You can slow down time

[Qacer]

I was watching a show called "Time" on Discovery Science. They had this interesting tidbit about human perception of time slowing down during life and death situations. I was able to capture the video: video link 1.

Also, after the experimental portion, they devoted a section on the guy that had a 30 second memory. This is the same video I found on YouTube: video link 2

It is quite interesting. If human perception of time can be slowed down, then technically that means, at that moment, that we are functioning faster compared to others. If we can take in additional details in our surrounding when our perception of time slows down, then normally, is it possible that we are taking in everything that we see and just storing away the details that we don't need?

 

[techs]

Wow. I feel like I just spent 30 minutes reading this thread.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Did they do more trials? I know they need to show their Cialis commercials, but a sample size of 2 is ridiculous.

Edited with theory: the wind rushing past him as he falls cools his body allowing his brain to overclock itself and thus render the world with more frames per second... and full anti-aliasing.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Did they do more trials? I know they need to show their Cialis commercials, but a sample size of 2 is ridiculous.

Edited with theory: the wind rushing past him as he falls cools his body allowing his brain to overclock itself and thus render the world with more frames per second... and full anti-aliasing.

:laugh:

I remember reading a study saying that people were put somewhere where falling could be simulated, I forgot what, and they were shown an LCD with the time displayed on it digitally in seconds. Then they looked at the same screen while not falling. Time didn't change.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I could manipulate time when I was in highschool during summer school. I would sit there and stare at the clock and somtimes it would move backwards...

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I could manipulate time when I was in highschool during summer school. I would sit there and stare at the clock and somtimes it would move backwards...

so you wanted to stay in summer school longer?

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I could manipulate time when I was in highschool during summer school. I would sit there and stare at the clock and somtimes it would move backwards...

so you wanted to stay in summer school longer?

I think he meant it made it seem longer then it was

 

[Anubis]

drugs do this for us allready

 

[Pugnax]

The faster your speed approaches 'c' the slower time passes. Of course, you'll get really fat too

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Pugnax
The faster your speed approaches 'c' the slower time passes. Of course, you'll get really fat too

lol

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
I could manipulate time when I was in highschool during summer school. I would sit there and stare at the clock and somtimes it would move backwards...

so you wanted to stay in summer school longer?

I think he meant it made it seem longer then it was

Correct.

Taking Spanish in summer school was torture.

 

[BoomerD]

People have known this for years...when you're doing something you don't want to do, time crawls by...when you're doing something you enjoy, time goes by at a rapid pace.

Once you have children, the pages on the calendar seem to flip much faster than they did when you were a kid, and when you get OLD like me, the years seem to fly.

 

[meltdown75]

I usually like to slow mine down after work on a Friday, or before a movie on a nice lazy weekend day

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

 

[FallenHero]

A big fat "DUHHHH" for that experiment.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Uh, k

 

[destrekor]

it's pretty easy to explain, and I have, for the most part, horrible time perception. Time normally feels very fast for me (it's an ADD thing), and doing anything requires a lot of preparation as to determining times to get ready and leave so I can be on time... well I rarely am on time, let's just say that. It sucks, I know what the problem is too... but I can't seem to get into the habit of preparing. I look at the clock, see how much time I have, fee like I have a few minutes to waste before I need to move.. and then that time has come and went way faster than it seemed.
When in a class that is excruciating, time goes real slow.
Our perception of time definitely varies with interest, because I think that perception is merely how much processing our brain is actually doing. For instance, near death experiences? I think our brain is working on such overload, that it is trying to cram and much information into the brain as possible, as much detail about the impending crisis as we can. It's the one instance I think everyone instantly has a photographic memory.. any experience that really had a terrifying impact on me, I can recall pretty much every detail. Then again, I do have a good photographic memory and can remember a lot of situations and events, or if I don't.. music is a trigger... if I listen to a song I haven't listened to in forever, I can typically visually remember the kinds of things I had been doing in the past while listening to that song (I typically listen to a single cd until I get bored of it, so I usually remember the times when I had listened, or at least one or two times will stand out in my mind.
hell, I can visually recall letting my dog out of the front door.. don't really know why, and i don't think I did then.. hell I was 3 iirc. Maybe 4. I dunno, I got a lot of memories that I can tell my parents I remember, and THEY don't remember at all, or may confuse the memory with another and say I was off in time. Nope, I know for a fact I am right about those early childhood days. I remember living them.
Of course, it could be like the Matrix and someone has programmed me to believe I remember living those memories, but nothing like it ever happened? That would be a trippy answer to photographic memory. :laugh:

uh, here I've gone and rambled on, and pushed off studying for a test I have in an hour and a half. Really should start that process.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Qacer

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

How do they measure a rat's perception of time?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I think it may be a false quote attributed to Einstein, but I read once that he said:

"A minute sitting on a hot stove will pass like an hour, and an hour sitting next to your true love will pass like a minute -- thats relativity!"

 

[dwcal]

Perception may slow down, but your brain doesn't really work faster. The explanation is that your mind is storing more memories more vividly when you're in fear, so it feels longer. Check out this experiment. They dropped human subjects freefall into a net and asked them to read numbers scrolling on a screen to see if the brain could process faster. They couldn't.

http://science.slashdot.org/ar...pl?sid=07/12/12/169208
http://www.livescience.com/php...deo_id=071211-FreeFall

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Qacer

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

How do they measure a rat's perception of time?

They have them fill out a questionnaire.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: Qacer

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

See BBC's LSD: The Beyond Within. If I recall, an early researcher describes experiencing "ages" with the passing of mere seconds.

 

[BudAshes]

Originally posted by: dwcal
Perception may slow down, but your brain doesn't really work faster. The explanation is that your mind is storing more memories more vividly when you're in fear, so it feels longer. Check out this experiment. They dropped human subjects freefall into a net and asked them to read numbers scrolling on a screen to see if the brain could process faster. They couldn't.

http://science.slashdot.org/ar...pl?sid=07/12/12/169208
http://www.livescience.com/php...deo_id=071211-FreeFall

yeah but thats like "weeeee i'm falling into a net" not like "oh god i'm heading for a net and it is going to kill me"

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Auric

Originally posted by: Qacer

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

See BBC's LSD: The Beyond Within. If I recall, an early researcher describes experiencing "ages" with the passing of mere seconds.

thats called Tripping LOL, and yes it happens, and its fing mindblowing

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Qacer

Originally posted by: Anubis
drugs do this for us allready

Hahah. It's funny that you mentioned this because the segment before the free fall trial had to do with lab rats getting fed marijuana and cocaine. The rat without the drugs had a normal perception of time. The rat with marijuana was really mellow and had a slower perception. The rat on coke seemed to have a faster perception

How do they measure a rat's perception of time?

The three rats were actually trained to press a button at exactly 12 seconds. When the rats press the button, food is released to them. The rat without any drugs correctly pressed the button at the exact time. The rat on marijuana pressed the button 18 seconds later. The rat on coke pressed it around 8 seconds.