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# Why Does Time Feel Like It's Speeding Up as I Get Older?

Why does time feel like it's speeding up as you get older? It's not the clock—it's memory. The real science, and how to make your life feel longer again.

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## Why Does Time Feel Like It's Speeding Up as I Get Older?

`~20 min | September 25, 2026`

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Time feels like it's speeding up as you get older not because the clock is moving faster, but because your memory is recording less of your life. Childhood is packed with firsts that the brain stores in vivid detail; adulthood settles into routine that the brain compresses into near-identical days, so whole years collapse when you look back — and that emptiness feels like speed. In this solo episode, Brett Ingram explains why the popular "fraction of your life" theory falls short, why optimizing your days actually makes the problem worse, and how to make your weeks "thick" enough to remember.

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## What You'll Learn in This Episode

- Why time feels normal, even slow, while you're in it — and only disappears in the rear-view mirror
- The proportional theory Paul Janet proposed in 1877, and why it's elegant but probably not the real cause
- William James's 1890 explanation of how routine makes "the years grow hollow and collapse"
- Claudia Hammond's Holiday Paradox, and why your mid-teens to mid-twenties take up so much room in memory
- Why the feeling that time is racing is closely tied to feeling rushed — and why productivity is the wrong cure
- The difference between thin time and thick time, and the three levers that thicken it: novelty, attention, and marking
- Where the idea stops: why routine is load-bearing, novelty-chasing is its own trap, and hard seasons are allowed to blur
- The Thick Week — a two-part weekly practice that takes about sixty seconds of reflection

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## Episode Timestamps

- `[00:00]` The third Tuesday you can't remember
- `[01:05]` Introduction
- `[01:45]` The rear-view blur: two different clocks
- `[03:25]` The proportional theory and why it's probably wrong
- `[05:25]` William James: "the years grow hollow and collapse"
- `[07:25]` The Holiday Paradox
- `[08:10]` Brett's family vacations vs. the forgotten work stretches
- `[08:50]` The reminiscence bump: memories per year
- `[10:00]` Why "just do more" is the trap
- `[11:00]` The research: feeling rushed makes time feel faster
- `[12:05]` Two versions of a Saturday
- `[13:05]` Stop saving time, start making it thick
- `[13:30]` Three levers: novelty, attention, marking
- `[15:20]` The honest caveats
- `[17:00]` The Thick Week practice
- `[18:50]` Key takeaways and closing

---

## Episode Summary

Try to remember what you did on the third Tuesday of last month. For most people, it isn't misplaced — it's gone, as if it was never written down at all. That small blank sits underneath one of the most common sentences of adult life: *I can't believe how fast time is going.* And underneath that sentence is a quieter fear. If it's already moving this fast, and it only speeds up from here, will you just blink and be seventy?

Brett Ingram opens by getting precise about the feeling. Time doesn't actually feel fast while you're living it. A boring Wednesday afternoon still crawls; a long meeting is still eternal. What's warped is the retrospect. You turn around to find the year, the decade, and there's almost nothing there. The days are fine. It's the years that have gone hollow. There are two clocks at work — the one you live in and the one you remember with — and the gap between them is the whole mystery.

The explanation most people have heard is the proportional theory, proposed by the French philosopher Paul Janet in 1877. At five, a year is a fifth of your life; at fifty, it's a fiftieth, so each year feels proportionally smaller. It's elegant and fits on a napkin, but the evidence doesn't support it well as *the* cause. You aren't unconsciously comparing this year against a running total of every year you've lived. Brett also points out a quieter problem with it: it's fatalistic. If time shrinks as a fixed fraction, there's nothing to do but ride it down.

The better explanation came from William James in 1890. Childhood is dense with firsts — the ocean, the bike, the first day of school — and novelty gets recorded in high definition. Then, James wrote, "as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse." The brain doesn't record time like a camera running at a steady speed; it records events, and especially new ones. When the commute, the desk, and the route through the grocery store are the same every day, the brain says "seen it" and files a thousand similar days as roughly one.

The science writer Claudia Hammond calls the everyday version of this the Holiday Paradox. A great trip flies by while you're on it, yet afterward that single week feels enormous — you can walk through it in detail — while the six ordinary weeks that followed have already vanished. Novel time feels fast in the moment and long in memory; routine time feels fine in the moment and evaporates. Brett makes it personal: he can still narrate the family vacations he took with his kids, full of firsts for all of them, while entire years of ordinary work life have left no specific events behind. Same clock time, wildly different amounts of life recorded. The same logic explains the reminiscence bump, the way roughly the mid-teens to mid-twenties stay over-represented in memory for life: first love, first apartment, first job. Those years weren't slower. You recorded more of them. The reframe: you're not running out of time. You're running low on memories per year.

This is where the optYOUmize angle turns sharply against the usual advice. The productivity instinct says that if full days beat empty ones, you should fill every day. But optimizing a day into a frictionless machine creates efficiency, not novelty — and efficiency is repetition. It lays down more of the same blur, faster. Research backs up the cost: in a 2005 study of around 500 people aged 14 to 94, Marc Wittmann and Sandra Lehnhoff found that the feeling of time racing was closely tied to feeling time pressure. The busier you make your life in a panic to make the most of it, the faster it seems to slip away. Brett illustrates it with two Saturdays: one maximized with twelve errands and three life-admin tasks, already a gray smear by Sunday; the other built around one new or fully present thing — a different trail, a long unhurried lunch with a friend, building something with your kid. Fewer boxes checked, but that's the Saturday you'll still have in ten years. The metric that matters isn't how much you got done. It's how much you'll be able to remember.

