. i.e., if you take a drug that stops you forming new memories for a while, you still perceive the world at a certain rate while on the drug, right? then after the fact, the day may seem shorter than usual-but maybe not. realistically, how much of your day do you remember before you go to bed?
Even your "moment to moment" perceptions of the "present" are technically slightly always in the past though due to light's travel time and the processing time of your eye/brain combo system. Even our perception of the "present" is always really the slight past. It's weird when you overthink it, lol.
I definitely remember feeling how time passed more slowly when I was younger and noticing the change of it seeming to pass more quickly as I got older. I'm sure most if not everyone has had this experience. As you mentioned with the baseball players, people have experiences where time seems to speed up or slow down in a specific situation. It really makes you think about perception and on how if there really is a right way to perceive things that we tend to think of as objectively set like time.
I think you're onto something. I perceived time far faster as an adult than I ever did as a child. As a child, things took forever. As an adult it seems to be too fast to keep up. My grandma always said as she got older the years went faster and faster. She's got a point. As for my cats, guess it helps me understand them a little better knowing what their perception of time is. Very interesting, and may help us understand time a little better. I wonder how physics plays into the biological perception? Seems like physics and biology contradict each other on a lot of things.
I always thought time moved slowly for kids because they experienced new things all of the time. But for adults the new things they could experience were minimum. Atleast that's what I come to understand on another video awhile back.
I'd buy the different between adults and kids. When I was little summer vacation seemed to last forever. Now summer is gone before I really seem to get a chance to enjoy it.
Thinking faster "zooms in" on the time it takes for it to finish - making the whole moment seem to have taken longer. Imagine it being an adjustable pixel setting, and experienced time moves through a fixed amount of pixels at any given moment. More pixels to process, more experienced time is present. In sleep we basically put our thinking on pause - making time feel nothing has been processed.
If your point is that people shouldn't comment things that don't add anything of value to the video then really you should have abstained from writing yours =p
When a video is monetized, each "interaction" bumps the payment up a tiny bit, or at least makes it look more popular. Watching, liking, and commenting all count as interactions, so even if a comment doesn't add any info, it does count for something.
For many small creatures this isn't even necessary because of the very short distances neural impulses have to travel, which makes communication between different parts of their bodies super fast
cats have evolved senses to counter the speed of the small animals they are easly able to percive were something is going to be before it's there though not always perfect its good enough to make cats in the top 5 or maybe 10 preditors in terms of success rate in hunting
The reason why time seemed so slow to us when we were kids is because we’re learning something new everyday. Taking in all this new information on a daily basis makes us really be present for the entire time unlike when you’re an adult every day is the same, we get used to a mundane and repetitious schedule so we basically go on autopilot and the time slips right past us. So basically you want to make your time feel longer, learn something new as often as you can and get out of your comfort zone to create memorable experiences
I am 50 years old, and the years definitely seem to be going by far more rapidly now than they did when I was young. Between the ages of 18-21 I lived in Dundee. I've now been back in my home town for 8 years. But it feels like I was in Dundee for far longer than I've been back here. Maybe it's because I was doing so much more back then, new things and learning all the time. Or maybe time does feel faster as you get older. Beats me.
i was literally scrolling through the comments to find one about them saying "fishes" so that i could say that "fishes" is the correct plural when you're referring to more than one type of fish. looks like someone else got here first
I remember asking my dad about this when I was 5ish. I asked why time is so slow. He told me it’s fast for him and mom because of our ages. When you’re 5, a year has been 1/5 of your life. And when you’re 30, a year has been 1/30th of your life. As you get older, it’s a smaller fraction of your life so it seems faster
male sci show presenters: get their facts and research picked apart by viewers female sci show presenters: get their appearance and style choices insulted by viewers Just enjoy the science people! 😒
One thing I miss about being a kid is the “endless summer” phenomenon. Summer is the same pace as every other time of year now.
Ah, glad to see that I was not alone in that weird feeling, as if life was endless and everything was in slow motion.
@@Planet-of-the-Gibbons yeah I used to think summer was a year long 😭
@@uhuh.2232 Yeah, especially that it was our big out-of-school holiday times!
