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When we are kids, we are smaller
and don't remember things like when we are much bigger.
When we are 25 years old and are big so, for example
a zoo animal that once looked gigantic,
when we saw it at 6 years old and now, at 20 looks much smaller.
We realize it is smaller.
So the size of the house, the father's house, it's always something big,
then, when we go visit him some years later, we see it wasn't that big.
The bed wasn't so tall, we don't have to make specific movements to climb it,
we lower ourselves to sit on it, for example.
When we were small children we have to climb to get to bed
so this is obvious.
Now, in relation to the duration of time, I don't know,
the duration of time perceived by us
is a phenomenon that has little to do with real time measured by clocks.
Psychological time which is the first and the one we realize
has the duration that our brain wishes to give it,
and has no reason to be the same as psychological time.
For example, when we are having a pleasant moment, time always passes faster,
and the unpleasant moment always gives us the impression
after it happens that it lasted longer.
Now, when we were kids, later...
I don't know how we really perceive time because I'm not a child anymore, but
when we are adults, we remember that time perceived
when we were kids like it was much longer than it really was.
Maybe when we are kids it doesn't seem like it,
but after we become adults and remember
how it must have been on that childhood time, it always seems longer.