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Just an idea:
Perhaps our internal representations of time passing are not based on absolute measures (eg. the minute, the year), but on relative ones, with spans of time compared to the length of the lifespan so far.
In other words, the ratio of absolute time to time alive so far.
Hence, 6 days to a five-year-old would be like 60 days to a fifty-year old. Time would seem to move twice as fast as it did at half your current age.
This seems close, at least.
Any other ideas?
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