There is an opinion that time is constant and continuous. It moves only in one direction with the same speed, and neither nature, nor man, nor machine can change time. But is it really so? There are many examples when eyewitnesses of events talk about slowing down or speeding up the passage of time.
Psychologists explain all the known irregularities in the rate of change of time by the peculiarity of the human psyche. The more we rush somewhere, the faster time goes - it flies. The less interesting the business we are doing, the slower the flow of time - it drags on.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of documented evidence that cannot be explained by the peculiarity of the psyche. When a mortal danger threatens, then a person is faced with the phenomenon of time compression and stretching.
Test pilot Mark Gallay talked about a case when a fire broke out in the air during the tests of the La-5 fighter. He described the observed picture as follows:
During military conflicts, there are many unexplained events that are associated with time. This can be explained by the fact that the world is coming out of its calm state and the person's reaction, of course, changes. In situations where there is a threat to life, one cannot ignore the effect of an agitated psyche. But, having familiarized with the memories of the participants in the events, the question involuntarily arises again: what is time in human life?
In July 1941, attack pilot Sergei Ivanovich Kolybin flew in a single IL-2 on a dangerous mission, which could be his last. But no imagination would have sufficed to imagine that he would be the first and only pilot to survive a land ram. But that is exactly what happened.
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The attack aircraft was shot down, and German soldiers were already hurrying to the place of its intended landing. Kolybin turned the plane abruptly and crashed into the bridge. IL-2, before exploding, hooked the bridge structure with its wing and turned over. Kolybin was thrown out of the cockpit, and time stopped in his perception. He managed to see the expressions on the faces of all the Nazis around him, to see how some of them tried to get out of the tank hatches, others ran away from the flames or fell to the ground, but all their movements were inexplicably slow.
Is it possible in such a situation to have time to do something to save your life or help another? A. Leonov and V. Lebedev recall:
Medicine calls these phenomena an inexplicable loss of orientation in time. The archives of anomalous phenomena contain an interesting description that was made during the war years. Soldier Fyodor Nikolayevich Filatov, a native of Balashov, experienced several painful minutes in an instant of explosion. As if bewitched, he saw fiery streaks running along the steel shell of the shell, the metal cracking and slowly, "like in a dream", fragments scatter.
The researchers assure that the description he gave during the Second World War exactly matches the later high-speed video recordings. People who have experienced this phenomenon tell at first glance incredible stories:
In 1992, paratrooper A. Konakov, falling from a height of thirty-five meters without a parachute, claimed that he was able to group and land correctly only thanks to the inexplicably extended time.
In the same 1992 the newspaper "Propeller" investigated the testimony of another parachutist, who described one of his jumps made in 1988:
Raymond Moody, in his famous book Life After Life, cited many eyewitness accounts for whom time changed its normal course. This always happened in the moments preceding clinical death.
In August 1992, G. Snedkova returned to Moscow from vacation. Nothing boded trouble, the track was flat and half empty, when suddenly:
Researchers of the Phenomenon group note the physical manifestations of high-speed jumps in time. For example, watches on the hands of eyewitnesses of unusual events suddenly start to rush. It happens that people who are nearby, who do not even know about the imminent danger, unexpectedly for themselves begin to see "slow motion". For those on the brink of death, not only the speed of movement increases, but also the strength of the muscles.
The researchers explain the last statement by the fact that the muscles do not become stronger, they just work over a longer period of time. Moreover, the impulse of force increases as many times as time is "stretched". That is why, fleeing from wolves, people sometimes climb up completely smooth tree trunks, and when they see a bear, they can jump over a high fence from a place.
There are cases when time is not stretched, but compressed. This happens when the danger is close, but has not yet arrived. In the summer of 1974, in Kyrgyzstan, in the Tien Shan mountains, Sergei Ratnikov almost fell into the abyss. The brother helped, who instantly, according to Sergei, overcame several tens of meters and held out his hand.
Researchers have long had no doubt that the human body has colossal reserves. Moreover, some of these reserves, "turning on" in critical situations, help a person to influence the world around him.
Do we have a time management body? Most likely, we not only have it, but is also constantly in action. Each person's time is individual. Even a person's appearance can tell you how his “internal clock” works.
Where is the time management mechanism hidden? According to A. K. Suhwala, this organ could well be located in the brain, more precisely, in the hypothalamus. According to R. Sharru and A. Priyma, the so-called third eye serves these purposes. According to other sources, the spinal cord claims this honorable role.
Used materials by Galina Zheleznyak, Andrey Kozka