I don’t know how I got the opposite idea from the show I was watching. They were doing the experiment and I swear they said the people could see the numbers better. Perhaps if I had been bungee jumping while watching the show…
Fascinatingly, it seems that it is the perception of time that increases and with it the recording of information.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I don’t know how I got the opposite idea from the show I was watching. They were doing the experiment and I swear they said the people could see the numbers better. Perhaps if I had been bungee jumping while watching the show…
Fascinatingly, it seems that it is the perception of time that increases and with it the recording of information.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/129112147
ABUMRAD: In that instant, our memories go wide open.
Mr. EAGLEMAN: Because thats what memory is for. Its for when everything hits the fan. You want to write it down and remember it.
ABUMRAD: So all of it goes right to your hard drive - the clouds, the feeling of the air. Oh look, theres a guy in a blue shirt.
Mr. EAGLEMAN: So when you read that back out, the experience feels like it must have taken a very long time.
KRULWICH: Hmmm.
Mr. EAGLEMAN: It must have.
KRULWICH: Normally, the trivial stuff gets dumped but in this situation, it gets written.
ABUMRAD: And then you realize how much trivial stuff is in there.