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- opticsnake, on 01/25/2008, -6/+85While I believe that you can teach yourself to occupy your brain in such a way as to make time feel as if it's going by quicker or slower, I don't really feel as though it applies to sports. In sports, the best way to get a handle on the game and make it feel as though time is moving slower is through practice. Ask any kid playing in his first football game just how crazy everything seemed to be as it was going on around him. Then ask that same kid playing in his senior year of college. As you better understand the game and can more accurately predict what is going to happen next, things seem to slow down and move in a predictable pattern that allow you to be in the right place at the right time. The same thing happens in squash or raquetball. As you play more and more and get a better feel for how the ball reacts to different areas of the court and the walls, it doesn't feel like such a harried and frantic pace. You are now in "the zone" and the game just seems to slow down.
- sockpuppets, on 01/25/2008, -4/+63I've actually experienced this, although I was calling it "time dilation" because I didn't know what else to call it. While I cannot comment on the ability to create this effect "at will" it is a very real experience. Mine occurred when I was shot at- my friend was killed and my life was next. Time came to such a great halt that I was able to see and remember things that otherwise take less than a second to occur- very similar to matrix-like effects. The bullet in midair, the blood in comic-book like projections.
I've since come to theorize (based on my experience alone) that human beings run at a certain clock rate, ostensibly partially chemically regulated. In an experience like this my brain was programmed to overclock itself to attempt survival. This accounted for more "cycles per second" and thus time felt incredibly slower.
Definitely a life altering experience. - Error601, on 01/25/2008, -0/+51I saw some show where they did a Mythbusters style experiment on that. Specifically if you could think faster when put in an intense situation. They had a display that flashed numbers too fast for anyone to see. Then a guy bungie jumped while looking at the display and was able to name some of the numbers. So, if it's possible in that situation it could easily be possible to train your mind to do it without the outside stimulation.
- inactive, on 01/25/2008, -4/+45"He uses his powers to make him a better squash player.."
I'd use my powers to look up skirts... - scootscr15, on 01/25/2008, -1/+27Once this baby hits 88 mph...
- eridius, on 01/25/2008, -0/+25How does he know how they look to everyone else?
- evilregis, on 01/25/2008, -0/+24That's another special power.
- KaiUno, on 01/25/2008, -0/+24Probably because you were used to playing tennis instead of badminton.
- known, on 01/25/2008, -0/+24When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.-Albert Einstein
- MrColdheart, on 01/25/2008, -1/+21the article talks about stretching time in your head.. which is just a matter of perception.
What law of time is that again? - GangsterCompute, on 01/25/2008, -3/+22Oh maaaaan, I was hoping for magic, but instead it's just more of this science crap.
- Rikushix, on 01/25/2008, -0/+15You can't call shenanigans on this, Kevin Rose submitted it.
- MacEnvy, on 01/25/2008, -0/+15That was on The Science Channel in a miniseries called "Time" with Michio Kaku. It's replaying this week actually on DirecTV 284. Set your Tivo.
Michio Kaku rocks my world. - SergioValente, on 01/25/2008, -5/+20I've done this for years, all through school. It always begins at 2:50pm and ends at 3:00pm when the bell rings. Magic :)
- inactive, on 01/25/2008, -2/+16,
- HexeL, on 01/25/2008, -0/+14Whenever I find myself performing an unpleasant task, I give it greater urgency, as though it needs to be completed in the alotted time or I die. This makes time see as though it's going by much faster than if I were looking at the clock in despair.
When I'm having fun, I do the opposite. I imagine myself needing the clock to move faster. It really slows things down. - ColdCut, on 01/25/2008, -2/+16That's a special ability he has separate from the aforementioned ability.
- Rustymetal, on 01/25/2008, -0/+12Once you realize there is no spoon you can use your mind to do anything.
- NinjaPirateDude, on 01/25/2008, -0/+11if this happened to me, i would be too amazed and enlightened to care about anything and the ball would hit me in the face.
- D4CH, on 01/25/2008, -0/+10I havent trained my brain or something, but once when I was playing badminton with a friend from school, it felt like time was moving really slow. I was pumped up, sweathing much more than normally and my breething was really controlled. When the match was done, I sat down, shocked over what I just experienced. So yes, I believe that you can do it.
- HenvY, on 01/25/2008, -1/+10That's his abi...nah, he can't do it.
- maheshee11, on 01/25/2008, -0/+9The article from the Nature Reviews Neuroscience:
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v6/n10/abs/nrn17 ...
It talks of the "interval timing", the "system through which we consciously perceive the passage of time". - cnot3, on 01/25/2008, -2/+11They forced people to watch Michael Bay's Armageddon for 9 minutes straight?! Isn't that classified as torture by the Geneva Convention?
- FaithclubDotNet, on 01/25/2008, -1/+10Yatta! Hellooooo New York.
- Orkahm52, on 01/25/2008, -2/+11That's his other ability.
- brian4572, on 01/25/2008, -2/+10That's another thing he has the ability to do.
- spyd3rweb, on 01/25/2008, -1/+9Take a few bong hits before your squash game.
- neuromachine, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Why is this such a big deal?
- spyd3rweb, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Goalies really are a weird bunch...
- Vlatro, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7I too have noticed this effect on many occasions, but only for 3-5 seconds at a time. Initially, I attributed it to the concussion I received seconds before. Another time I was repelling down a cliff face and the freefall after kicking off took noticeably longer than it should have. My physical reflexes weren't any faster, but I perceived everything to be moving at about half the normal speed.
