How To Slow Down Time, Without Turning Back The Clock

Good Morning.

There’s a strange moment that sneaks up on people.

You look at the calendar and realize a whole season has vanished. The weeks didn’t register. They felt fast. You’re present, then suddenly you’re not, and the days slip through like water.

We tend to blame this on age, as if it’s a one-way law of nature. The older you get, the faster time goes.

But part of that acceleration may be more flexible than it seems.

Psychologists have a word for our felt sense of time: chronoception, the way time feels as it moves through your body and mind. The clock itself is fixed. Your experience of it changes.

In childhood, novelty stretches time. Everything is new, so the brain takes more mental snapshots. A day feels longer.

Later in life, routine can compress time. Not because you’re doing less, but because so much of it is familiar. When the brain knows what comes next, it records less. When it records less, it feels like less has happened.

That’s one reason time seems to speed up.

Curiosity interrupts that.

When you’re genuinely interested, attention narrows to what’s in front of you. You stop running your day on autopilot. You start noticing details again.

Curiosity and creative engagement have been linked to better brain health and emotional well-being as people age. They don’t just change how time feels in the moment. They shape the conditions that influence aging over time.

A lot of what people call “feeling young” is engagement.

Not youthful in a cosmetic sense. Youthful in the alive sense. The sense that you’re still learning, still surprised, still capable of getting absorbed in something long enough to forget the clock

The Time-Stretch Practice

(10 minutes, three times a week)

Pick one. Keep it small. The goal isn’t mastery. It’s mental freshness.

External curiosity: Learn one new thing in a topic you genuinely care about. Not what you think you should care about.
Internal curiosity: Sit with a question that doesn’t have a quick answer. What do you believe now that you didn’t at 25? Why?
Expressive curiosity: Make something. Write a paragraph. Sketch a shape. Try a recipe twist. Talent isn’t required.
Sensory curiosity: Choose something unfamiliar on purpose. A new walking route. A different grocery store. A museum you usually ignore.

If you want a simple test, ask:

Did I do anything this week that made time feel slower while I was doing it?

That question is useful because it points to something real. When nothing slows down, days blur. When something does, life feels more present.

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