How the Brain stops Time
"One of the strangest side-effects of intense fear is time dilation, the apparent slowing-down of time. It's a common trope in movies and TV shows, like the memorable scene from The Matrix in which time slows down so dramatically that bullets fired at the hero seem to move at a walking pace. In real life, our perceptions aren't keyed up quite that dramatically, but survivors of life-and-death situations often report that things seem to take longer to happen, objects fall more slowly, and they're capable of complex thoughts in what would normally be the blink of an eye.
Now a research team from Israel reports that not only does time slow down, but that it slows down more for some than for others. Anxious people, they found, experience greater time dilation in response to the same threat stimuli."
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ReplyDeleteI would say that time is merely relevant to the memories we have associated to said moment. IE Time flies when we are having fun, due to the fact that we are only thinking of the fun we are having while we are engaged. When you are alone you are thinking of an array of thoughts which are all individually associated to the moment at hand, so to control time you have to control your thoughts and trick your perception of those thoughts as your having them this is done generally by setting up red flags in ones head to ideas like a breadcrumb trail. Idk I could ramble on forever but I just wanted to add my two cents on your quest for sense.
ReplyDeleteEthan Allen