On the other hand, idle hours and days, while seeming to take forever as they go, will shrink in retrospect. This may explain why landmark events like New Year's seem to come around faster each year, says Wearden. It has long been known this can happen in women, but only recently has the mechanism become clear, says Ronald Melzack of McGill University. Apparently, there is a direct connection from the vagina and cervix to the brain via the vagus nerve, which runs outside the spinal cord. These have been noted arising from touch stimulation of a hypersensitive area that develops just above the level of the injury, for example, on the chest or shoulder, that can become a pleasure-producing locus, says Rutgers psychologist Barry Komisaruk.
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The correlation became apparent in studies of grave markers, where the bigger and more prestigious the headstone, the longer the span of years noted. This status bonus amounts to 2-4 years among humans, but is evident even among nonhuman primates occupying various levels of the pecking order. Subscribe to Cincinnati's Entertainment Newsletter . The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.