Maybe as you get older you have more points of references to gage exactly how fast time is moving. When you’re a kid, what do you really have to do in day? Practically nothing. You’ve only really only got one sign post : Bed Time. And if you complain well enough, that is a variable post.

But when you get older, you have more things to do so you have more points of reference.

To further my pointer: Consider a man, sitting in the most perfect train in the world. So this train moves seemlessly, no bumps no cracks, and the only way you can tell you’re moving is if you look out the window and see the scenery is going by. Now take away all external points of reference. If the motion remains constant you never notice that you’re even moving. There’s gotta be some jolt to let you know you’ve changed speeds (and I am going to assume it doesn’t exist here). Or there’s gotta be some scenery, otherwise you’d never really know how fast you were going).

So I am going to extrapolate on this more. Yes that’s right, evidently I have an assignment due eventually and this is how I procrastinate hah hah. Anyway here’s my thought. I am basing this on a video I once saw called “Imagining the 10 dimensions” or something like that. I thought the way they explained the fourth dimension and our experience of it as three dimensions creatures was nifty…so here’s my idea.

If we move through space time at a constant rate, in something like the perfect train, the only way that we notice we’re moving is if we look at various posts along the way to notice the scenery changing. There are things that change when you’re a kid, but do you really notice them? There’s nothing like in “in 3 days I’ve gotta finish the assignment” [true story]. There’s never anything you have to do that you’re looking at. Here’s how I further compare childhood to growing up.

If all the scenery is exactly the same when you look out the window you never notice that you’re moving either. And then say you’ve got like a random pole. And these random poles are spread very very far apart. So you can measure the distance between your post with help from your watch and get an idea of how fast you’re going. But if the posts are REALLY far apart, that will take a LONG time. And in between all those posts you never really know, you just do your thing. BUT if you’ve got posts that are closer together you can gather more data faster, you can get and idea of how fast you’re moving sooner.

Replace posts with assignments and I think that’s it. So in short, repetitive summary: when all you do all day is play sometimes that’s like a never changing scenery. You don’t worry about things to come as a kid, you take this moment by moment, you never even bother to look for a post in this perfect train through space time. Since there are no jerks, there is nothing to force you acknowledge you’re changing (I am discounting puberty and stuff…hah hah ). But with more responsibility comes great awareness. To further explain myself, do you ever get in a one track mind when playing a video game and not notice how much time has gone by? Do you notice how slowly a boring lesson is going because you’re constantly staring at the clock? Time hasn’t changed rates, you’re just looking for more or less indication of it’s change.

That’s my idea slightly stoled from Einstein (So now you know that’s got like super credibility cause I mean, you wouldn’t mess with the man). I hope that made some sense of what I think happens here.