When I was little time was hyperfast, but now that I'm growed, everything's slowed down. A day is an eternity. Which is cool, because I think that's the opposite of how most people perceive time. Adults talk about time passing so quickly, but last week seems like 10 years ago to me. I like this way better, to tell you the truth.

As fatalistic as this sounds, years are no longer a long time to me. This has the resulting suck-ass side effect of making life seem really, really short.

Unless a video game I'm looking forward to is coming out. At that point, a year is just a nebulous concept, but a week is a really long time.

Time is slow from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm weekdays, then races from 5:00 pm to 8:30 am and weekends.

It depends. If I'm waiting for something, time goes slowly. If I have a looming deadline or something else I'm not looking forward to, time zips by.

Depends. Workdays are an eternity. Days off fly by.

Ha ha, you said "Depends."

Come to think of it, I think Divine_Wino might could use a pair in this thread over here.

That's like that old chestnut:

What does 70-year old pussy taste like?
Depends.

Time takes forever when it's going on, unless I'm really enjoying myself and/or procrastinating (like right now) but when it's over it seems to have gone by in a flash. Go figure.

It's not that time goes faster now than when I was a kid - it's just that every day is a smaller and smaller percent of my total life lived. When I was 5, summer was a huge deal - 5% of my life!, but now, three months are hardly anything.

But yes, the 8-hr work day goes slower when I'm working 40 hr. weeks than when I'm working from home...

I think perception of time is based on a concept that can be best explained by a mathematical formula.

The variable x1 and x2 denote the start and end point of a unit of time. x2 - x2 is the amount of time that the period actually took.

p(x1,x2) is the amount of time a period seemed like. (p stands for perception).

e_i is an even that happens in your life. I in this case would be an index into all the events that have ever happened in your life

s(e_i) is the salience of an event. Salience means how you remember an event.

t(e_i) is the time that an event occurred.

My feeling is that p(x_i,x_j) = ∑(s(e_k)) such that {t(e_k)| ∈ [x_i - x_i]}

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in other words, how long an amount of time seems is equal to the sum of the events that happened where each event is multiplied by it's salience.

also, it does seem like long, long periods of time (like years) go much faster then when I was younger, since it represents a shorter period of your life.

A week is a day. A year is but a moment.

I am now dead. Nice knowin' ya.

Time goes faster and faster as I get older. I am hoping (quite desperately, actually), that time will eventually accelerate so much that it will turn back on itself and I will become young again. The only black cloud in this is that, were I to suddenly become young again, I would most likely make the same stupid fucking mistakes all over again and be back here on MeCha whining about my life to all your grandchildren.

I guess what delmoi said. I was going to say that the passage of time is fairly illusory; we perceive sequences of events. "Time flies when you're having fun" because for most people this involves a fair number of exciting things happening all at once. When nothing is happening, you're bored, and time passes slowly. Few things are happening to sequentially advance time.

8 days on-shift is an eternity; 6 days off, but a moment.

can someone explain the depends joke? what is "depends" supposed to sound like?

Depends is a brand of incontinence napkins.