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English, Phrase (Philosophical/Medical) Psycological Or Cognitive Pediment created by subconscious bias memory reinforcement and our inability to perceptually grasp the nature of time. A point in life at which you are no longer sure if it is more frightening looking at how far you've come, or imagining ahead to how much farther you may yet have to go. In life you may feel a deep sense of nostalgia for the past for many reasons, one of which may be caused by our brains interplay of; Our subjective "sense of time", the process by which we fabricate memories to order time, and the nature of time relative to ones own personal experiences. Overly disproportionate cognitive biases, becoming so tenuous it balances out, and the fear of an uncertain future vs. reinforcement of positive past memories cancel one another, causing longing for the "good ole days" when in reality they were likely neither as "good" nor as fond as one remembers.
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