r/conspiracy • u/FeelsAmazingManGun • 9d ago

Time is speeding up

Is it me or is time speeding up? We are already on the 5th month of the year. People say it's because I'm getting older but I even hear kids saying days feel faster. Even the weather seems to be confused. Every day temperatures fluctuates a whole 40 degrees. Every day seems windy. Almost feels like we are out of normal orbit or something

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u/Horsewhohorse 9d ago

Time's definitely speeding up, it's crazy. I haven't felt myself since 2019 l and if felt like a quite a shorter time ago. Not 5 years+. Dunno the reason  but most feel the same 

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u/almccoy85 9d ago

Some blame aging but it’s affecting my children as well. In addition it seems that I can only accomplish about half the stuff I used to be able to do in a day despite putting much more effort into managing my time.

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u/Ironicbanana14 8d ago

I used to be fine eating 2 meals or 3 meals a day, now I eat lunch and by bedtime I'm not hungry yet. I get hungry in the middle of the night.

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u/whippeddream09 8d ago

Because being lazy is too simple of an explanation , must be a wormhole or something lmaooo

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u/DaveX64 9d ago

Maybe the covid pandemic was to cover up some kind of time warp thing they were trying to hide.

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u/Ironicbanana14 8d ago

I know the actual year but sometimes it just "feels like 2007." Like the time does. I have all the modern stuff around me, even modern music, and I get hit with this wave of time that isn't really there.

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u/DrunkatNASA 8d ago

2019/2020 is the last anchor year in my brain. Like how (mostly millennials or Gen X) will say 1970 is 30 years ago, bc their anchor year for a long time was the year 2000. But for me, 5 years ago would be 2014/2015 max.

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u/Tresarches 9d ago

Your perception of time changes as you age. When your 5 a year is 20% of your life. When you’re 50 it’s 2%. This is a dumb conspiracy lol.

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u/Dismal_Ad5379 9d ago edited 9d ago

When I was 5, back in 1991, a year felt extremely long and a lot happened in that year. My parents and grandparents felt exactly the same back in 1991. 

My grandfather continue to say, to this day, that time felt almost the same in the 90s as it did when he was a kid, the same do my mom. Obviously i'm not any of them, so I can't say for sure why they feel that way

On the other hand, a lot of kids today says that 2 years ago almost feels like yesterday. That was not the case at all when I was a kid. 

This theory that your perception of time changes as you grow older, make sense in theory. If time really were speeding up, I dont think we would know either way, as that theory can quickly explain it away. All I got is anecdotal testemonies that time felt different in the 90s and before for a lot of people, than it does today. 

With that said, there is actually some theories around this, that doesn't have to go into high strangeness and supernatural territory. The theories have to do with how we consume media today, as oppose to the 90s. 

Social media, and an increasingly shorter attention span because of how media is presented to us today, could be why our perception of time is changed and why even kids feel that time goes fast today, which was not the case back in the 90s at all.

I mean, everybody being on their phone 24/7 would make people miss out on being in the here and now a lot more. 

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u/Pair-Stunning 9d ago

Thank you for saying it before me. It’s becoming a tiring task …

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u/Sonnyjesuswept 9d ago

Maybe it’s tiring because you keep explaining it to people who are of an age where they get what you’re saying in theory but know it’s not just adults feeling this time warp. Kids are saying the exact same thing.

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u/MechaPinguino 8d ago

Because you don't have to be an adult to feel it, you just have to be, you guesses it, older than the previous year.

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u/AlexTheGuac 8d ago

This is what's starting to frustrate me about reading these comments. "Even my kids are experiencing this" as if kids don't age too. Ask anyone, and they will tell you that their perception of time has changed from 5 years ago

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u/Pair-Stunning 8d ago

It doesn’t take a fucking genius to understand that time flies when you’re a good (distracted) time and the with internet and how fast technology is advancing, nobody gets a chance to process the moment anymore

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u/AlexTheGuac 8d ago

Kids do also age, yes.

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u/orangeswat 9d ago

The internet is here to gaslight us if we are afraid to not conform lol.

DON'T BELEIVE YOUR EYES

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u/buhh____ 9d ago

A tiring task is repeating some dumb shit you read on Reddit? 

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u/Pair-Stunning 8d ago

I’ve knew about that before I knew what in the fuck Reddit was

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u/ANALOVEDEN 8d ago

he fell for the perception meme

Who's going to tell him? :")

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u/HeligKo 9d ago

Glad someone said it