Yup! It's annoying as an adult but the plus side is that winter goes equally as fast 😅
Ill tell you, as a child (which is odd cause I just had this conversation) time truly felt slower. Just feeling like I was playing forever before the sun finally set but now as an adult time seems to just pass me by, I miss the days of endless playing!
me too. ah to be a worry free kid again.
@@princessrose17 Wasn't worry free but time did pass much more slowly, and couldn't stay awake until midnight.
Me too.. I'm a muslim so I do fasting.. When I was kid. Back then 10 hours feels like a day and night for today. I'd be asking how long it will be many times.. And now. It feels like the sunset just in a blink
Same! A day felt longer that it is now
I am a kid but why I think why ye feel like that is because you have a lot more responsibilities to do and the day flys by that's just my opinion
watch in .25x speed for the true experience
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She sounds drunk.
0.75 speed if you want to be a dog
@@rndmbs For a fly
No wonder dogs get so excited when they see you - it feels like you've been gone way longer than you actually have.
Rachel S Ha!..... I can't believe this comment doesn't have a whole bunch of likes...
That's the exact same thought I had when Olivia said that dogs perceive time approx. 30% slower than we do.
Yeah but the problem with that theory is your idea of how long you've been gone is not relative to a dog, only to humans. A dog is used to their own perception of time, not yours. Also on the flipside if it were like that then that means the time you spend with them would feel longer so they shouldn't be so excited if you've only been gone a few hours.
Children definitely experience the world alot more slowly. I remember being so relieved as I grew up that time wasn't so slow anymore.
I sure remember time seeming slower as a kid. Back then, a year felt like forever. Now, a year flies by. It almost feels like we jumped right from 2016 to 2018; 2017 felt like a blur.
And it feels like 2018 to 2023 was nothing but it was 5 years 😦
Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day.
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
culwin
kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Far away across the fields
the tolling of the island bell
calls the faithful to their knees
to hear the softly spoken magic spell...
I'm a simple man, I see Pink Floyd, I press upvote (and make a comment about it)
You are young and life is long
and there is time to kill today.
No song makes me realize how much time i'm wasting more than this damn one
So children sense time passing more slowly...
Well, that explains the old, "Are we there yet?" joke, doesn't it?
Yeah, I remember that. One reason why is we didn't have GPSs. We do now. But still, as a child, I hated long distance traveling. One reason why is my parents would take back ways instead of freeways. And back ways were a huge waste of time, and now that I drive for myself, I take the freeway. I take the fastest routes available and save as much time as I can. Children love freeways more than back ways because the point of freeways is to prevent time loss. So riding with my parents on back ways was slow and boring, not fun at all. Parents don't respect their kids as much as their kids respect them, that's life, so time was much slower for me than for them. And when I take the freeway, time is still slow but not as slow as it used to be, at least it prevents time loss. I have autism, and I hated school because it was a waste of time as well, so time went very slow. Time just wouldn't speed up no matter what I did. Being a child was not fun at all because of slow motioned time, car rides and school days were longer and more boring then than they probably might be now. But looking at children with autism and others without it, who sees time more slow than who else? I thought autistics see it more slower than non-autistics. Plus autistics have a shorter lifespan than non-autistics. So I always try to avoid as much waiting time as I can. Waiting takes longer for kids than adults so some things they get in line for, children go first and adults go last. So children see time slower than adults, it's how nature created us. And I hope anyone who sees this understands autism.
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2:53 Makes sense that we seem slow to a fly... time flies.
Master Therion Get out
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I'm afraid to ask... okay, what about their sex life? It's not about bananas is it?
time-flies are the best kind of flies!
Good one man
Tarantulas have slow metabolism but are lightning fast when attack
I sometimes experience, what I call, "Time Warps", where I'll perceive an apparent time lapse of 20 - 30 minutes but, in reality, only 5 or so minutes have elapsed. I wish I could do it at will because it would sure save a lot of time when I have to solve a problem. : )
The careful use of caffeine has the effect you are describing (not typically to such an intensity of course). Students who don't have caffeine addiction/resistance use it during tests to essentially have more time (did so myself 25 years ago). Warning: it does not make a person smarter - still gotta study (sorry), but it's like you get more time.
