Ever wonder why you can’t swat a fly? It’s not just reflexes... it’s biological time travel.
A new study reveals that time perception is linked to metabolic pace. While we’re stuck in Real Time, smaller, faster animals are essentially overclocking the universe.
Link: theconversation.com/animals-perception-of-time-is-linked-to-the-pace-of-their-life-new-study-275124
The 300 FPS Life... Humans see at about 60 frames per second. To a dragonfly or a small bird, the world moves in slow motion. They process visual data so fast that your quick swat looks like a lethargic, frame-by-frame crawl.
High-speed perception requires massive amounts of metabolic energy. Evolution only grants this "Matrix bullet time" ability to creatures that need it to survive high-speed hunts or aerial dogfights.
To a starfish, the world is a blurry, centuries-long smear. To a fly, we are the sluggish giants of a frozen world.
Crazy that we all share the same space, but we’re traveling through time at different speeds. Our steady LED lights are actually disorienting strobe lights to high speed animals... it's like a glitch in the matrix we created because our eyes are too slow to see it.
Maybe one day we could overclock our brains to see the world in slow-mo...
Now that I think about it, our brains do overclock naturally during intense adrenaline moments (like a car crash), which is why people often say... time slowed down.
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A new study reveals that time perception is linked to metabolic pace. While we’re stuck in Real Time, smaller, faster animals are essentially overclocking the universe.
Link: theconversation.com/animals-perception-of-time-is-linked-to-the-pace-of-their-life-new-study-275124
The 300 FPS Life... Humans see at about 60 frames per second. To a dragonfly or a small bird, the world moves in slow motion. They process visual data so fast that your quick swat looks like a lethargic, frame-by-frame crawl.
High-speed perception requires massive amounts of metabolic energy. Evolution only grants this "Matrix bullet time" ability to creatures that need it to survive high-speed hunts or aerial dogfights.
To a starfish, the world is a blurry, centuries-long smear. To a fly, we are the sluggish giants of a frozen world.
Crazy that we all share the same space, but we’re traveling through time at different speeds. Our steady LED lights are actually disorienting strobe lights to high speed animals... it's like a glitch in the matrix we created because our eyes are too slow to see it.
Maybe one day we could overclock our brains to see the world in slow-mo...
Now that I think about it, our brains do overclock naturally during intense adrenaline moments (like a car crash), which is why people often say... time slowed down.
