Altered Consciousness & Perspective

[RascalPuff]

Having participated in counseling for post traumatic stress disorder, regarding a series of near sudden death experiences - of self and others, I was inspired to compose the following abbreviated dissertation...

Subjective Time & 'Slow Motion'.
Focused consciousness induced by a frightening event can result in the subjective ‘slowing of time’. The hyper alerted (consciousness expanded) brain, processes more information in a shorter period of time. The result is the perception of more time having passed due to the assimilation of more information at a faster rate than when the brain is not on ‘alert’. A given grid of normal conscious flow becomes more dense when the brain is transformed in hyper awareness. In retrospect, when the brain returns to normal focus, the comparative density of the experiential grid contains more information than it usually absorbs in a given unit of time.

Any further comments or explanations are respectfully invited.

Best regards,
- RP

[labelwench]

Hello RP,

Having survived one of those experiences myself and having enjoyed? a rather adventurous existence to date, I am familiar with the perception of time that you make reference to.

Indeed, since I started working the night shift, I have perceived time quite differently.

"Micro-sleeps" are the seeming opposite of those "slow motion" events that you reference.

On my way to work presently, but I'll be back....

Labelwench