Conversely, drugs like muscle relaxers have the opposite effect, but they really drag out which is why I avoid them even though I have chronic body injuries which would benefit from them. I'm just intensely opposed to degraded brain function for myself, that's all.
In some situations, the human body releases chemicals which help the brain process with greater intensity, and the effect is as if time slows down...but it does have a price.
Exercise with caution.
It would be interesting to converse with an introspective adrenaline junky who is good at articulating his own psycho-physiology.
I have the same problem with treadmills. I think I've worked out for 30 minutes, but only 5 have actually elapsed!! 😂
I have the opposite problem thanks to my adhd. And it's more like I perceive a 5 minute lapse of time but in reality it's more like an hour
Might be a trance state.
I remember watching an episode of Recess and Arthur, and it went by at a normal pace, now when I go back and watch it I'm astounded at how fast the characters talk and how fast the story goes by.
I definitely remember that time went SO slow when I was younger. On my 3rd birthday, a year until my next party seemed like a literal eternity. Now it flies by
Well it looks like someone has been reading the comments and made some changes in how they edit the cuts.
Thank You for LESS JUMP CUTS.
I really don't notice these. Maybe your eyes are just too fast.
Lol. There are people who are unnecessarily picky enough to be bothered by a jump cut?
I heard a great theory about why time moves faster for adults and the elderly than it does for kids and teens. The theory basically went like this:
To a child age 10, 1 year is equal to 1/10th of their life, which is a fairly long amount of time. That same year to a 20 year-old adult would be 1/20th of their life. An elderly 60 year-old sees that 1 year as 1/60th of their life. Every year 1 year means less to your life than before, and thus it seems to fly by faster as it goes.
That’s definitely part of it but wouldn’t explain at all why a child might be better on the tests like the flicker test. That’s more like hindsight time perception or subjective perception. Which idk probably part of the fact people can’t agree on whether kid’s experience time faster or not. That’s more like the phenomenon of time seeming to tick by real slow when you’re very bored or distressed
Great. Time is an illusion.
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Everything you experience is your brain hallucinating. We only experience our brains interpretation of things and we all know how our senses deceive us so who knows what's really going on. It's all a psychedelic trip. Lol
It's more relative, I'd say. And so would Einstein.
This makes a lot of sense. I have inattentive ADHD and I've noticed that time seems to fly by when I'm not on my meds but when I take my ADHD medicine time seems to slow down and I'm able to notice more things I'm my surroundings
Is it just me or does time seem to move faster the older you get? A year now seems a lot faster then a year 5 years ago.
And the fact that it feels like time move faster when you’re having fun is also kinda interesting.
And finally, as a person with ADHD I can confirm that it’s very much possible for time to change speed at random times, pretty much all the time
Children experience time more slowly... This makes sense to me. When I was a kid summertime seemed to last forever as did the regular school year. As an adult time passes very quickly. Summer is here and gone in the blink of an eye. Strangely enough, winter seems to last FOREVER.
i distinctly remember time feeling slower when i was younger and an hour feeling like forever. feels like an hours just a few minutes now. every year feels shorter than the last to me too.
I like how the experiment basically boiled down finding the optimal fps for a bunch of different species.
How do they test for the flicker fusion rate in animals? How do you know when the animal for sure sees just a straight light? It would have to react somehow, like you'd have to train it.
I was wondering the same thing the whole time
I assume by neural activity? When brain displays a similar pattern to a continous light, bingo.
Even fruit flies can be trained to a small degree.
Rares Lisovschi how do you test that on fish?.. Flies?
Small electrodes that detect electric impulses in their brain perhaps?
Don't kids percieve time more slowly because they don't have as much experience as adults? Like for a kid, a week is forever, but for an adult a week feels like nothing because it's less time in proportion to their lifespan? I don't know that I'm explaining this very well, but basically people percieve time in proportion to their lifespan up to this point. So for a five-year-old, ten years is inconcievably long because they haven't lived for ten years, but for a fifty-year-old man ten years slipped by like sand through his fingers. Meanwhile, for a twenty-year-old ten years is half their current lifetime, so while they understand ten years because they've lived twenty, thirty still seems to be in the distance.
meh meh I don't think that has been proven correct just speculation.
