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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
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Subject: Re: Question (dreams)
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Date: Sat, 7-Jul-84 14:54:03 EDT
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> Now for some harder stuff: If you can really convince me that I am
> endangered I no longer think in real time. I must be thinking awfully
> fast, thought he perception I have is that everything else is moving
> very slowly. I have often wondered if this was common or not, and
> for a long while believed that it was uncommon. But I mentioned this
> to somebody and he claimed that it was reasonably well documented.
> I haven't gone looking for the documentation yet.
> 
> Laura Creighton
> utzoo!laura

Yeah, to push the brain-computer analogy, it's as if we have a
variable clock rate. Boredom slows it down, interest speeds it
up. (and danger is very interesting!)

I've noticed this effect while sliding off corners 3 and 5 at
Blackhawk. (racetrack) Sure take a  l o n g  time to come to a stop!
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