Perception on the Passage of Time

[The Silver Surfer]

I was born in 1972. I started high school in 1984. The 1960's to me then seemed like eons ago.

Now I'm a big fan of music from around '65-'70 in particular, but when I think now at 43 years of age that as I started high school that music was only 15-20 years beforehand.

If I think about what was happening 15 years ago right now in 2016, taking away a few a few gadgets, the world, I feel, was as much as it is today. Yet do people born around 2000/2001 see footage of Oasis in their prime and feel like the same as I do when I see footage of The Kinks or the early Pink Floyd at the UFO club? Like you are "removed" from that time period?

The periods of time in the past are the same yet I can't believe some one of 15 today would feel that 2000 was "eons ago".

The same again, if you are around 58-63years of age, 1965-70 must have felt like 2000 feels to me as it did to you in 1985, exactly the same essentially.

I find it difficult to picture Ray Davies or Syd Barrett walking down a street that looks exactly as it would have done in 1967, 1984, 2000 or 2016.

Its just a concept I find really difficult to resolve!

 

[dronefromsector7G]

My head just exploded

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

No gniog si kcuf eht tahw?

 

[doctor whites]

Oh demon alcohol,sad memories I can't recall.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I was born in 1972. I started high school in 1984. The 1960's to me then seemed like eons ago.

Now I'm a big fan of music from around '65-'70 in particular, but when I think now at 43 years of age that as I started high school that music was only 15-20 years beforehand.

If I think about what was happening 15 years ago right now in 2016, taking away a few a few gadgets, the world, I feel, was as much as it is today. Yet do people born around 2000/2001 see footage of Oasis in their prime and feel like the same as I do when I see footage of The Kinks or the early Pink Floyd at the UFO club? Like you are "removed" from that time period?

The periods of time in the past are the same yet I can't believe some one of 15 today would feel that 2000 was "eons ago".

The same again, if you are around 58-63years of age, 1965-70 must have felt like 2000 feels to me as it did to you in 1985, exactly the same essentially.

I find it difficult to picture Ray Davies or Syd Barrett walking down a street that looks exactly as it would have done in 1967, 1984, 2000 or 2016.

Its just a concept I find really difficult to resolve!

Interesting post. I find that the music that I like is as immediate and relevant to me today as it was when I first discovered it.So for example, listening to Led Zeppelin does not immediately take me back to the 70's. I enjoy the music for what it is in the here and now. Thats totally different to my memories of sport, art, cinema, world events, politics. The further back in time I go, the detail gets less and less. So if I go back to the 70's for events that happened other than the odd memory its pretty hazy and indistinct and does seem an eon ago whilst my favourite music from that era doesn't. Maybe I drank too much as a youngster.

 

[talkativesprout]

I was born in 1970, by the time the late 80's had arrived i had found acid, booze and XTC. 80's 90's and 00's to me now seems to have gone by at the speed of light and memories from 20 something yr are only distiguished if any music was involved. I know i had a fucking belter, but i am fucked if i know what a "Belter" now constituted

 

[The Silver Surfer]

When I think back even punk in 1984 seemed like decades ago and it was in fact less than 10 years previous 76-79.

What's 5-8 years ago now? The start of the Sheikh Mansour revolution, and that seems like yesterday!

 

[Elbow beards]

I was born in 1972. I started high school in 1984. The 1960's to me then seemed like eons ago.

Now I'm a big fan of music from around '65-'70 in particular, but when I think now at 43 years of age that as I started high school that music was only 15-20 years beforehand.

If I think about what was happening 15 years ago right now in 2016, taking away a few a few gadgets, the world, I feel, was as much as it is today. Yet do people born around 2000/2001 see footage of Oasis in their prime and feel like the same as I do when I see footage of The Kinks or the early Pink Floyd at the UFO club? Like you are "removed" from that time period?

The periods of time in the past are the same yet I can't believe some one of 15 today would feel that 2000 was "eons ago".

The same again, if you are around 58-63years of age, 1965-70 must have felt like 2000 feels to me as it did to you in 1985, exactly the same essentially.

I find it difficult to picture Ray Davies or Syd Barrett walking down a street that looks exactly as it would have done in 1967, 1984, 2000 or 2016.

Its just a concept I find really difficult to resolve!

Have had exactly the same thoughts, was at stone roses on Sunday and looking at the 20 years old rocking along, though that's the same as me going to watch a band that were big in 1963 when I was that age. Think it all depends on the music I suppose, some ages fast other is timeless

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Have had exactly the same thoughts, was at stone roses on Sunday and looking at the 20 years old rocking along, though that's the same as me going to watch a band that were big in 1963 when I was that age. Think it all depends on the music I suppose, some ages fast other is timeless

Good example. I see them now with grey hair and a gut and I think jesus I remember Spike Island when they were spindly young scrotes!
But for the kids its relative to me watching Jagger and co 20 years back.

 

[Elbow beards]

Good example. I see them now with grey hair and a gut and I think jesus I remember Spike Island when they were spindly young scrotes!
But for the kids its relative to me watching Jagger and co 20 years back.

Got me thinking this, here's my unscientific explanation, when your young you have no reference point about a passage of time, the older you get you have references, so you can conceive how long 20 years is. When I was 5 ww2 was ancient history, in reality it was on 30 years previous. Like us looking back at heysal, the shuttle disaster or chernobyl

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Got me thinking this, here's my unscientific explanation, when your young you have no reference point about a passage of time, the older you get you have references, so you can conceive how long 20 years is. When I was 5 ww2 was ancient history, in reality it was on 30 years previous. Like us looking back at heysal, the shuttle disaster or chernobyl

Good reasoning pal, and I suppose it makes it seem all the more distanced when a lot of footage pre 70's is in black and white weather you are 20 or 40.
Its so difficult to imagine looking at a random person walking down the street now, that thats how Jagger, Lennon, Davies looked in the 60's - they were in colour!!

Watching Gallagher give the finger in 2000 looks no different than him doing it yesterday. Not to me anyway.

 

[Elbow beards]

Good reasoning pal, and I suppose it makes it seem all the more distanced when a lot of footage pre 70's is in black and white weather you are 20 or 40.
Its so difficult to imagine looking at a random person walking down the street now, that thats how Jagger, Lennon, Davies looked in the 60's - they were in colour!!

Watching Gallagher give the finger in 2000 looks no different than him doing it yesterday. Not to me anyway.

Your right about the black and white thing, can you imagine if ww2 was filmed in 4k on digital so would never decay over time, would be like watching something from yesterday. That's what kids now will be able to do when they get to our age.