What's up with that???
https://www.livescience.com/2117-time-slow-emergencies.html
- experiment where they jumped backwards into a net.
- also used "perceptual chronometer" to see if they could see super fast things
https://theconversation.com/why-accidents-and-emergencies-seem-to-dramatically-slow-down-time-122569
- you're remembering the time slowdown after the fact?
- might have developed as a way to increase chances of survival in dangerous situations
- seems like its a pretty well documented phenomena. even if you don't think there is any benefit or actual effect, lots of people absolutely have this "experience".
- could just be another example of altered state of consciousness: flow state, hypnosis, psychadelics, deep meditation
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-time-slows-when-youre-in-danger/
- If you're absorbed in an activity, acheiving flow state, time seems to be moving more quickly
- anecdotal evidence of people getting "more time" to make decisions in a crisis in order to change what they were doing and enact a better outcome for themselves.
- noradrenaline (both a hormone and an neurotransmitter)
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- the passage of time at different states of life
- summertime for young children vs adults
- how time seems to speed up as you get older
- examples of "time dialation" in peaceful situations
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Current questions:
- Are there any other experiments that have been done?
- that video talked about everything being new for young people and thats why time goes slower for them?
- Is there any way to affect this in adults?
I think I might just read more about it and see if any other questions pop up in my brain. Not a lot of stimulation going on in the ol gray matter right now.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sense-time/201707/the-matrix-effect-when-time-slows-down
- this article references the article below and says the following (something about being able to train your brian to slow down time....what!?)
- https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00196/full
- you can artificially create the slow time effect (time dialation) (I sortof take issue with this term being used in this context) by putting images on a screen.
- for example: a dot on screen that appears to be moving towards you or away from you. Coming closer creates a fear response because it seems "threatening"? (thin)
- another instance was showing images of "scary" things. Large spiders, plane crashes, erotic pictures etc. (
- when showing these images participants reported feeling like the scary things were on screen longer. Which seems legit?
- https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/neuro.09.002.2010/full
- psychology today also referenced this article
- results were recorded using an fMRI brain scanner
- the region of the brain that was lit up was the part that concerns things that are happenening to us specifically
- virtual reality setup to test this theory could be interesting!
- the actual study with the people falling onto nets:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001295
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Oh I remember, that video talked about peoples perceptions of time that was super intersting. Like people from different cultures have different ways that they conceptualize time passing.
time speeds up and slows down for everyone. It's a normal part of everyday life. The circumstances of life can affect the rate at which the perception of time increases or decreases.
- having a good time? Time goes faster
- bored to tears? time moves at a crawl.
- need to pee? Time stands still ;P
So I think the question that I haven't really answered yet would be, why? Why does time seem to slow down when we are in trouble?
- I can guess that it would be useful in a survival situation, but they said that you're actual ability to see things doesn't really change much?
- I heard someone say that it's less about how much you can perceive and more that you're focus become incredibly narrow, so everything in that tiny field of vision get's macro recorded
- I would probably have a hard time verifying that though.
- What is this phenomenon even called?
- Doesn't seem like there is a name for it. That I can find anyway.
Fun aside:
people from different cultures have different perspectives on their own physical relation to time in space.
In the west we usually think front and back. The past behind us and the future in front.
take a guess as to what the other perspectives could be
Above and below
uphill and downhill
past and present follow the trajectory of the sun
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3384265/
It seems like everyone is pretty much in agreement that it's not happening in the moment, it's your perception of the event after the fact that makes it seem like time is slowing. Probably similarly to how it's only how you remember fun or boring events that makes them seem to go quickly or slowly? hmmm something about that doesn't track
- I'm still wondering though. Why? It seems like evolutionarily this would have been advantageous somehow if it actually worked, but if it doesn't, what's the point?
- Conjecture -> The feeling of time slowing down is an amplified version of the normal time contortion that the average smuck feels everyday. Boring days go slowly, busy days go quickly, dangerous days go .......wait no that would be the opposite.
- If you're bored things slow down and excited things speed up, so danger should be like extreme excitement so things should feel like they are going crazy fast. Instead they go very slow. Hmmmm. I want to look into it more but the sources are few and far between and not very varied in their goals or informational chaff
- finally found a quote worth investigating:
"amygdala, a part of the brain implicated in fear, is highly active and affects the way memories are made."
- Also, everyone keeps misquoting that study about people falling into a net. Go to the source already people! Geez!
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24894-amygdala
Sooooo the amygdala could shed some light on this. It's the part of the brain that deals with and processing things that you see and hear to make sure you're not running into things like rancors or demigorgons. and if you are that you run away post haste.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31376287/
This is just talking about measuring the amygdalas response to scary faces? I think? Facial expressions.