As time gets faster through the years is that the out come of the growth in knowledge of oneself?
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It seems that the mechanisms by which the brain takes time into account are not yet fully understood. It is also variable, according to your state of being at a given moment. For example, in deep mediation, what seems a second is nearer three minutes in reality. Everybody knows that when you are having fun, time flies, and when you are in the dumps it drags.
Some is aquired knoweldge, the accuracy of modern clocks is astounding and one gets used to what a period of an hour is like. There is also the aspect of instinctive rythm, usually referred to as Biorythm. Interesting experiments show that a person isolated underground with no interaction with the outside world for a couple of months will establish a rythm of 36 hours of waking and 12 hours of sleep. Science is stumped to account for that very fundamental rythm. Some use it to claim we came from elsewhere.
As far as time seeming to pass more quickly as you age, there apears to be a different explanation. Part is that your brain processing slows down a little with age. Thus to achieve the same amount of writing it takes you a little longer than you have been used to, and thus time seems to have passed quicker. Sometimes I look at the clock and think it cannot possibly have taken me half an hour to just write three paragraphs!
Also there is the sense of it related to how long you have lived. For a week old baby, a day is 1/7th of its life, so subjectively thats a huge amount of time, so it passes slowly. For an old person its more like 1/4,000th of its life. So subjectively it passes very quickly. Months seem like weeks and years seem like months.