Anyone who has ever watched water come to boil knows intuitively that their "sense of time" is only a perception. Far from being a reliable measurement, it's more like a mental construct, constantly changing over time.

任何见过水烧开的人都直观地知道，他们的“时间感”只是一种感知。它远不是一个可靠的测量方法，更像是一个随着时间不断变化的心理构造。

This essentially means that the seconds, minutes, and hours we keep in our heads are inherently different to the ones we count on our clocks.

这本质上意味着我们头脑中的秒、分和小时本质上不同于我们依靠时钟计算的秒、分和小时。

"The time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another," writes Bejan.

“你感知的时间和别人感知的时间是不一样的，”Bejan写道。

"Why? Because the young mind receives more images during one day than the same mind in old age."

“为什么?因为年轻的大脑一天内接收到的图像比年老时多。”

Put simply, an older brain takes longer to process the present. Just look at any baby and you'll notice that their eyes dart about much faster than your own, taking in the scene at a rapid pace.

简单地说，老年人的大脑需要更长的时间来处理此时此刻。只要看看任何一个婴儿，你就会注意到他们的眼睛比你的快得多，快速地捕捉到场景。

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