It's one of life's great injustices: the older you get, the more time seems to fly. If you find yourself frequently wondering where the time's gone as you age, you aren't alone. It turns out, it's a real perceptual phenomenon that most people experience. Of course, time doesn't really speed up; clocks everywhere aren't ticking any faster than they were when you were a child. But the passage of time is also a perception, and there's evidence that the pace of time, as a perception, really does accelerate, reports Discover Magazine. The simplest explanation for why time seems to speed up is that our brains calculate the perception of time roughly based upon the percentage of time we've lived up