I've done some research on it (via the internet I must admit, so not necessarily credible). What I found to be the general consensus about this is not that your are experiencing more, but that your are remembering more of the same experience after the fact. When your brain "records" your senses to memory, about 8 seconds after the actual experience, it usually records a fixed amount of information per perceived second. When something happens that your brain deems worthy of remembering in more detail, it has to span the perceived time to fit it all in. That is why many of the occurances seem to happen immediately before a traumatic experience, like a car accident for instance. Your brain wants to remember that in great detail so that the memory will stay with you longer and hopefully prevent a similar circumstance in the future. So you don't actually see in "slow motion" as the event occurs, but you will remember it happening in slow motion immediately afterwards. An effect similar to DejaVu. Several tests has been devised to trigger the effect. One interesting finding was that if this "Slow Motion" effect was triggered often, the brain acclimates to the difference of perceived time and new memories recorded in that way now seem to be at normal speed, and for a short time, normal memories become very fast and fragmented without much detail. - Netrilix, on 01/25/2008, -2/+9That's a skill he learned from a different master, at a different point in time.
- HenvY, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Wow, what happened to get you in that situation?
- olliholliday, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7same thing as when you're watching an accident unfold imo... ***** just appears to slow down a lot
- evilregis, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7I wish I do this when playing Guitar Hero on expert instead of faking that I can do it in practice mode.
- iXneonXi, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7^Favorite hypothesis thus far.
- BarleyWind, on 01/25/2008, -1/+8Who cares who submits the article it's content that matters, only stupid groupies think otherwise.
- Necoras, on 01/25/2008, -0/+7Yes, that was on the science channel last night. I was just thinking of it myself :). They actually dropped him into a net from 12 stories, but the effect is the same. The adrenaline rush to the brain allows it to slow the perception of time in near death (falling 12 stories) situations. I had something similar happen when I rolled my car last year. It only took about 5 seconds to happen, but I would have sworn we were rolling for a minute or two. It would make sense that with discipline the brain would be able to do this in other situations. If the brain is designed to speed up to protect itself, why not when hunting? Sports would then be the nearest analog to that today.
- oo7b0nds, on 01/25/2008, -1/+8Thats no longer funny, and is getting to be annoying.
- CanTheSpam, on 01/25/2008, -0/+6So. . . how can I get better scores at minesweeper?
- Inverno, on 01/25/2008, -0/+6Really bad movies can stretch time too. Go watch Waterworld again, you'll swear ~two hours turns into four.
- Karmavs, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5or, perhaps, you remember important events which are held most strongly in your memory as taking longer periods of time due to you recalling a higher density of information than normal… Just because you remember eerything sowing down doesn't mean you ever actually experienced it.
- julc, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5This is really interesting. I suspected a lot of new-agey or bs self-help but this is all actually scientifically grounded.
I love this part: The explanation, says Wearden, is that..."But looking back at it, the period was quicker because it didn't contain any events. The Armageddon period went quickly when you were in it but retrospectively you use the amount of things you remember as a judgement of time and so it seemed long. It's a kind of paradox."
That explains why I freak out often saying "It is (date) already?? Where the hell did the last (time) go??" = I didn't do very much memorable crap for a whole day/month/year. Sigh. - sockpuppets, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5Wrong place at the wrong time, an escaped prisoner carjacked us.
- captinherb, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5Kevin has had articles not hit the front page. This one for example
http://digg.com/other_sports/Yo_Yo_Champion_Takaya ...
He's had others, that were duped, that didn't make it. - h4mx0r, on 01/25/2008, -0/+5So... the real Bullet Time?
- jjmckay, on 01/25/2008, -1/+6Thanks you Arkavus. You are right. And you are mistaken. It's both. Yes, to drive to work, cook dinner, read a book, etc, we use time. Of course.
But I ask you this. Have you ever experienced time directly? Isn't it all just 'now'? Let me use a quote:
"The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future, and so as the vitality and infinite creative potential of being, which is inseparable from the Now, becomes covered up by time, your true nature becomes obscured by the mind. - Eckhart Tolle"
So he is talking more about the mental aspects of it, not the reality aspects, in a sense. He is talking about the perciever, us, and how it warps our perception of reality as thinking of our life in terms of time. Time, a product of our thinking mind, covers up reality because the world of time acts like prison walls in the head. Our minds evolved to do this for good reasons. It's not a problem or bad. The mind creates time because it is a tool to manipulate reality for survival purposes.
Most people live for the future, and often the present moment is seen as an obstacle for what they want in the future. For example - "I'm going to college right now so I can get a good job." This reduces reality as a means to an end in the future. In that thought, we enter the world of time. If we become identified with this thought with a sense of self, that is ego. We identify with a thought and that thought says we are incomplete. This is a deeply entrenched mental pattern in the human psyche, but it doesn't have to dominate our lives. We can still enter the world of time when needed and that's fine.
Does a clock measure time? Yes, and no. More precisely, it is a measure of physics. The physics happen now. The clock has no idea of time. It is just doing what it does now.
I'll leave you with some quotes and maybe that will help to explain.
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You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. - Eckhart Tolle
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Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future. You don't want the present. You don't want what you've got and you want what you haven't got. - Eckhart Tolle
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much. - Eckhart Tolle
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A great deal of what people say, think or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having a focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either. - Eckhart Tolle
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Is you goal taking up so much of your attention that you reduce the present moment to a means to an end? Is it taking the joy out of your doing? Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough, the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permenent disastisfaction and non-fulfillment, don't you agree? - Eckhart Tolle
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The 'me' that is an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted, is a product of the thinking mind, the ego. - Eckart Tolle - merper, on 01/25/2008, -0/+3I think you're proving the point of the article. As you learn more about the game, events that seemed unexpected or like a sudden reversal become blase, and register less in your mind, more like the waiting room example in the article. You end up thinking more time has gone past than actually has.
- slapded, on 01/25/2008, -0/+4if the frosting is real then is my fat ass?
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