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Being depressed.
Seriously tho for most people the older you get the faster time seems to pass. The relationship to age is not really causal tho afaik. Age just correlates with people leading less interesting lives, being less social and learning less new stuff. Being bored and intellectually stagnant makes subjective time go faster.
Veritasium did a video about the relationship between subjective time perception (chronoception) and age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx2N-viNwY
It is.
It's not just our bodies that want to be lazy, our brains do too.
The longer you live, the less novel situations you are in. When you're doing something you've done a thousands time, your brain doesn't really pay attention anymore, it figures this has been done lots of times and doesn't need a high level of attention.
Most people are familiar with it on a short timeline with "highway hypnosis" where if you've been driving on a boring straight highway/interstate for hours, an hour can go by without you even realizing.
Your brains been driving so long without anything crazy happening, so it just stops worrying about driving.
People think of our brain as a single entity, but different parts handle different things, stuff that's not novel gets tossed to the "autopilot" more and more as we age because we're likely doing the same shit as last time.
I think it also has to do with scale in time vs years lived. For example, if you are 9 years old, 3 years is a third of your entire life; while for a 30 year old, it’s a tenth. So time feels faster for the latter.
Yeah. There's also "processing speed" slowling down. And literally information traveling along our neurons happening slower due to plaque buildup.
It's not just one thing, it's a bunch of things.