Have you ever noticed that time seems to pass faster and faster as you get older, and why is that?
Why does it feel like time is faster the older you get?
In 1860, the German psychologist Hermann von Helmholtz did an interesting experiment, he asked the subject to judge the difference in brightness between two light sources, at first the difference between the two was very small, the subject was difficult to perceive the difference in brightness, but as the difference between the two increased, to a certain value, the fittest began to perceive the difference in brightness.
This experiment tells us that there is a pre-value for human sensation, and that sensation and perception are not always so direct, and the pre-value of this sensation is called the minimum perceptible difference, and a large number of experiments have proved that the minimum perceptible difference has a constant ratio, which is 1:16。
For example, if you can distinguish between 100 and 101 grams of items by feeling, then the corresponding 200 grams of items must be increased to at least 203 grams to be able to distinguish them, which is also the first law in the history of psychology - Weber's law.
Just like we often hear a sentence in life that you have changed, not as good to me as before, in fact, the other party may not change at all, what has changed is your feeling, the same care, now for you, may be as bland and tasteless as boiled water, all our sensory feelings, do not follow a linear relationship, but a kind of narrative relationship.
If you want to feel stronger, you have to feel a stronger stimulus than you are, so the senses are more focused on proportions than absolute values.
At the age of 10, this long journey of life has just begun, every day looking forward to growing up quickly, at that time a year only occupies 1 10 of life, 50 years old, a year is 1 50 in life, time has not changed, what has changed is its proportion in your life.
So when did you feel that time was starting to get faster?
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