Remember when you lot were a kid and summer holiday crawled by and an afternoon could seem endless. It's the contrary now, right?

As a busy adult and business owner your days probably pass by in a whirl of activeness -- so much so that whole weeks or months can feel like they're racing past, like you lot just put your head downward for a second and now half a year has gone.

Information technology'southward a familiar if frustrating feeling, but what's backside it and is there anything you tin can exercise to get dorsum the lazier pace of time from when yous were younger? This is your life later all and you lot want to wring as much experience from it as you tin can.

The buffer web log recently offered a helping hand, pulling together the latest insights from neuroscience on why we perceive time as we do and how nosotros can manipulate our lives to slow down our experience of time passing. Our sense of time, it turns out, isn't even. Information technology'due south dictated by how much information we demand to procedure -- more data spells more time, which is why our younger years, when we're processing lots and lots of new stuff, seem to pass and so slowly.

The bones idea was laid out neatly in a fantastic contour of neuroscientist David Eagleman in the New Yorker:

The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that fourth dimension speeds upwardly when we abound older," Eagleman said - why babyhood summers seem to get on forever, while old age slips past while nosotros're dozing. The more familiar the earth becomes, the less information your encephalon writes down, and the more quickly fourth dimension seems to pass.

The details of this are upacked in greater detail in the buffer mail so check it out if y'all're interested in the finer points of your brain'due south inner workings. But understanding why time flies is one thing, being able to practice something about it is another. Tin we voluntarily do anything to recapture the slower passage of time in order to savor our hours?

Buffer offers 5 suggestions all of which revolve around one central idea -- to ho-hum downwards time, feed your brain more new stimulus to chew over. This might seem counter-intuitive. Our first impulse to deadening downward would most likely be to stop doing as much and minimize stimuli by kicking back in a hammock or on a beach somewhere. That sort of slacking has it'southward advantages obviously, but these tricks are actually more likely to make your days experience rich and long:

Keep learning. If you're constantly reading, trying new activities or taking courses to learn new skills, you'll have a wealth of 'newness' at your fingertips to help y'all tedious down fourth dimension.

Visit new places. A new environment can send a mass of information rushing to your encephalon - smells, sounds, people, colors, textures. Your encephalon has to translate all of this. Exposing your brain to new environments regularly will give it enough of work to do, letting y'all enjoy longer-seeming days. This doesn't necessarily mean world travels, though. Working from a cafe or a new part could do the fox.

Meet new people. We all know how much energy we put into interactions with other people. Unlike objects, people are complex and take more attempt to 'process' and empathize. Meeting new people, and so, is a good workout for our brains.

Endeavor new activities. Doing new stuff ways y'all have to pay attention. Your encephalon is on high alarm and your senses are heightened, because you're taking in new sensations and feelings at a rapid rate.

Exist spontaneous. Surprises are similar new activities: they make the states pay attention and heighten our senses.

Is your love of routine making your life fly past?