Why does it always feel like the holidays go by so quickly?

Psychologist Hammond pointed out: Most people will feel that time passes faster after taking a long vacation or trying new things. Because all the experiences during this period will be converted into a large number of memories, more than in daily life, it will give people the illusion that time flies very fast. On the contrary, when you go to work or go to school, you will feel that time passes very slowly. Hammond calls this phenomenon the “vacation myth.”

She pointed out that when people are on vacation, they have at least six to nine experiences worth remembering in a day, and the number of memories generated can only be achieved in two weeks of daily life.

In daily work and study, if the form is mechanized and the content is repetitive, at the end of the day, the brain will receive less stimulation and will easily be in a state of "swimming". The final feeling it brings us is that "every day seems like a year" and " Why haven’t you finished class/get off work yet?"...

And during the holidays, the brain suddenly adds a lot of new content during the day, and the storage space of the memory is quickly filled with various messages.

This feeling has a ripple effect. You might change your original plans and be less inclined to schedule extra activities because it feels like you’re too short on time, or you might end up spending a lot of money on a nice meal to make the most of the short time you thought you had.