{"product_id":"time-perception-boris-kriger-9798255263042","title":"Time Perception: Why Life Speeds Up","description":"You are not imagining it. The years really are getting shorter.\u003cbr\u003eNot on any clock, not on any calendar - but inside the three pounds of tissue between your ears, something has changed. The summers that once stretched into lazy eternities now collapse into a long weekend. A decade vanishes like a coin in a magician's hand. And the unsettling sense that you are being robbed of time - that life is accelerating toward some finish line you never agreed to approach - is shared by nearly everyone who has lived long enough to notice it.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1999, Boris Kriger proposed a radical explanation for this universal experience. The problem, he argued, is not with time. The problem is with the machinery your brain uses to record it. As we age, the cellular powerhouses inside the hippocampus - the brain region responsible for encoding the experiences that make up our sense of lived time - begin to fail. Their energy output drops. Inhibitory neurotransmitters rise to compensate. And the result is a quiet, progressive impoverishment of the episodic record: fewer distinct memories per year, less experiential richness per decade, and the growing, haunting impression that life is accelerating beyond your control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeywords: \u003c\/b\u003etime perception, chronoperception, aging, hippocampus, episodic memory, neuroscience, consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boris Kriger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255263042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Boris Kriger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172590231807,"sku":"9798255263042","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-perception-boris-kriger-9798255263042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}