Henrizz It's meant to be just speculation, man. I'm just throwing out ideas here.
Yeah i belive that sounds about right.
I am so glad to hear (see) that I'm not the only person who has thought of this.
This is a pretty common assumed explanation. The scary thing is I once saw this graphed out (for a 1yo a year is their whole life, for a 2yo a year is half their life, and so on) and weighting this way it showed that you've lived half of the perceived time of your life by the time you are seven years old.
You should talk about psychedelics and time. I had one trip where I lost concept of time entirely; time literally FROZE for me and I mean that exactly how you’d imagine that to be.
It’s impossible to explain that feeling in human language but I thought I’d mention.
What did you take? A big does of mushrooms? DMT?
*dose
"It literally outruns its brain's ability to keep up..." Sounds like some people I meet at work on a daily basis.
In the case of time passing faster as we age, we could be experiencing each day as less novel as the days go by. Your first day was your first, so everything is new to you and you gotta check it all out, but your second day is just a bit more samey and the third even more so. We pay more attention to new things and less attention to old things.
That is a big part of it. There are other factors which I just can't recall at the moment, but GIYF and can fill in the blank there.
There's a creature with flicker fusion frequency of 144 a second.
we call it PC master-race.
Time seems to move slower when I'm stoned, and yet my mind has trouble keeping up. It's like my brain is processing smaller packets of information. So instead of having one solid thought/idea per second, I'm doing two "half-ideas" per second. It works wonders for listening to music, but not so much for keeping up with conversation.
So maybe a well trained baseball player, when "in the zone," is processing smaller packets of thoughts at a much higher frequency.
Flies have tons of lenses on each eye and that’s why we seem like we’re moving really slow. It’s easy to catch a fly, just move your hand really slow when it’s posted on something and it won’t be able to see your hand fast enough to get out of the way.
Great, so my cat's naps are really just power naps then! Thanks SciShow.
What about Shrek?
"You shouldn't invest in costly things if you can't make use of them." -- Tell that my brain pls!
Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey
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I get it
...stuff
Poopedy scoopedy doop
I understood that reference.
luckily i live in the TARDIS ;-)
Time seems to move more quickly as we age because when I was 5, one year was one-fifth of my life and now one year is one fifty-sixth of my life.
You're pretty much correct! For humans time perception seems to be relative to our age.
As a 20 year old, the span from 10 years old to 15 felt like an incredibly long time, while 15-20 years went by so much faster. The next 10 years while likely go by even faster, although making new experiences and traveling seems to slow things down compared to doing the same thing everyday for months on end.
2:07 60 fps? Pff casuals ...
jep 60Hz is nothing! Im pretty sure nearly everone can detect the differnce up to 265Hz at least everyone i tested with was able to tell the differnce!
Even my 97 year old grandma!
36THz or bust!
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Did you use a double blind study?
of course nobody did know on which refreshrate he/she is playing, watching videos or using the desktop/ programms.
I did 24, 30, 60, 75, 100, 120, 144, 165, 200, 240 & 265 and everything with and without G-Sync. in 5 Games 3 desktop enviroments and 5 videos...
its about 95% accurate. Most mistakes where made between 240 & 265Hz and then between 165 & 144Hz.
I mean thats kinda obvious...
Ah G-syncs on other Monitors freesync has a huge impact too - its about 1 gap, so 60 feels about the same as 75Hz, 120 as 144Hz etc.! :)
But sometimes this sync causes imput lag... its tricky...^^
1.9x10^43 FPS or you aren't trying!
Jokes for Nerds!
I was just wondering the other day where the movie trope of "being smaller makes big things move slower" came from.
Thank you SciShow for calming my thoughts.
I remember my childhood being all slow and chill, now days go so fast...
I've always wondered what kind of thought process occurs in a mind that has no language to speak/think with. Just feelings?
You don't need to think with language in your head to do stuff.
When I drop lsd, minutes seem like hours and hours seem like minutes.
That's such an accurate portrayal of lsd. Astute observation.
