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time perception manipulation
Agent Jones · 2024-02-11 05:38
hi!
it's clear that some substances, like weed, mess up your perception of time, but i struggle to find people trying to master that effect. do you have tips to slow down/speed up time when you're high, or research in that area?
thanks
Rick Deckard · 2024-02-11 09:56
>>14781
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Become Neo in the Matrix, become fully based and zero cringe, seeing faster than anyone, knowing more than everyone.
Sabo Engle · 2024-02-11 17:49
> We compared performance of 42 experienced mindfulness meditators and 42 age-, sex-, and education matched controls.
>On average, the included meditators were comparatively highly experienced in mindfulness meditation since they had practiced on average for 10 years and had practiced regularly for an average of 7 h per week over the last 8 weeks.
>With respect to time perception indices, the focus of our investigation, the results are clear-cut: regarding subjective time, mindfulness meditators experienced less time pressure, more time dilation, and a slower passage of time.
>Moreover, in retrospective judgments, they felt that the last week and the last month had passed more slowly.
>However, and importantly, regarding psychophysical tasks in the range of milliseconds-to-seconds and to minutes, there were no group differences regarding accuracy and precision of timing performance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4294119/
>>14783
I thought that was size and distance. Time too?
Cowboy · 2024-02-11 19:04
>>14781
I've noticed time perception changes for a short period after a run. To avoid biasing your results I will not tell you in which direction.
Lady Jessica · 2024-02-11 19:29
research in (cryo-)stasis suggests a lot of it has to do with metabolism, time perception is linked to the gut, may want to experiment with fasting
as for time dilation while high, what that does is flips a circuit and activates meta-cognition (thinking about the act of thinking). it flips the track and points the perceptive faculties back on themselves, increases the bandwidth and thus information appears in gestalts as they are (able to be) processed
this essay has some decent insights http://luminist.org/archives/psychology_of_hashish.htm
Cat Mother · 2024-02-11 22:26
Zhora · 2024-02-12 08:21
>>14788
>I thought that was size and distance. Time too?
Yes. It's odd that it goes in either direction, too fast or too slow. However at its most extreme it seems to be what's happening is ordinarily your rate of perception is locked to a relationship between sensory input, proprioception, and feedback from motor output. If you decouple these systems your perception is free to run at full speed, which is the rate your unconscious sees at anyway hence why subliminals and other things work. Only unlike being Neo in The Matrix, tragically the physical body and matter itself remains as a sort of energetic "sink" bound by physical laws. So even if you get rid of the illusion of slow perception (which also creates things like motion blur, another useless illusion that can be switched off through transcranial magnetic brain stimulation) you're still left waiting for your body to move. You send an instruction and there's a major delay before it starts happening. Perception-wise though, it is like the bullet time thing in the Matrix. I played paintball and despite being extremely nauseous and weak, could practically see the paintballs slowly moving towards and passed me. Jumped over something, hung in the air forever. Landed poorly because the conscious mind can't coordinate with that level of delay. Isn't used to it anyway.
See also:
>>>/hum/77231
I need to get away from computers and human interaction to rebuild the methods I used to find intuitive in manipulating these low level systems.
Anonymous · 2024-02-15 09:59
>>14781
I remember in PIHKAL, Shulgin describes an experience of extreme time dilation from weed taken on an MDA comedown. It starts on page 76.
Yet Another Lainon · 2024-02-15 20:35
>>14781
I've found that weed accelerates my perception of time but don't really have any recommendations to combat the effect other than just limiting how much you smoke and when you do it. Time perception seems to be mostly related to how bored I am. If I'm high and waking n' baking, I'm a lot more content with being bored, time seems accelerated, the days seem to just melt together. I'm on a T-break now, and while I am considerably more bored during the day, I feel like I'm getting to experience life at a normal pace rather than just watching the minutes, hours, days, slip by. As I've gotten older, I'm a lot more inclined to simply accept the boredom so that I can at least have the perception of delaying the inevitable.
Sabo Engle · 2024-02-16 01:28
>>14814
It's the opposite for me. Weed slows my time perception WAY down. Two hours feels more closer to four or five hours. Also the more intense the high the slower my perception of time gets. When I got to try out a dab rig a few times I'd say that my perception of time slowed down even double from that. The course from around midnight to 6:00 in the morning felt like over an entire day of time.
Jane Doe · 2024-02-16 16:50
>>14815
I used to get this when I first started weedin'. It still happens but I can see through the effects and know by intuition of how much time actually elapsed
Bobby Newmark · 2024-02-21 19:12
DXM is the most reliable tool for manipulating time if you got the enzymes for it.
Splicer · 2024-02-21 21:45
>>14814
The perception of the speed with which time passes correlates to the formation of novel episodic memories. Your memory is not a DVR, probably, but if it were it would typically be an annoying kind of "smart" DVR that just decides not to bother remembering events that are pretty much the same as other events you already remember. What good is there in retaining the uneventful minutiae of the same drive to work every day? Hence, vary your activity, introduce spontaneity and novelty, give room to serendipity and answer more eagerly when opportunity for new people, places, and undertakings comes knocking, and you will find a lessened perception of time flying by in a vague blur, because now there are more distinct keyframes where there was what amounts in memory to extended periods of skipped time