Why Does Time Fly By As You Get Older?
http://www.wbur.org/npr/122322542
Scientists have theories, of course, and one of them is that when you experience something for the very first time, more details, more information gets stored in your memory.
When it's the "first", there are so many things to remember. The list of encoded memories is so dense, reading them back gives you a feeling that they must have taken forever. But that's an illusion. "It's a construction of the brain," says Eagleman. "The more memory you have of something, you think, 'Wow, that really took a long time!'
Scientists have theories, of course, and one of them is that when you experience something for the very first time, more details, more information gets stored in your memory.
When it's the "first", there are so many things to remember. The list of encoded memories is so dense, reading them back gives you a feeling that they must have taken forever. But that's an illusion. "It's a construction of the brain," says Eagleman. "The more memory you have of something, you think, 'Wow, that really took a long time!'
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