So the goal shifts: stop trying to save time and start trying to make it thick. Brett names three levers. **Novelty** — small deliberate firsts, like a new route, a new dish, or a place in your own town you've never been. **Attention** — a moment you're fully present for gets recorded, while a moment half-watched over email never makes it to memory at all; [you don't need better time management, you need a better relationship with time](https://optyoumize.com/time-rhythm-rest). And **marking** — landmarks like a Friday check-in or one line in a notebook, because landmarks are how memory measures distance.

He's careful about the limits. Routine is load-bearing and worth keeping; the aim is a life where routine isn't *all* there is. Chasing novelty as a scoreboard is just the productivity trap in a vacation shirt. And some seasons — a newborn, an illness, grief — are supposed to blur, and that's mercy, not failure.

The practice is the Thick Week. At the start of the week, plant one deliberate first. At the end, take sixty seconds to write down what you'll actually keep — not what you accomplished. The episode closes on a single idea: you don't need more time. You need more of your life to register.

---

## Resources Mentioned

- **The Principles of Psychology, Ch. XV "The Perception of Time"** — William James, 1890. Source of the "years grow hollow and collapse" passage and Janet's proportional theory — [https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin15.htm](https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin15.htm)
- **Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception** — Claudia Hammond, 2012. Origin of the "Holiday Paradox" framing — [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16248212-time-warped](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16248212-time-warped)
- **"Age Effects in Perception of Time"** — Marc Wittmann & Sandra Lehnhoff, *Psychological Reports*, 2005. Lifespan survey linking time pressure to the sense that time passes quickly — [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512313/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16512313/)
- **Paul Janet's proportional theory (1877)** — The "each year is a smaller fraction of your life" idea, discussed via James and modern reviews — [https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/why\_does\_time\_fly\_by/](https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/why_does_time_fly_by/)
- **About Time (2013 film)** — Referenced for the father's lesson about living a day a second time just to notice the ordinary good in it
- **The reminiscence bump** — The well-established tendency for roughly ages 15–25 to be over-represented in autobiographical memory
- **Time, Rhythm & Rest pillar** — optyoumize.com/time-rhythm-rest

---

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Why does time feel like it's speeding up as I get older?** Time isn't actually accelerating — your memory is thinning out. In childhood, constant firsts create dense, vivid memories, so those years feel long. In adulthood, routine days blur together and the brain barely records them, so whole years seem to collapse when you look back. That blur is what feels like speed.

**Is time actually speeding up, or is it just my memory?** It's memory. Notice that time doesn't feel fast in the moment — a dull afternoon still drags. The acceleration shows up only in retrospect, when you look back and find little recorded. The clock hasn't changed; the amount of life your brain wrote down has.

**Is the theory that each year is a smaller fraction of your life true?** It's intuitive but weakly supported. The French philosopher Paul Janet proposed it in 1877: a year is a fifth of a five-year-old's life but a fiftieth of a fifty-year-old's. Researchers haven't found strong evidence it's the main driver, and people don't seem to measure time against a running total of their lives. Memory-based explanations built on novelty and routine are better supported.

**Why does a vacation feel long in memory but short while it's happening?** Claudia Hammond calls this the Holiday Paradox. Novel, immersive experiences keep you busy, so the time flies — but they also create many distinct memories, so the trip feels long in retrospect. Routine weeks work the opposite way: fine in the moment, then gone.

**Does being busy make time feel like it goes faster?** It appears to. A 2005 survey of around 500 people aged 14 to 94 by Marc Wittmann and Sandra Lehnhoff found that the sense of time passing quickly was closely tied to feeling time pressure. Packing more into your days to make the most of them can make life feel like it's slipping away faster.

**How can I make time feel like it's slowing down?** Make more of your life register. Add small deliberate firsts, give ordinary moments your full attention, and mark your weeks with landmarks like a short weekly reflection. One simple version is the Thick Week: plant one new thing at the start of the week, then spend sixty seconds at the end writing down what you'll actually remember.

**Should I get rid of my routines to make time feel longer?** No. Routine is load-bearing — it provides safety and stability, and blowing it up would backfire. The aim is a life where routine isn't the only thing happening. Frantically chasing new experiences is its own trap, and some hard seasons of life are supposed to blur together.

---

## Keep Exploring

If this episode resonated, these are worth your time:

- **What Is Time Confetti — and Why Do You Feel So Busy?** — How fragmented hours add to the feeling that time is disappearing → optyoumize.com/blog/what-is-time-confetti-and-why-do-you-feel-so-busy
- **What Is the End of History Illusion?** — Why we assume we're done changing, and what that does to how we see the years ahead → optyoumize.com/blog/what-is-the-end-of-history-illusion-and-why-do-you-think-youre-done-changing
- **What Is Flow State — and How Do You Actually Get Into It?** — Full attention from another angle: the absorbed kind of time that stays with you → optyoumize.com/blog/what-is-flow-state-and-how-do-you-actually-get-into-it
- **Time, Rhythm & Rest** — The pillar this episode belongs to → optyoumize.com/time-rhythm-rest

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