For several months now, I've become highly conscious that I seem to have a different conception of and reaction to time. I've been thinking for a while about posting a thread on how people with PTSD "interact" with time. How do you feel time inside you? Is there a disconnect between time in your inner self and time in the "real world." How do you cope with time?
All these things have been banging around in my brain. Right NOW, I'm stunned because I just now watched a TEDx talk for something I'm doing for work, and the speaker mentioned something about his experience of time--he called it Tachy Psychia. The way he described it made my eyes open wide. I looked it up and read about it on wikipedia. There aren't any references in the wiki post, and I haven't found much about it on the web yet. But I've experienced many of the physical and emotional symptoms associated with it off and on throughout my life.
Here's what the intro says:
All these things have been banging around in my brain. Right NOW, I'm stunned because I just now watched a TEDx talk for something I'm doing for work, and the speaker mentioned something about his experience of time--he called it Tachy Psychia. The way he described it made my eyes open wide. I looked it up and read about it on wikipedia. There aren't any references in the wiki post, and I haven't found much about it on the web yet. But I've experienced many of the physical and emotional symptoms associated with it off and on throughout my life.
Here's what the intro says:
- Tachypsychia is a neurological condition that alters the perception of time, usually induced by physical exertion, drug use, or a traumatic event. It is sometimes referred to by martial arts instructors and self-defense experts as the Tachy Psyche effect. For someone affected by tachypsychia, time perceived by the individual either lengthens, making events appear to slow down, or contracts, objects appearing as moving in a speeding blur. It is believed that tachypsychia is induced by a combination of high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, usually during periods of great physical stress and/or in violent confrontation.
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