Warum das Leben schneller vergeht, wenn man älter wird

"Warum das Leben schneller vergeht, wenn man älter wird" is the German edition of Douwe Draaisma's "Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older", a work of popular science on the workings of human memory. Draaisma, a professor of the history of psychology at the University of Groningen, uses real cases and historical accounts of memory research to explore why our sense of time's passage changes across a lifespan.

The book examines phenomena such as why déjà vu occurs, why autobiographical memory tends to hold on to humiliations and hurt more stubbornly than ordinary events, why people in mortal danger often report their life passing before their eyes, and why the proportionally shrinking novelty of each passing year as we age may explain why time seems to speed up. Draaisma writes for a general audience, translating memory science into accessible narrative case studies rather than technical exposition.

Draaisma won the Heyman Prize in 1999 for his contributions to memory research and is known for making cognitive science readable for a non-specialist audience.