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Originally posted by gecrazy
I wish I had the power to turn the sound off my girlfriend
Originally posted by wigit
Originally posted by disconnected8
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I too was rather confused when I logged on this morning and saw your post removed, don't remember you writing anything that could be deemed an extreme violation!
Why Time Slows Down In Near-Death...
This is a pretty cool article about how our mind percepts time and space in near death experiences can appear to slow down. Im sure most people have experienced this at one point or another, could we therefore trick our minds into thinking were about to die and slow time down and basically live our existence in a matrix way?edit on 8-2-2012 by disconnected8 because: (no reason given)edit on 8-2-2012 by disconnected8 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst
Originally posted by disconnected8
reply to post by wigit
I too was rather confused when I logged on this morning and saw your post removed, don't remember you writing anything that could be deemed an extreme violation!
Why Time Slows Down In Near-Death...
This is a pretty cool article about how our mind percepts time and space in near death experiences can appear to slow down. Im sure most people have experienced this at one point or another, could we therefore trick our minds into thinking were about to die and slow time down and basically live our existence in a matrix way?edit on 8-2-2012 by disconnected8 because: (no reason given)edit on 8-2-2012 by disconnected8 because: (no reason given)
I think the slow-down can be explained medically. You have a Sympathetic and Para-Sympathetic nervous system -- there is also a third "nervous control system" that can be activated. When a faith-healer gets a paralyzed person to walk -- it may be that the cripple is accessing the Para-Sympathetic which runs OUTSIDE the spinal column. It is a faster but less complicated network -- and likely a lot of people who have spinal damage, may still have access to their muscles through this alternate path.
However -- after any Excitement and without a constant pump of adrenaline -- the Para-Sympathetic nervous system switches off. The Faith Healer cure doesn't last.
>> I've experienced time slowdown twice in my life. Once was while sparring with my Karate instructor and the other was in a car crash. It seriously was like Bullet Time. I remember feeling a bit tingly, and having an uncontrollable urge to laugh. In the first instance I thought it was funny someone was trying to hit me, and I gave him five punches and then a half-hearted kick which sent the instructor across the room and into a wall. ON the 2nd instance, my brother had fallen asleep and when I startled him awake, he sent the car into a spin that careened us off the road. It was kind of annoying as it looked like we were slowly spinning -- it took about an entire minute for the car to go twice around, and I could do nothing but wait for it to slide off the road. No damages, however -- but the adrenaline kick would have helped if I were driving the car instead of my Narcoleptic brother (we discovered he had Narcoplepsy after that incident -- which went away as mysteriously as it came).
>> So it isn't just "before dying" -- it's can happen to a person when they get into their fight or flight mode -- though it obviously isn't the same for everyone. I've always become really rational and calm when the SHTF -- and other people freak out. Normally, I'm a bit of a goof.