For Some Animals, The World Moves in Slow-Motion

Does your cat have a concept of time? Is it different from a snapping turtle's? Scientists study how animals process sensory information to figure out how they experience time. Spoilers: human kids and adults might experience time differently too!

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[headlibrarian]

One thing I miss about being a kid is the “endless summer” phenomenon. Summer is the same pace as every other time of year now.

[swinglow]

Ill tell you, as a child (which is odd cause I just had this conversation) time truly felt slower. Just feeling like I was playing forever before the sun finally set but now as an adult time seems to just pass me by, I miss the days of endless playing!

[fuzzyferretluver]

No wonder dogs get so excited when they see you - it feels like you've been gone way longer than you actually have.

[rndmbs]

watch in .25x speed for the true experience

[MissSpaz]

Children definitely experience the world alot more slowly. I remember being so relieved as I grew up that time wasn't so slow anymore.

[culwin]

Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day.
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

[fireflyf]

So children sense time passing more slowly...

Well, that explains the old, "Are we there yet?" joke, doesn't it?

[keybladesrus]

I sure remember time seeming slower as a kid. Back then, a year felt like forever. Now, a year flies by. It almost feels like we jumped right from 2016 to 2018; 2017 felt like a blur.

[Master_Therion]

2:53 Makes sense that we seem slow to a fly... time flies.

[ThatsSoGiorgio]

Flies have tons of lenses on each eye and that’s why we seem like we’re moving really slow. It’s easy to catch a fly, just move your hand really slow when it’s posted on something and it won’t be able to see your hand fast enough to get out of the way.

[garyreed]

I sometimes experience, what I call, "Time Warps", where I'll perceive an apparent time lapse of 20 - 30 minutes but, in reality, only 5 or so minutes have elapsed. I wish I could do it at will because it would sure save a lot of time when I have to solve a problem. : )

[imcaetano]

Cool video!
I like the ways she speaks, sounds so nice, serious but friendly and smart/wise

[zaksilva-sampaio]

In the case of time passing faster as we age, we could be experiencing each day as less novel as the days go by. Your first day was your first, so everything is new to you and you gotta check it all out, but your second day is just a bit more samey and the third even more so. We pay more attention to new things and less attention to old things.

[a_name_a]

I remember watching an episode of Recess and Arthur, and it went by at a normal pace, now when I go back and watch it I'm astounded at how fast the characters talk and how fast the story goes by.

[Peanutbetter]

I like how the experiment basically boiled down finding the optimal fps for a bunch of different species.

[crispyspa]

Children experience time more slowly... This makes sense to me. When I was a kid summertime seemed to last forever as did the regular school year. As an adult time passes very quickly. Summer is here and gone in the blink of an eye. Strangely enough, winter seems to last FOREVER.

[ghill]

Fantastic. Love putting new info in the mush cabinet of info. Thanks so much

[mehmeh]

Don't kids percieve time more slowly because they don't have as much experience as adults? Like for a kid, a week is forever, but for an adult a week feels like nothing because it's less time in proportion to their lifespan? I don't know that I'm explaining this very well, but basically people percieve time in proportion to their lifespan up to this point. So for a five-year-old, ten years is inconcievably long because they haven't lived for ten years, but for a fifty-year-old man ten years slipped by like sand through his fingers. Meanwhile, for a twenty-year-old ten years is half their current lifetime, so while they understand ten years because they've lived twenty, thirty still seems to be in the distance.

[Mandrake_root]

This makes a lot of sense. I have inattentive ADHD and I've noticed that time seems to fly by when I'm not on my meds but when I take my ADHD medicine time seems to slow down and I'm able to notice more things I'm my surroundings

[Glocktopus]

Is it just me or does time seem to move faster the older you get? A year now seems a lot faster then a year 5 years ago.

And the fact that it feels like time move faster when you’re having fun is also kinda interesting.

And finally, as a person with ADHD I can confirm that it’s very much possible for time to change speed at random times, pretty much all the time