It seemed that the pitched ball would take forever to reach me. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. This is good. You can prepare your body to make the catch and then the throw with higher success. Use of drugs.
Old folks experience a perception that time is passing rather quickly.
One can even measure this. When young people are asked to guage the passage of 3 minutes, a fairly accurate 3 minute is assessed. The difference is even more striking when the participants are required to assess the time interval while they are performaing a task. The summary is below. The values in the table show how the average group performed.