[aarohmankad]

I'm incredibly interested in how the brain experiences time during events of stress or high action. (The skier tripping/falling is used as a visual example in this article.)

On a much smaller scale, I wonder how time experience is changed among individuals who consume media at different speeds? For example, I watch all video media (Youtube, Netflix, various movies) at 2x speed. It could be intriguing to compare my experience of a movie versus someone who watched it regularly. Does the constant 2x-ing affect my evaluation of time in regular life?

I'd be happy to read any and all articles/papers you may have on the topic.

[lordnacho]

> I'm incredibly interested in how the brain experiences time during events of stress or high action.

Read the book Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed.

There's a couple of sad examples. One is some doctors who lose track of time while trying to intubate a patient. Another is an airline pilot losing track of the fuel level while trying to figure out whether the landing gear has come down. Both preventable issues where people's focus narrows so much they lose sight of the critical variables.

[dfee]

Consuming significant amounts of content at enhanced speeds leads me to be impatient with typical human interactions.

That’s problematic enough where I’ve given pause to the practice.

[aarohmankad]

That's definitely something I've experienced as well! I've learned to take the time to absorb what people are saying/meaning with a greater degree of detail. (That's at least how I believe I'm behaving, though it's tough to self-analyze.)

[stephengillie]

Moving from this state, to a state where typical human interactions seem rapid, is like a context shift. Difficult to do without a change in location/scenery.

[citrablue]

The super fascinating thing is the difference between how the brain experiences time and how the brain remembers itself experiencing time. It seems possible that intense experiences cement more details in your memory, which your brain interprets as having taken longer, without actually affecting the "in the moment" realtime experience.