What is it with time lapse videos?

What is it with time-lapse videos being so damn soothing to view? Is it the rapid changes throughout a day compressed into a few shorts seconds? Is it the background music? Or, is the soothingness of time-lapse videos due to the fact that our bodies understand the world, time, and everything in between moves so fast that once in awhile we just need a break? Follow the image above to a compilation video.
