Slowing down time perception

[kakkarot]

ok. try finding a huge area of land that is filled with cacti. then start running across that land. AS FAST AS YOU CAN. then try to see the cacti before you step on them and move your feet from where it was going to land, onto a safer spot.

soon enough your bodies instinctual reactions will force your mind to percieve things faster so that you are better able to prevent yourself from getting hurt by avoiding the cacti.    this is how my perception increases first came about. it's fun

don't worry, after an hour or so the cactus needles don't hurt so much anymore. LOL.

~kakkarot

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[Tom]

There are no cacti where I live. Running around in busy traffic sounds like a good way to get arrested, injured, or killed. Any other substitutes?

[distant bell]

Hey kakkarot!

Do you have cactus in canada?

Felix

-- Love is the Law - Love under Will --

[kakkarot]

yeah we have cactus up here.   but i guess some wouldn't think so with the perception that canada is just a place of snow. lol

other suggestions: um. how about a pirahna tank?  :p  just kidding.

actually, by trying to do anything that could incure personal injury to yourself, and speeding it up to the point where you don't have complete control of it, should bring about a different state of mind, where focus is extreme and brain processing speeds up vastly.

just don't do anything that would bring about permanent or lasting harm to yourself. do something that would only hurt for a little while; another reason for this is because if you put yourself in TOO much danger, your body and your mind will look for ways out and won't respond as well to you doing those things. so make sure not to push yourself WAY beyond what your body can do or it will just not respond very well.

~kakkarot

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[timeborg]

hmmmm running through cati that sounds like fun. But I could suggest something more dangerous but safe. Get chased by a pack of pug dogs or a group of old ladies who want to pinch your cheeck. Sure enough you run like hell. Maybe watching paint dry or grass grow, thats a good way to slow down time and get bored.

Joshcatz

[bitsmart]

I direct you to my second post on this thread: http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1037 dealing with dropping dollar bills.

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[Ashfo]

Heh... It was once suggested to me that you do this...

Buy a baseball glove, mask,  a paintball gun and several hundred dollars of paint.

Get your friend to shoot you and try to catch them. To start off get him to shoot them near your glove, then further away.

Problem is its so goddam expensive.


- Ashfo

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[kakkarot]

actually timeborg (even if you were just joking), the point of running through cacti was to force you to have to react quickly and precicely in very little time. just running doesn't help much. unless you were in a room FULL of grandma's who were ALL trying to pinch your cheeks and you couldn't get out. lol  (DODGE LIKE CRAZY!)

but if you ever found yourself in that situation, you would probably be in hell  

~kakkarot

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[timeborg]

I was in hell when I was a little tot being draged by my mum to these old ladies meetings kakkarot.But you do make a very valid point and did not mean to mock it in anyway. Have done something simular like trying to find patches of green cool grass from summer backed tarmac and in a way it dose slow down time(for me anyway)

Joshcatz

[DjMidgetMan]

On a previous post Kakarot was talking about speeding up your reaction time, and seeing things in slow motion... Could someone explain some excercises or simply how to train your mind to be able to do it??

DjMidgetMan
  "Mind over Matter"

[baddspellahl4]

when you say cheeks, i hope you mean your face

[karnautrahl]

Stuart Wilde recommends going into "alpha" or a decent level of trance and then either use a metronome or a ticking clock with a second hand.
What you do is try to put your attention/awareness between each tick and each movement, and try to make that second feel longer and longer.
His claim is that you can get to a point where it seems like an hour for 1 second.
Never took it that far but I did try watching the large fan in our house on maximum, I sort of changed my perception of the motion, again that could be illusion though

[Wronski Feint]

I have had different experiances in which time seems to slow.  Once I was playing around in art class and I was chasing my friend around the room.  My shoe came off and I fell. It felt like I was falling for 30 seconds before i hit the ground.  When i got up I heard someone behind me say "It looked like he fell in slow motion" and when i hit the ground, i didnt hit it hard.  There had also been times before this in which stuff falling off tables or me dropping somthing had slowed down in time for me to catch it.  Im not trying to do this, it just happens.  

I have been trying to control this by practicing.  I ask my friends to try to punch me, so i can see if i can block it (it kinda works)  Pratice by playing dodge ball.  Know you can be faster than the ball. I hope this helps  

[ARCHDRAGON]

I have been capable of maipulating time up to 15 seconds i can make 1 second seem like 15 seconds
or 15 seconds seem like 1 second and I can easily
pause time for 1 second, once I managed 2 seconds
it was a game I played when I was little, and I gradually tried to make the time. I always have to prepare for 30 minutes to 1 hour, and the change is only noticable by me others around won't notice any change.

[Alexander]

This sounds similar to a technique I have heard called Lentation.

Try looking it up.

-Alezunde (Alexander)

[Swarooptheone]

a fast paced computer FPS game would work well for this purpose

but . . .is there a way to perceive time the way it is portrayed in the 'matrix trilogy?

anyway, in the past, ancient people have done it. . . .

[Kodemaster]

I guess if you yakked someone's ear off for a minute about something they were totally not interested in, you could make it seem like 5 minutes...

[Kris]

try getting someone to throw balls at you.. HAHAHA

[griffins_talon88]

Well I have done some exercises that aren't so..well...dangerous..The way I practice is by doing simple, sometimes I use my cat. I play with him until he chases me, I then try to dodge his paws and when he tries to pounce, that does the trick for me, he hasn't scratched me yet!!

[griffins_talon88]

I have several other methods that have also worked for myself and several other, which I am more than willing to share!!

[Naiad780]

This reminds me of a friend of mine who learned Japanese sword-fighting (Shinkendo?)

He said they practiced with wooden bokkens and didn't hold anything back.  Yes, they got bruises and cuts.  Yes, it hurt.  The pain they experienced made them learn quickly and developed their reflexes.

[ARCHDRAGON]

good, see practicing kung fu can help your psychic
abilities, i have made good use of this when we play fight, and speed up time for me and and can do 15 seconds worth of attacks in 1 second. does'nt sound like much but it does make a huge difference.

[Gene]

I have several other methods that have also worked for myself and several other, which I am more than willing to share!!

I would like to know more about your methods for time perception slowing

[abyss328]

Altering perception of time sounds real interesting. I know Martial Arts definitely improves reflexes: when I was younger my older brothers used to gang up on me (playfully, of course) and through punches at me. I got REALLY good at blocking multiple attacks from both of them at the same time. Although I know that my reflexes had obviously improved due to these 'exercises', I don't know if my perception of time altered as such.

I'd be interested in hearing some other 'tried and tested' techniques for altering time-perception. Oh ya...

[Scorpyn]

Altering perception of time sounds real interesting. I know Martial Arts definitely improves reflexes: when I was younger my older brothers used to gang up on me (playfully, of course) and through punches at me. I got REALLY good at blocking multiple attacks from both of them at the same time. Although I know that my reflexes had obviously improved due to these 'exercises', I don't know if my perception of time altered as such.

When you block punches a lot you start to predict the punches, starting to block even before the punch is made after a while. You will notice this if one of them suddenly stops and doesn't move his hand where he intended to hit.

The only question is - who will be more freaked out when you block a punch where he intended to hit? You or him?