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> slowing down passage of time

My days/months have been flying by and I thought I was just because I'm getting older. Thanks for mentioning this in the context of working from home. I feel a little better now.

Maybe I should get an office job too.

[theshrike79]

> My days/months have been flying by and I thought I was just because I'm getting older.

The theory behind this is that your brain "compresses" memories. Identical days are just stored as "and here I spent 5 days working". And if your weekends are mostly similar, then it's just "And then I spent 12 weeks doing routine shit".

For kids time seems to move slower because everything they experience is new and can't be "compressed".

As an adult you can emulate this by doing things you haven't done before, getting new experiences.

[saiya-jin]

This is why backpacking around some crazy 3rd world countries is so intense, 2 weeks feel like few months, and 3 months felt like several lifetimes. It was so surreal when I first experienced it, after ie 2 months in India the memory of life back at home was a distant memory of a dream since every single day was an endless stream of completely new experiences and encounters.

Do yourself a favor, anytime you have vacation try to do and see something different, new, every day. Even now with small kids, when we try this our vacations feel much longer than they actually are. But prepare to be more exhausted, although I call it 'good exhaustion'.

I call it prolongation of life mentally, the best we have for now (apart from physical aspect of living healthier obviously).

[dclowd9901]

Stasis causes memory to meld together. Even an office job will become a stasis at some point.

If you really want to undercut that effect, inject new experiences into your life as often as possible.

[Ancalagon]

Really the answer is to just quit working and become a hunter/gatherer, or travel the world.

I’m only half-joking.