Someone says that this phenomenon is connected with the work of the brain, the way it perceives. Like, with age, the human brain receives less and less new information for itself, monotonous days without bright discoveries fly by less noticeably, they just fly by ...
That our perception of time is capable of changing is, of course, a fact. Depending on whether we are bored, sitting in one place doing nothing, or are passionate about some kind of activity, we have an interesting time, we travel. But we should not write off everything only on this feature of our perception of time.
As for the age factor, it is generally difficult to compare here.
We may believe that our time is running faster because we are getting older. It follows from this logic that for those who are younger than us, at the stage where they are now, for them time moves at the same speed as we felt it when we were at the same age point.
But we cannot know for sure and cannot compare, take accurate measurements.
Perhaps, indeed, the younger ones perceive time more slowly than us, in the same way as the older ones perceived it before. But it may also be that they perceive it in the same size as the elders. But they do not feel its acceleration. They have so far accumulated little data, the length of time they have lived does not yet allow them to notice the acceleration of time, they simply perceive the current situation as the norm. But later, when they also have enough data to compare and feel that time has accelerated, the speed of their accelerated time by that moment, in fact, will not be equal to the speed of accelerated time that we have now. Because this is not a brain, not about the feeling associated with age, this is a process from another opera. And they will compare their accelerated time with the current slower one, which we already perceive as accelerated, because they managed to catch another slower pace of time.
This is such an interesting theory. If you follow it, then the acceleration of time can be represented as a spiral and not just a spiral, but a funnel - each subsequent rotation around the axis is shorter and, accordingly, the rotation is faster each time.
If we assume that it works something like this, of course, it becomes interesting exactly where in this scheme we are ... how far from the place where the funnel inevitably shrinks to a point and falls somewhere ... Where is unknown, but it is possible to be sure that any funnel that we can observe, wherever it sucks, has some kind of continuation on the other side, and everything that got into the funnel continues to exist there, perhaps in other conditions. Perhaps these conditions are compatible with life for the characters of the previous series, it is possible that for some of them they are no longer. But the movie goes on anyway.
Are we in the place where I directed the arrow in the figure or is it still far away?
However, perhaps all this is really just a subjective impression, which is especially intensified now - in winter, when the days are too short in the Northern Hemisphere, it seems that the day has just come - and it is already evening, one can recall the spiral of accelerating time.
In this image, a T-shirt with my print about the same topic, the print is called the Spiral of the Universe, in fact, when I created it, I had in mind the spiral of time too. Available here if anyone is interested: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/102126648
Poster image: Jossuha Théophile unsplash.com/photos/ZhVKeFCb6NE