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An interesting article nonetheless. The "failed" attempts at least suggest that the perceived slowdown is not simply a matter of your brain processing informat
by jcl 16y ago
An interesting article nonetheless. The "failed" attempts at least suggest that the perceived slowdown is not simply a matter of your brain processing information faster -- that it instead stores more superfluous information than normal.
So if we intentionally trigger "bullet time", it wouldn't allow us to perform superhuman feats, but it might give us superhuman recollection of details.
- Splines 16y agoI thought that was the explanation. Your brain has a normal data per unit time ratio, and in these stressful situation it ends up recording much more than normal. Since you're used to a certain data/time ratio, it feels like everything happened in slow-motion.
- raquo 16y agoIt also works on a larger time scale. When I was working 9-to-6, weeks passed like days. Now that I'm on my own, time passes much slower because there's so much different stuff you have to do and learn every day.
- jacquesm 16y agoSitting in a dentists chair makes minutes seem like hours, sitting on a couch chatting with an attractive member of the opposite sex makes hours seem like minutes. Mortgages make months shorter and years longer. Time is pretty weird, our perception of it changes all the time depending on the circumstances, it shouldn't be a surprise that extreme circumstances change our perception of time in an extreme way.
- cedsav 16y agoLike an evolutionary black box. All the details stored will help the brain make sense of the event and prevent it from occurring again.
- bitwize 16y agoDrat, so no shooting wings off flies like in Wanted? :) I had suspected for a while that it was memory-based rather than your brain actually "speeding up", based on an experience when I was mugged in NYC.