Your Life is Half Over!
Just heard a radio show on NPR today about this guy who has a new book about our perceptions of the passage of time. The idea is that when we are young time seems to creep by more slowly than when we are older. So, the summer vacation of your 10th year seemed long and full; while your summer vaca this year may have seemed much quicker. This guy's done computations that reveal that though you may 60 years ahead of you, it will speed by much faster than you think. Bottom line: in terms of perception of time passing, your life is half over.
I can't help but compare this to the reminiscence bump theories. Do we remember more info from the teens to mid-twenties because we have more time to encode them (as time is moving perceptually more slowly). Einstein would certainly have something to say about this, but I'm not smart enough to know what that might be.
Any thoughts?