Dr Hagura found that “ the more people prepare for an action, the more dramatically time seems to slow down for them just before they actually begin the action.” ” – Big ThinkĮxtrapolating from this, I found a paper by Dr Nobuhiro Hagura about how time slows down for professional sportsmen allowing them to make the winning move. Instead, it’s a completely retrospective assessment… when you’re in a life-threatening situation, your brain writes down memory much more densely, and then retrospectively, when you look at that, you have so many details that you don’t normally have that it seems as though it must have lasted a very long time. “people don’t actually see time in slow motion during an event. What they found was that although the volunteers estimated their own fall to last about a third longer than dives they saw other volunteers take, they found that the brain did not actually speed up during times of danger. The video featured an experiment from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where researchers dropped volunteers from great heights to scare them to see if danger makes people experience time in slow motion. In this episode, they featured an incident where a group of men are caught in a firestorm and their slowed-down perception of time allows them to make the right decision that ultimately saves their lives. Here’s what it essentially covers:ĭuring emergencies, our perception of time seems to slow down. I have only watched the episode on brain power. The Human Body: Pushing the Limits contains four episodes – sight, strength, sensation, and brain power.
Part 1 – My Brilliant Brain: Born Genius.I found My Brilliant Brain – Unlocking Some of the Brain’s Biggest Mysteries from National Geographic a much more informative documentary on the power of the brain: It didn’t really cover anything I didn’t already know and what it did cover wasn’t really what I was looking for – except the part about lucid dreaming which was far too brief to be meaningful. Although it touched on some interesting subjects on the power of the brain, it was more like a very brief introduction and lacked the depth I was hoping to find. I finally got around to watching it and I was sadly disappointed.
I bought the Discovery: Human Body – Pushing the Limits series because I was interested to see what they had in the section on “Brain Power”.
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