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      "As we age, with routine, responsibilities, and digital life, our perception of time can feel like it is accelerating.\n\nIt is not time itself that changes. Part of the problem is that our presence inside time decreases.\n\nThis article gathers a few ideas, tools, and references around awe, attention, and meditation to get out of autopilot and give more depth to the hours we already have."
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  "content": "I first wrote this reflection in French.\nYou can read the French version here: [French version](https://nostria.app/a/nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq9dpnzwzcjpld3h33uka5ypn39aqqdnf73ylct76f730kmyjzzgqqyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qqjd4hhjvm0xd4xj7pjd3kh2artd438z9hh00j)\n\n---\n\nI am reacting here to a [tweet I saw on X](https://x.com/brain_stimulus/status/2051673943526744309) about this strange feeling that time seems to pass faster and faster.\n\nI do not think time is physically accelerating.\n\nBut I do think our perception of time can really compress with age, routine, stress, and digital life.\n\n---\n\n# Does time pass faster as we age?\nAs we get older, time seems to fly by.\n\nWe are more occupied, caught up in work and responsibilities, with our heads full.\n\nResult: fewer discoveries, less awe, less presence in the moment.\n\nAs a child, the brain is still discovering the world: it scans, observes, encodes.\n\nEverything seems bigger and the days seem longer, not because time changes, but because the experience is denser.\n\n[Study on age and the subjective speed of time](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0961463X13478052)\n\nWith age, the brain already knows a lot.\n\nIt recognizes, anticipates, automates, saves energy. Useful, but we live some moments less fully.\n\nAnd when routine settles in, days go by without leaving many traces.\n\nYou are no longer really in the moment.\n\nYou are managing the next moment.\n\nNo need to go into a strange theory.\n\nAnd digital life accelerates all of this even more.\n\nDigital life de facto accelerates our perception of time because it removes empty spaces.\n\nWe almost never get bored anymore, we almost never stop.\n\nAs soon as there is a gap, we fill it.\n\nThe brain is constantly functioning.\n\nBut constantly functioning does not necessarily mean being present.\n\nAwe, as Dacher Keltner talks about it, is that moment when something breaks the autopilot. Suddenly, the brain stops only managing.\n\nIt observes.\n\nAnd when it truly observes, time regains depth.\n\n[Huberman Lab — Dacher Keltner on awe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmw2dW0a9DY)\n\nThat is also why meditation is interesting.\n\nWe believe stopping is counterproductive.\n\nWe think we do not have time, so we never stop.\n\nBut maybe it is precisely because we never stop that time disappears.\n\n[Study — Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22886132/)\n\nMeditation does not create more hours.\n\nIt gives presence back to the hours we already have.\n\nAnd paradoxically, when you recover presence, you can sometimes do more with less.\n\nSo no, I do not think time is accelerating.\n\nI think we become more automatic, more stressed, more loaded, more fragmented.\n\nAnd digital life amplifies all of this.\n\nThe real question is not only:\n\n“Why does time pass faster?”\n\nIt is rather:\n\n“What is stealing my presence?”\n\n[Huberman Lab — Space-Time Bridging Meditation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9fiJBdMG0)",
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