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Old 09-05-2007, 08:06 PM
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A few months ago, I had the most amazing experience in my life. All of a sudden everything started slowing down. Imagine watching a slow motion movie. That's exactly what it was like, except it was real. Each episode would last a few minutes, and I had about 6 of them. The first one happened while I was on the highway All the cars started slowing down to a snail's pace, even though they were going about 130 miles per hour.

Athletes report experiencing the exact phenomena during an important sports game.

Does anyone know how this happens?

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A few months ago, I had the most amazing experience in my life. All of a sudden everything started slowing down.
That would be because there is an inverse relationship of the velocities of perceived time and information processing events in the brain...

That is, when mental activities slow down... time seems longer and vice versa...
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The more fun you have the faster times goes by for you, the more you suffer the more the clock doesn't move.
That has been studied for science explaining that endorphines and such alter our perception of time, so can happen with another hormones, I guess...

As a general rule, the slower time is for you the worse, and the fast is for you the best. Times go by quickly in this board...

Maybe in has something to do with E=mc2, or so... Time is supposed to be slower for the person that travels faster, and faster for the ones that move slower (The Twins Paradox).

maybe the more energy you release the slower the time for you. Like exercise keeps you young...

Energy=mass*(distance/time)squared
Energy=mass*distance/time*distance/time
Time=mass*distance/time*distance*energy
Time=mass*speed*energy
Time=your mass (fixed thing) * speed of light (fixed thing) * your energy (not fixed thing)
Time=a constant * your energy

I don't know if that makes sense but it's funny at least.
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A few months ago, I had the most amazing experience in my life. All of a sudden everything started slowing down. Imagine watching a slow motion movie. That's exactly what it was like, except it was real. Each episode would last a few minutes, and I had about 6 of them. The first one happened while I was on the highway All the cars started slowing down to a snail's pace, even though they were going about 130 miles per hour.

Athletes report experiencing the exact phenomena during an important sports game.

Does anyone know how this happens?
This same phenomenon can be replicated with hypnosis. It involves a state of disassociation from your usual cognitive patterns (the way your brain and mind interact with reality) and processing the patterns in a new way, if only temporarily. For example, you could have been watching something repetitive while you were driving. The repetition of that cognitive object (in otherwords, thought) caused you to disassociate, because your brain and mind try to be efficient, and not all of your cognitive resources need to be focussed on a monotonous activity. Thus, disassociation happens as a cognitive energy saving phenomenon.

The disassociated "you" then gets the interesting perception that it is watching itself do things, rather than actually doing them. Part of you is thinking, and part of you is on autopilot in a loop of cognitive objects. This is called trance. Trance alters the way you process cognitive patterns. Depending on what cognitive functions were enabled or disabled, the part of you that was "observing" could have been processing patterns more rapidly than usual, but perhaps less critically. This rapid processing of information could mean your mind was moving faster than normal, giving the perception of time around you moving slower.

Or it could be something completely different....
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A few months ago, I had the most amazing experience in my life. All of a sudden everything started slowing down. Imagine watching a slow motion movie. That's exactly what it was like, except it was real. Each episode would last a few minutes, and I had about 6 of them. The first one happened while I was on the highway All the cars started slowing down to a snail's pace, even though they were going about 130 miles per hour.

Athletes report experiencing the exact phenomena during an important sports game.

Does anyone know how this happens?
Have you seen Cashback? If not, it's a great film in which the lead develops the ability to freeze time after a relationship breakup which affected him intensely enough to leave him unable to sleep. For 4 weeks. It might sound like a corny plot, but the film focused more on beauty and art (the lead would freeze time and then paint women) and the appreciation of every moment.

You might also find this thread interesting

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When you enter the moment fully, time 'appears' to slow down. You're experiencing reality outside the box called 'time'.

Time is a control structure we add to our experience of the moment. Without time there's the experience of a lot of space.
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