Dude
That's my _normal_ time perception.
Time definitely goes by faster when you get older; or at least, perceptively. A year used to seem like forever as a kid and now I just about get used to the year being, say, 2017, and suddenly it's 2018.
Intense situations (like a car crash) can ramp up our brain's processing speed, and thats why it often seems like its happening in slow motion.
No wonder the DMV moves so slowly they see in turtle time.
Matt Jasa They see in sloth time
They see in "I don't give a F about your needs, enjoy socialism" time.
I know this video is about other animals, not people. But I'm somewhat disappointed they don't mention how when on phycodelics like mushrooms, minutes can feel like hours, and on high doses of DMT years can pass only to sober up and see its only been 30 minutes.
ToXiiC BULLET I feel the effect in that case is much less extreme but definetly still worth talking about. I wish sciscow would dedicate a series to psycoactives, it would be very interesting.
I distinctly remember as a child how time used to pass so slowly. And there was that one time being on psychedelics, staring at a watch while freaking out as each passing second felt like an eternity. These days time vanishes in the blink of an eye. I'm getting older. :/
Time feels like it's at a stand still for me. Unless i'm on UA-cam, then it flies at supersonic speeds.
Music sounds noticably faster right after I wake up, and slows to "normal" after I've really sobered up again.
exactly!
Music sounds noticably faster if I take off my headphones. By something like 50%, too. But every second as per clock handle feels the same anyway.
I know for sure time felt different when I was younger. A day felt like a really long time since a 1 hour time out felt like a whole day, and a summer vacation felt like a year does now. However, this goes by overall time and not shorter amounts of time, which still felt like longer but not by that much
ToXiiC BULLET our vacation is actually a little over 2 months, so about 9 weeks. I’m in USA
I doubt that it's that different from how we perceive time. But, like how time "crawl" when we stare at the second ticking away 1 sec at a time, for a pet for example a dog. The Dog would have little to no distraction and would be aware of what's happaning around them without "day dreaming". So like how everything slows down when we concentrate really hard on it, a dog would feel the same, slower when not a lot is happaning and faster when they get really excited.
When I was younger......a day felt like forever......and now that I'm older....time seems to just fly by
"fishes"
Midas800 As soon as I heard it I paused the video and looked for the comment. 😂
Ha!!
"Fishes" refers to various species. It's not wrong.
@@DANGJOS 🍻
@2:40 I knew it, she has a chip on the shoulder!!! :D
Nah, pretty sure that was Dale
@@tvdan1043- This made me laugh! Totally underrated comment!
As a kid and a teen, a year felt like a year. In my 20 it felt like 6 months. Now that I'm in my 30, a year feels like barely 3 months.
Yup, when your a child growing up time seems to go quite slow due to the brain learning something new every day. By the time you are an adult you have mostly experienced a lot of the things you do on a daily basis. Your brain goes on autopilot mode there by you feel time going faster because you don't notice the work you do. Although staring at the clock will slow time down at least for yourself do to your impatience to get out of work/school.
Theres been several times when not sleep deprived but if i get a certain amount of sleep when I wake up, in a couple of minutes everything seems to slow down and for about 30 minutes It’ll seem slow, i cant explain it, by the time i get out of it, it felt like a dream, i don’t know if i just need more sleep but thats a weird thing about me if u wanted to know
Im 15
Idk amigo
Ya same sometimes if I wake up early each minute seems way slower than normal. It
I think it was Einstein who once made this comparison:
If you kiss someone you love for one minute, it feels like a second, but if you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it feels like an hour.
BertyFromDK only a genius would say that
If your girlfriend complains about sex being over too soon, just tell her time flew because she was having fun.
Who the fvck would sit on a hot stove for a minute
@@basrengangetch.2042 exactly, no one. Your brain hates it, and can't ignore it, which means they experience and process every grueling second while waiting for it to be over. A watched clock never finishes, I believe is the saying. Whereas kissing someone you love, that's rapture. It's exciting, wonderful. Everything seems quicker because there's never enough.
Well this video felt like an eternity to me.
TIME IS RELATIVE.
