Perception of time

**Mafoo** · 08-22-2010, 04:53 PM

When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp | Popular Science

i read this in popsci the other day, its pretty damn interesting.

**mothernature** · 08-23-2010, 04:10 AM

This is very cool.

I was hit in the side in my truck years ago. As I was donuting down the road, I could see the rear end of the truck, like it was rubber and bent or something. All in slow motion.

All I could think of was, how strange.

When my ex was in Vietnam, he said that he was hiding behind a bush and was being fired upon. He says he went into slow motion and was actually able to see the bullets coming and actually dodge them.

Kinda puts a new slant on, "It's gotta be real, I saw it with my own eyes!"

farmergiles · 08-23-2010, 05:07 AM

Interesting Mafoo.

I've noticed when crashing motorcycles that time slows almost to a stop while you're flying through the air then it speeds up really fast when you hit the ground.

Dandaweedman · 08-23-2010, 05:22 AM

I've noticed that very same thing FG

adventure · 08-23-2010, 06:54 AM

I was really hoping they were going to be able to read the numbers damn.. that would have been interesting

**Jimmycube** · 08-23-2010, 07:22 AM

it would have been even better if the scientist was like " man i remember tripping balls on acid as a teen and time was all fucked up so...." lol

**SageTree** · 08-23-2010, 07:56 AM

^We'll only ever hold that in essence I think

Jenna_Grows · 08-23-2010, 09:30 AM

Interesting.. I felt like I was floating when I was flying too farmer

The art of jumping timelines by Tom Kenyan is a good read.

A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon

**Mafoo** · 08-23-2010, 10:03 AM

i found it really interesting that our brain is actually "speeding up" time when we see things that are familiar to us. maybe thats why it feels like time goes by faster as you get older?

also i was thinking about when you're a kid how being put on time out for even 10 minutes can be an excruciatingly long time.

to me it just goes to show that psychedelics "trick" the brain into thinking at a higher rate and that it causes all kinds of wonky perception.

hijabihippie · 08-23-2010, 10:09 AM

I've noticed a similar effect after I've had a seizure.

Über King · 08-24-2010, 07:49 AM

true story, when i crashed my car last year, the last thought i remember having before i hit the lamp post was 'gonna make a post on yahooka about this'.

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Mafoo nice daze Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: the anguish of anticipated transformation Posts: 5,973 Thanks: 3,775 Thanked 2,651 Times in 1,697 Posts	Perception of time When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp \| Popular Science i read this in popsci the other day, its pretty damn interesting. __________________ PLUR For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

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farmergiles Yahookan Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sick of the hatred and the lies Posts: 7,793 Thanks: 2,280 Thanked 3,746 Times in 2,551 Posts	Interesting Mafoo. I've noticed when crashing motorcycles that time slows almost to a stop while you're flying through the air then it speeds up really fast when you hit the ground. __________________ Cultivate a stoic calmness *Fuck the Monkeys* Every Kind of Vice

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Dandaweedman Old School Join Date: May 2004 Location: At the Cabana Posts: 7,407 Thanks: 699 Thanked 760 Times in 613 Posts	I've noticed that very same thing FG __________________ Hanging in the Cabana

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mothernature ancientbongmaster Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,232 Thanks: 1,201 Thanked 809 Times in 487 Posts	This is very cool. I was hit in the side in my truck years ago. As I was donuting down the road, I could see the rear end of the truck, like it was rubber and bent or something. All in slow motion. All I could think of was, how strange. When my ex was in Vietnam, he said that he was hiding behind a bush and was being fired upon. He says he went into slow motion and was actually able to see the bullets coming and actually dodge them. Kinda puts a new slant on, "It's gotta be real, I saw it with my own eyes!"

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Jenna_Grows Old School Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 946 Thanks: 311 Thanked 315 Times in 191 Posts	Interesting.. I felt like I was floating when I was flying too farmer The art of jumping timelines by Tom Kenyan is a good read. A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon

08-23-2010, 10:03 AM	#9 (permalink)
Mafoo nice daze Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: the anguish of anticipated transformation Posts: 5,973 Thanks: 3,775 Thanked 2,651 Times in 1,697 Posts	i found it really interesting that our brain is actually "speeding up" time when we see things that are familiar to us. maybe thats why it feels like time goes by faster as you get older? also i was thinking about when you're a kid how being put on time out for even 10 minutes can be an excruciatingly long time. to me it just goes to show that psychedelics "trick" the brain into thinking at a higher rate and that it causes all kinds of wonky perception. __________________ PLUR For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

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hijabihippie YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,481 Thanks: 1,152 Thanked 655 Times in 515 Posts	I've noticed a similar effect after I've had a seizure.

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Über King yabooban Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The ÜK Posts: 2,539 Thanks: 42 Thanked 248 Times in 117 Posts	true story, when i crashed my car last year, the last thought i remember having before i hit the lamp post was 'gonna make a post on yahooka about this'. __________________ You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? http://vimeo.com/user4038385/videos

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