Is Time Moving Faster?

[ShrinkyLink]

Seriously. Do you look back to the past and think of all those glorious afternoons, reading and playing games, when the hours just stretched?

Now, it seems I just sit down at night (after work, after housework, after family), I open a book, and....I'm asleep. It takes weeks to finish a book where it once took days. The issues of Dragon and Dungeon just keep piling up. Time just moves faster and faster, making me think that we must be in some sort of temporal gravity well.

So, how much time do you think you get each day just to read/game/be yourself?

 

[Jdvn1]

C'est la vie.

If I'm lucky, I get an hour a day. Then again, I'd be procrastinating other stuff while I did that, so.

 

[IronWolf]

Time certainly seems to move faster as i get older! I remember Christmas used to take forever to show up, now it seems like it's here and back again before you know it.

I do pretty good getting some time to do things I want though. Work during the day, hang out with the family and then some time with the books or laptop in late evening.

 

[Krieg]

Welcome to the wonderful world of growing older....

 

[twofalls]

Time is elastic in direct proportion to perception.

 

[lonesoldier]

Why...

Yes, I believe you are correct in your deduction Dr. Link.

Time just seems to fly by. Alternately waving at you or mooning you.

 

[fusangite]

Apparently, the rate at which we experience time is as a fraction of the total amount we have experienced. So, to a 60 year old an hour feels like 20 minutes would to a 20 year old.

 

[Goblyn]

Apparently, the rate at which we experience time is as a fraction of the total amount we have experienced. So, to a 60 year old an hour feels like 20 minutes would to a 20 year old.

Ye beat me to it, Fusy.

 

[Pinotage]

Well, technically you're correct as well. According to relativity, if you're completely motionless, your position in spacetime is completely in the time domain. If you start moving around, doing things etc, then you divert some of the position into space, hence slowing down time. Of course, it's not really noticable if you're not moving at speeds close to the speed of light, but time does move slower when you're actively busy. If you sit still to read all those dragon magazines, time goes as fast as it can! You should read while jogging or cycling and then it'll take ages.

Pinotage

 

[Henry]

...Now, it seems I just sit down at night (after work, after housework, after family), I open a book, and....I'm asleep...So, how much time do you think you get each day just to read/game/be yourself?

Emphasis mine. Been there, doing that, got the neck cramp from falling asleep in the wrong position. As for your last question, About two hours, I'd say, not counting the little five and tem minute breaks I sneak in at work to answer these boards.