Eagleman added this illusion "is related to the phenomenon that time seems to speed up as you grow older. When you're a child, you lay down rich memories for all your experiences; when you're older, you've seen it all before and lay down fewer memories. Therefore, when a child looks back at the end of a summer, it seems to have lasted forever; adults think it zoomed by."

And though the results of this study can lead towards disorders linked with timing, such as schizophrenia, Eagleman believes "it's really about understanding the virtual reality machinery that we're trapped in,"Our brain constructs this reality for us that, if we look closely, we can find all these strange illusions in. The fact that we're now seeing this with how we perceive time is new."

amazing!

yes

after my accident, the memory of it comes back to me in slow motion. Or is it just me? does everyone get this?

The sense of time "slowing down," is fairly frequently mentioned.

I've had the experience a couple of times. It's brilliant.
I think of it as a protection mechanism of our bodies/ourselves.

It's not that time 'slows down,' but more like our brain 'speeds up,' -- i.e. becomes super alert, pays focused attention and this allows us to react (if we don't hesitate)

That's my story. First time was driving behind a pickup truck and suddenly a chair came flying off the pickup up truck heading right into my car's front window/ windshield.

T-I-M-E S-L-O-W-E-D D-O-W-N.

It sure does. I was in a car accident once ( was driving), no seat belt, I swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle. I ran up on the curb and was thrown sideways in the car. My head went through the window on the passenger side. I remember opening my eyes and seeing sparkling bits of glass floating by and thinking how soft the window actually was.

Classical musicians talk about the difference (while listening to music) of real time and perceived time. When I was an orchestra musician, sometimes, deep into a long piece, the pause between movements seemed to be a timeless, motionless place in another world.

When my daughter was dying and I gave her CPR, I too felt time slowing down. I remember details and seemingly did more in the space and time alotted me than I thought was possible in that few minutes.

Masbury- I can't say I have felt that way between movements of classical music, but when I am leading worship at church, it feels like it lasts forever at times.