–Some believe that when you’re really scared, you can perceive more, as if your senses were running at high speed. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that your perceptions of time may change, but you really don’t. To scare people, they had them fall over backwards without ropes or restraints over a fair distance with only a net to stop them. They reached 70 mph by the end of their fall. The subjects (who volunteered to do this!) perceived that their falls lasted a third longer than they really did. Watch-like devices were strapped to their wrists to flash numbers, and the subjects failed to discern any more numbers during their falls than the non-scared controls.
So it looks like people can’t really enter altered states to dodge bullets in slow motion like Neo in The Matrix…
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