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Old 06-30-2004, 07:45 AM   #1
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What if everything is actually really fast but since are brains arent developed enough and we only use 10 to 12 percent of are brain we see things slower because are brain cant process all the information and movment . So naturally are brain adapted to this and slowed everything down so we can process it more easily.

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Old 06-30-2004, 03:15 PM   #2
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Actually, your brain IS capable of slowing down your perception of the passage of time, but it's not because we're dumb or have undeveloped brains -- quite the opposite.

Slowing down the perception of time requires your brain to work FASTER. Have you ever seen the show Time Trax (I think that's what it's called)? The main character Darien Lambert has this ability. It's similar to what the effects look like in the Matrix. Also Michael Smith, the main character in the book Stranger in a Strange Land, had this ability.

Basically, your brain speeds up and processes things faster, and the result of that is that your perception of time slows down. Say you're driving down the interstate. When you use this ability, it allows you to drive very very fast, swerving into holes in traffic that are barely there, and to drive perfectly while doing it. From the first-person perspective, your "perception" of time will be slowed down, because even though you squeeze into that small hole in traffic in say 0.1 seconds, your brain may be working 100 times faster, so it appears to you that it takes 10 seconds to squeeze into that hole. 10 seconds is plenty of time, so you're able to do it with ease. But from an outside perspective, it looks like you did it really fast, with almost perfect precision. And it also looks like you're a lunatic driver, but a near-perfect one. Because it appears to you that everyone is driving 6 mph instead of 60 mph, everything is much easier.

It's all mind over matter, which is why this is actually possible in real life, but you'd have to have an extremely disciplined mind to do it. And when you did it, your brain would actually be functioning orders of magnitude faster, in order to create the effect for you that everything is slowing down.
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Old 06-30-2004, 03:31 PM   #3
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Basically, your brain speeds up and processes things faster, and the result of that is that your perception of time slows down.

This occours naturally and without the need for superpowers. When in an alerted state, the brain automatically speeds up processes, your whole body jumps into gear. That's why people in car accidents feel like a split second crash took an eternity. Images are focused on harder in this alert state and stored more vividly.



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Old 07-29-2004, 10:54 AM   #4
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I just want to clarify that people definitely ( it is proven) use 100% of their brains. At any given instant performing any given task the brain is not necessarily using 100% of its capacity, but that's because it doesn't need to. When you do some task, such as walking, you only use the part of your brain that controls walking. It's a waste of energy to use more than is needed. Throughout the span of an entire day about all of your brain is used.
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Old 07-30-2004, 06:54 PM   #5
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Actually, the more acurate statement is that at any given moment, we're only using a maximum of 12% of our brains. In other words, we have our whole brain availiable, but we can't use our whole brain all at once. Instead certain sections of it are used at certain moments, for certain functions, and the sum of all sections being used doesn't exceed 12% of the total brain capacity.
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Old 07-30-2004, 08:26 PM   #6
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How about this one for you, How is it that when you approach light speed, time begins to slow down? How is it that time is something you can manipulate?
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Old 07-31-2004, 04:36 AM   #7
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Because time does not exist in the linear fashion we think it does... Time is a tool of human imagination used to compare one instance of reality (experience) to the next. Time can be manipulated (though not so dramatically as time travel) just by adjusting your perceptions of it. Have you ever noticed that if you ignore a clock, it seems to move faster, but when you watch it it moves very slowly? Think about it from a relative point of view: for a those moments ignoring time, did the entire world speed up and "travel" through time more quickly? If the passage of time increased for everything at the same time would anyone notice it? Can you really prove time isn't oscillating between slow and fast all the time, and we don't percieve it because we are in it. Similar to the fact that the Earth spins at several hundred miles per hour on its axis, but we don't even feel it.

Put in a more cliched way...

If a tree falls and no one hears it, did it ever happen? If time stops and no one feels it, did it ever happen?
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I've wondered before if time had just stopped for a million hours and i didnt notice.
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I've wondered before if time had just stopped for a million hours and i didnt notice.
You wouldn't notice. It's like a light switch, if it could "know" things, it wouldn't know it was turned off, it would always think it was on. It's the theory for time travel, like how seeds can live in "suspended animation" where they can "grow" life at any time when watered and given sunlight, but until then they are "off."
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Time DOES exist in a linear fashion, or else you couldn't be born, grow old, and die. Our delineation of time just happens to be a man-made concoction designed to allow us to perceive it more easily.

Before the Gregorian calendar, there was the Julian calendar. Before that there was a different one. It's reasonable to assume that at one point in history humans did not have a calendar, and it follows that at a point even further back in time humans did not have a delineation of time at all. They were concerned with where their next meal came from and where they would find shelter from the rain, not with notions of "seconds", "minutes", and "hours".

Did time not pass simply because humans had no concept of it and no language for it? If so then how did we progress into a time where we DID have a calendar and a delineation of time? How are we here, except for those who came before us? Our perception of time cannot be necessary to its existence, or we would not exist.
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