I could get it to stop sometimes, not everytime, but it was fairly interesting until my eyes started hurting.

I swear I got it to tick back a little. Freaked me out

but why does it only happen when you are NOT looking at the second hand?
IMO just an illusion. i would also only count that someone could stop time if they could actually do it for a longer period of time like 15-30 seconds.

also if you COULD stop time. the instructions wouldnt be
"look away from the clock and you can STOP TIME INSTANTLY!!!"

It doesnt actually stop, its just your eyes dont perceive the tiny flickering movements. It looks good, but the hand still moves, your eyes just register the bigger movemnets so it looks slower. Compare it with a stopwatch if you want, the same amount of time will pass

The fan effect is known as the stroboscopic effect.

The fact is that human beings have a frame rate of about 30 cycles per second, just like movies. We constantly blink in and out of awareness.

That is not stopping time when you blink looking at a fan. It is synchronizing your frame rate with the relative position of a fan blade, not necessarily the same fan blade even, just the blade that is nearest the position you are focusing on. They used to put a sticker with spoke on it on the back of floppy disc drives, you put the drive under a fluorescent lamp with a 60 cycle flicker and you can adjust the speed of rotation accurately by synchronizing it to look like the spokes are standing still.

I promise you the drive was still spinning, time had not stood still, neither had the drive. You might even have to speed it up to make it look like it was still.



[edit on 22-8-2008 by Cyberbian]

Originally posted by Cyberbian


I promise you the drive was still spinning, time had not stood still, neither had the drive. You might even have to speed it up to make it look like it was still.



[edit on 22-8-2008 by Cyberbian]

Exactly. thats the same effect that makes car wheels look like they are going backwards when they gain speed.
because you see the frames get nearer and nearer the same position and when you do it stands still.
if you dont care about the facts and ACTUALLY beleive you stopped time, turn the tv on and see if when you do it the tv and peoples voices are stuttering. and of course they wont.....

>.> i haven't stopped time but i have slowed it down in moments of extreme stress <.< i have learned how to do it by myself by raising my heart rate and fooling my mind into thinking im in danger does that count?

[edit on 22-8-2008 by KingIchigo]

I never said time actually stopped I just said it appears that way.

I'm guessing that the majority of you didn't read the follow-up thread.

It explains it in there.

Originally posted by Soulstone
I never said time actually stopped I just said it appears that way.

Not to be argumentative (just precise), but yes, you did.

If you do what they ask on the site you can actually see time stop.

Remember?
(And that's not counting the very title of the thread! )

ive never stoppd time but ive slowed it down considerably...

just try boiling water to cook speggetti when your hungry ill garentee you it will take ages

In my personal understanding:
Time is simply a truncated perception of our Genetic mind. From the moment we are old enough to learn we are taught the particular reality of the current Society that we live in of the rules and regulations of how, what, when to do in an orchestrated linear day.
In reality time is not about the increments of boxed moments of seconds, minutes, days, months, years etc.
All the time that there ever was and ever will be is all right now.

Try living with an Indigenous tribal Community for 6 months or more and come back and tell us here at ATS what your perception of time felt like?