Time feels the same to anyone from their perspective / pivot point.
If humans are truly 60fps, why cam i tell the difference between a 90 and 120 hz setting in my games?
I've always thought super perception would be an awesome superpower if you had the ability to turn it on and off. Adrenaline has an affect on perception right? Seems like things are slower when you have that stuff flowing through your veins like during sports.
2:05 10 years ago console players thought you couldn't even see past 30 fps.
I've had time pass at different rates depending on the situation. Whenever I was about to experience a motorcycle collision with a car, time seemed to slow to a crawl. It was over in less than 2 seconds but I had time to consciously get limbs out of harms way and determine the trajectory my body would take afterward to avoid obstacles such as lamp posts if possible.
this makes so much sense. i remember my first year of school taking so long, feeling like forever. the past few years for me have been so much faster.
as well, i can remember being able to process so much more so much faster as a kid. I was a lot better at video games back then, but now i’m slow af and it so sad and disappointing because i just can’t do as good as i could when i was younger at some things.
Excellent video chock full of interesting information. Before I clicked on I was bracing for your standard hummingbird research. 👍
2:08
*scoff*
60 fps?
lol
Surely it's more like 25?
Shorter neural pathways, faster processing, slower perception of peripheral time. Explains everything presented in this video without resorting to evolution or energy consumption vs. benefit balance.
This is a hypothesis I had as a kid when looking at how quickly small animals and insects moved. Glad science is catching up with me, three to four decades later. :-P
I definitely remember time being reaaaaally slow as a kid. It gradually got faster over the years, bit by bit.
You can make time fly
Throw a clock out your window
without memory time perception cannot be understood fully, if you dont remember the day how can you say if it has gone fast or slow?
Well it's all relative...... but only we can conceptualise the difference. There's also very few animals who have no memory, even flies can learn and recall.
there's a big difference between how we perceive things after the fact, and how we perceive them moment to moment, though.
i.e., if you take a drug that stops you forming new memories for a while, you still perceive the world at a certain rate while on the drug, right? then after the fact, the day may seem shorter than usual-but maybe not.
realistically, how much of your day do you remember before you go to bed?
toni There are perceptions of time that aren't based on memory like circadian rhythms.
Even your "moment to moment" perceptions of the "present" are technically slightly always in the past though due to light's travel time and the processing time of your eye/brain combo system. Even our perception of the "present" is always really the slight past. It's weird when you overthink it, lol.
I definitely remember feeling how time passed more slowly when I was younger and noticing the change of it seeming to pass more quickly as I got older. I'm sure most if not everyone has had this experience. As you mentioned with the baseball players, people have experiences where time seems to speed up or slow down in a specific situation. It really makes you think about perception and on how if there really is a right way to perceive things that we tend to think of as objectively set like time.
I think you're onto something. I perceived time far faster as an adult than I ever did as a child. As a child, things took forever. As an adult it seems to be too fast to keep up. My grandma always said as she got older the years went faster and faster. She's got a point.
As for my cats, guess it helps me understand them a little better knowing what their perception of time is. Very interesting, and may help us understand time a little better. I wonder how physics plays into the biological perception? Seems like physics and biology contradict each other on a lot of things.
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I think children perceive time as slower because time is perceived as fractions of a lifetime.
I remember my childhood. I did perceive time slower. Because one year was much longer when I'd only lived three of them.
I always thought time moved slowly for kids because they experienced new things all of the time. But for adults the new things they could experience were minimum. Atleast that's what I come to understand on another video awhile back.
Whoa dude this is crazy. Time is slow and fast
Some would even say it's relative.
Amy Farrah Fowler
I could listen to Olivia explain away the entire encyclopedia.
Time seems slower when you're younger, because when you're 5 a year is one 5th of your life, but when you're 45, a year is one 45th of your life.
That was really interesting, and something that I'd never thought of before. Thanks for sharing this with us, Olivia.
Oh...it's the lady that gets seizures as she talks. No thanks. I'll just Google it instead.
What are you even talking about
I'd buy the different between adults and kids. When I was little summer vacation seemed to last forever. Now summer is gone before I really seem to get a chance to enjoy it.
