Dr. David Eagleman

Because if time were running in slow motion, that has to be the consequence that everything is spread out.

And they had to allow that it didn't sound like sounds were distorted and so on.

So it is really about having a higher density of memory.

So anytime you're doing something novel, and this actually ties back to the conversation we had before about seeking novelty, whenever you're doing something novel, you're writing down more memory.

And that's the whole key.

So for example, if you spent your last weekend going off and doing something wacky that you'd never done before, parasailing over sharks or whatever the thing is,

You'd come back and you'd think, wow, it seems like it was so long since Friday.

Now it's Monday.

It's been forever since I was back in the studio.

But if you have a normal weekend where you're not doing much of anything but surfing Instagram or something, then you come back and you think, God, it was just Friday.

The difference is just how much memory you clocked and therefore what you can draw on in terms of footage.

I actually think this happens with drugs where people sometimes have the experience on marijuana where they think, wow, I've been standing here forever.

And it's because they're having a hard time

anchoring down on footage about like, when did I arrive to the kitchen?

When, what happened since I've been here?

And so they just, they don't know.

But anyway, the point is, sometimes people have this idea about time speeding up as you get older.

They say, well, you know, to an eight-year-old, a summer is this big fraction of their life.

But to a 50-year-old, it's a smaller fraction.

But I don't think that's it at all.