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Most of the reasonings I've read here deal with what we do with time, and not our perceptions of time.
I've been thinking about this alot lately... I'm 22 years old, and becoming an insomniac because the days are over before I wake up.
My thought:
When we are observing, learning, and actively engaged in new experiences, our minds are focused on individual moments. Weather this is learning to drive, pondering social interactions, taking pictures of new places, or learning as a child that spinning around makes you dizzy - when we are focused on these new experiences, our perception of time "slows."
As we get older, we become more and more accepting of what occurs around us and within our bodies. We do not question, we simply accept, and focus our energy on the things in general. We stop focusing on the fancyness of each individual moment, and focus on days, weeks, months of processes.
Or that's my take on it.. I recently went to Morocco, and everything there was a new experience. With the two weeks I spent there, I carry more time with it than a friend who spent a year in Iceland (they got in their groove, and that was that, nothing new).
hm... /end ramble .. time to sleep..
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