I decided to diagram my memory in a scalometer, and I think the diagram helps explain the situation. From eight-years-old to nine-years-old is one stop on the scalometer dial, from "1" to "2". At the same time, I went from 37 to 38, barely one quarter stop from "14" to "15". The message is clear to me: time is experienced like the accumulating rings of a tree, in proportion to the amount of time you have already experienced and accumulated in your body, in its memory, habits and conventions. Recently I found out Glashow agrees with this explanation, though leading psychologists do not.

To complete the diagram, I put John Tyler Bonner's rendering of the changing proportions of the human body, from infant to mature adult.
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