I fell from a stepladder during house cleaning while I was pregnant. I had a spontaneous abortion because of it. I know for sure that I experienced time slowing down WHILE I was falling and NOT while remembering it. And also I felt like on clouds, I didn't feel hitting the ground.
For those researchers who ride motorcycles...
Look at Kneival's crash films in slow motion. Imagine what you would do, yet see or watch his body language. Fascinating stuff.
When the normal rhythm of living is disrupted by something that shocks us, whether it be a fearful event or something otherwise exciting, the various chemicals that are usually in balance, such as neurotransmitters within the brain and/or hormones released by the pituitary gland, for instance, respond to this shock. This seems to be an inbuilt mechanism; a sort of fight or flight adaptation that would be common to most animals. Under such circumstances, with the increase in excitatory neurotransmitters, one is shocked and perceptions seem to travel faster along the nerve pathways and within our brains, or perhaps the signals actually short-circuit their ordinary pathways, under the bath of newly released neurotransmitters, to give us an impression that time has somehow warped. This adaptation assists with getting out of potentially 'sticky' situations; assists us to survive. It is simply a case of short-circuit and/or neurotransmitter release that starts off the cascade for a short period of time.
Schizophrenia seems to differ in the sense that there appears to be a constant imbalance of neurotransmitters that excite pockets of neurons that then combine to give an error in perception. It seems to be a progressive malfunction.
So we see at 13 frames per second. How does that work with a 30 fps movie or the hertz rate of a lcd television? Those devices would seem to present images faster than we could receive them.
You are full of.....pseudo science One can not scientifically study this topic unless you properly record and investigate those who can see ahead. And there are those who can. So stop prevaricating.
There Could Be A Lot More Factors About This
Thu Oct 22 16:25:40 BST 2009 by tony geniston
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I think our mind's perception of time is also affected by metabolic rate. When one is bored time passes too slowly. When one is busy time seems too short.
Once in Amsterdam (where using cannabis is non-illegal), after having smoked a heavy dose of Libyan I noted a change of my perception of the surroundings. People around me slowed down (and I am not taking about the drug effects on them), even the sound of their speech shifted to very low frequencies. I assume the drug caused temporary (hopefully) schitzoprehnic attack. The "me" was clearly operating faster than my senses.
I found the phenomena very interesting as cannabis is supposed to slow the user down rather than speed one up. Do the amphetamines cause perception of surrounding people moving at high speed and to have Mickey Mouse voices?
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