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futura Janet's Law
Each year is a smaller slice of your life (oh, a tiny slice!) / Time flies as your story grows (yeah, it's flying fast!)
futura Humans naturally perceive many physical scales logarithmically, which distorts how we measure the passage of time over decades.
futura Long childhood summers feel endless because they represent a much higher percentage of our conscious memory than adult seasons.
futura Drag memories onto the timeline to discover why time feels faster as you age.
The Janet theory: In 1897, philosopher Paul Janet calculated that a single year feels roughly eight times shorter to an eighty-year-old than to a ten-year-old child.
The state of corresponding in size, degree, or intensity to something else. French philosopher Paul Janet applied this mathematical principle in 1897 to describe how humans perceive aging.
If we measure time proportionally, at what age is the subjective midpoint of an 80-year life?
What is the name of the phenomenon where a trip feels fast while happening but long in retrospect?
Which 19th-century German physicist proved that humans perceive stimuli logarithmically rather than linearly?
Why do childhood memories feel more expanded in our minds compared to adult memories?