Thinking faster "zooms in" on the time it takes for it to finish - making the whole moment seem to have taken longer.
Imagine it being an adjustable pixel setting, and experienced time moves through a fixed amount of pixels at any given moment.
More pixels to process, more experienced time is present.
In sleep we basically put our thinking on pause - making time feel nothing has been processed.
Stop commenting if you’re just going to say “first” or the like.
you're the first to make this comment on this video. :P
If your point is that people shouldn't comment things that don't add anything of value to the video then really you should have abstained from writing yours =p
When a video is monetized, each "interaction" bumps the payment up a tiny bit, or at least makes it look more popular. Watching, liking, and commenting all count as interactions, so even if a comment doesn't add any info, it does count for something.
Laezar that wasn’t my point. I meant what I said.
My doggo's time must feel like hell because i keep annoying her because she's so cute owo
This is why I love SciShow, I always thought this when I was a kid but I never knew, and now I do
"The Love Spot It's not what you think it is," but it's still used for doin it. *Smirks, flips hair and smacks ass*
Don't humans have the fastest processing with the axon isolation and stuff?
For many small creatures this isn't even necessary because of the very short distances neural impulses have to travel, which makes communication between different parts of their bodies super fast
Mark Molenaar being small is fast got it
My cats can catch things that move too fast for me to see...
cats have evolved senses to counter the speed of the small animals they are easly able to percive were something is going to be before it's there though not always perfect its good enough to make cats in the top 5 or maybe 10 preditors in terms of success rate in hunting
Keianna , my sweetest cat is relentless at bringing home small dead things.
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Kbc oh that's cleaver very subtle barely noticeable
This a troll?
The reason why time seemed so slow to us when we were kids is because we’re learning something new everyday. Taking in all this new information on a daily basis makes us really be present for the entire time unlike when you’re an adult every day is the same, we get used to a mundane and repetitious schedule so we basically go on autopilot and the time slips right past us. So basically you want to make your time feel longer, learn something new as often as you can and get out of your comfort zone to create memorable experiences
I am 50 years old, and the years definitely seem to be going by far more rapidly now than they did when I was young. Between the ages of 18-21 I lived in Dundee. I've now been back in my home town for 8 years. But it feels like I was in Dundee for far longer than I've been back here.
Maybe it's because I was doing so much more back then, new things and learning all the time. Or maybe time does feel faster as you get older. Beats me.
I want to believe she’s smart, but when all her sentences sound like questions it makes it hard to hold that belief.
Indeed it does. It drives me up a flippin' wall when people do that too. Then couple that with the mini-bounces and the bobble-head maneuvers...
time slows down when you hear Olivia
elikopo kopo shitty pick up lines lol
I always theorized this was the case, but never thought to look it up. Neat!
Damn Tortoises must be enjoying some hella good frames per seconds on the the next call of duty.
fishes... seriously?
AneeJ Yes, "fishes" since she wasn't referring to only one type.
Eric Brizendine yeah but isn't the plural of "fish" just "fish"?
Tbh this not my native language so, maybe wrong
Luis Gerardo The plural of fish is usually still 'fish', but when you're talking about multiple species, it becomes fishes.
i was literally scrolling through the comments to find one about them saying "fishes" so that i could say that "fishes" is the correct plural when you're referring to more than one type of fish. looks like someone else got here first
loser face LMAO!!
SOooo... hooot...
Thomas Boulet ?????
she. She's hot
I thought you were calling her an owl.
I remember asking my dad about this when I was 5ish. I asked why time is so slow. He told me it’s fast for him and mom because of our ages. When you’re 5, a year has been 1/5 of your life. And when you’re 30, a year has been 1/30th of your life. As you get older, it’s a smaller fraction of your life so it seems faster
Psychedelics have shown me that you can spend forever in a moment
Vergos001 , yep, can confirm.
male sci show presenters: get their facts and research picked apart by viewers
female sci show presenters: get their appearance and style choices insulted by viewers
Just enjoy the science people!
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Normal people: wow 60 frames a second is so much!
Specifically pc gamers: i cAn sEE ThE frAMes!!!
twinkle in her eye when she said "LoveSpot"