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As I get older, it seems that the weeks, months and years go by faster each year.  I think this is a fairly common experience and occasionally ponder why this is.

One theory is that as you get older, you settle into a more standard routine.  My months don’t vary as much from month to month as they did when I was younger.  As interesting as my job is, I spend most of my days in the same chair, in the same room in front of the same computer.  As a kid my days were a bit more unpredictable.  Do young people have more milestones to mark the passage of time?  More unique experiences to remember?

Perhaps at the end of each day, your mind compresses your memories for storage? If you have worked with video compression, you know that video that doesn’t change much from frame to frame compresses better than video with lots of motion.  Maybe when you look back the last year, your brain adds up your unique memories and estimates how much time has passed based on the amount of compressed data.

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If you have any alternative theories or disagree that time perception changes with age, let me know in the comments.