Time Perception Relation With Age

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

Although many may not believe it until it happens to them, time can pass by so swiftly that one won’t even register it at first. Yes, time passing is a part of life, but the realization of it is another story within itself. “Forgetfulness,” a poem by Billy Collins, and an excerpt from “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White both provide a clear example of how fast time can go by. In Collin’s piece, he puts together many various ideas one can forget as their life moves incredibly fast. Likewise, in White’s “Once More to the Lake,” the narrator struggles to understand how quickly time really passed and how his son is so similaralike to him. Both of these pieces of writing use X syntax and X diction to develop the common theme of annihilated time.

Macbeth’s downfall is began with his inability understand how time can control every aspect in your life. Time controls every aspect of life for humans. Time determines when we wake up to go to school to how long you are able to live. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth the protagonist Macbeth deals with the constraints of time and how time persuade him into making critical decisions. During his life William Shakespeare wrote sonnet 73 a well acclaimed sonnet, dealing with death, and how time affects everyone. About the constraints of time article called “What’s Your Time Perspective?” written by Jane Collingwood discusses how time can impact decisions we make constantly and how we feel about things in our daily lives. Peter Dizikes’ article “Does Time Pass?” talks about the different ways people can perceive time and how you relate to it in your life. Dizikes is a staff writer for the well renowned MIT news and reports mainly on science, technology, and intellectual life. The relationship of humans to time is humans rely on time to plan their lives around and constantly make choices based on time.

Cognitive aging is the term to describe changes in cognition with age. While Salthouse (2004) found that with cognitive aging comes cognitive decline regardless of the individual, Hayden and partners (2011) found that most (65%) elderly persons showed slow decline that does not substantially affect abilities, 27% experienced moderate decline, and only 8% showed substantial cognitive decline. These new findings show that in fact there may be individual variability when it comes to cognitive aging. One factor shown to affect cognitive aging is race (Glymour and Manly, 2008). Thus, in this paper we will review and analyze findings pertaining to cognitive aging as related by race to better understand this relationship and will also discuss suggestions for future research.

A person’s life can be summed up within a sentence, their childhood just a word. Time has the interesting ability of warping. At the same time, it has the ability to take away sentiment from any event.

In 1984, when Winston is writing in his journal he seems to be frantically spilling out all his thoughts and ideas. This causes the illusion that time is going by faster. The shift in narrative pace is seen in this sentence,“His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops: April 4th 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean…”(1984, p 11) The narrative shifts from third person to first person when he writes in his journal. When he is first writing in the journal it’s almost as if he has so many thoughts he can’t write them all down in the amount of time; he writes snippets of what his mind is thinking. The narrative pace also appears to go faster when he is writing in his journal or when he is committing crimes against the party because he is enjoying it and things seem to go by faster. When Winston is working with tedious things time goes extremely slow because it is unfulfilling and draining to participate in conversations with Parson. Time in the cell seems to go on for eternity, but he is not sure how much time has passed. The narrative pace in Slaughterhouse five goes slower in order to create a miserable setting in the novel. “He had never had an old gang, old sweethearts and pals, but he missed one anyway,

Time, from one person’s experience to another, from day to day, from emotion to emotion, varies more than the individuals who experience it. Yet time still can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the integral role of time in humanity.

Time is viewed in many different ways. Some would say that time seems to fly by too fast; others would say that time drags on. Everybody has a different perspective on what time feels like and just as it is to be expected, time affects people in many different ways. Certain people are affected by events everyday in life. Somebody might have experienced a loss in the family.

Time, as viewed in this framework, is not only defined as the time on a clock, but the way culture perceives time. Time can be viewed by the calendar; furthermore, some cultures use different calendars or have varying number of days in their week. Some cultures also see clock time as less strict. There are certain cultures where it is normal to be late and others where the time decided is the time one is expected to be there.

Nowadays, as modern societies provide an almost fixed time-table for humans to operate in various fields, we have far less freedom regarding our natural and momentary impulses than in the past. In other words, "we are increasingly detaching ourselves from organic and functional periodicity which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by mechanical periodicity which is dictated by the schedule, the calender, and the clock"(Jackson, 1994). The influence of this modern style of living on our sense of time can be seen on our relationship to every object we interact including buildings and architectural works.

Theme: Time can be the perception of each person at each different event in their life

It feels just like yesterday I was getting on a school bus for the first time to head off to kindergarten. The sun was warm to the senses as mildew covered the grass. Excitement is the only feeling I can recall as I felt on top of the world leaving my house to learn and be with friends. Now I am twenty-three and wondering where all the time has gone. My back aches from not stretching. My knees crack walking up and down the stairs. Where has the time gone, and why don’t I feel like a kid anymore?

We plan our day around different times of the day. Time tells us when to eat, when to sleep, and how long to do things for. If time were based on these simple terms, then this mysterious enigma would not be in debate. There are the issues of space and time; what is the relationship

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

Previous research by Malotki (1983) indicated that this finding was never approved as reliable data. This dilemma will be analyzed later on in reference to a contemporary study consisting of English and Mandarin native speakers and their ensuing concepts of time.