alt Hacker NewsI can, sadly, relate to this. Is there a name for this phenomenon or is it simply a trick of the mind, a calcification of temporal perception that gradually boils the frog until one day you realize that referencing Van Halen or Max Headroom results in blank stares?
The brain is very good at compressing information, so if your days are fairly similar to each other they'll all blur together. And I don't mean the things you think about, but the places you go to. Real places, I might add.
If you rarely discover real places you've never been to, the memory will just be compressed and it seems like last year that you moved from your last place, when it was actually forty years ago.
Now, this can be alleviated by instead of visiting new places learning new things, but those things have to be actually new to your brain and not just more of something you are already familiar with. Otherwise it gets compressed all the same.