
Ep1 "Does time really slow down when you're in fear for your life?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
The Importance of New Memories
As you age, the memories that you lay down are much thinner and impoverished. In contrast, when you're in your childhood, everything is new. And so the richness of that gives you the impression of increased duration. We have to seek novelty because this is what lays down new memories in the brain.
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