Science claims that time always flows at the same speed, and no one can change this - neither man nor nature. But there are times when a person's sense of the passage of time changes and it seems to him that time accelerates or slows down its run. Usually such a feeling appears when a lot of events happen in a few seconds and the consciousness cannot “fit” them into ordinary time intervals.
Many facts are known when a person in moments of mortal danger feels that time slows down, as if it stops. Many people, when describing dramatic events, say: "It feels like time has stopped." The front-line soldiers claimed to have seen shells and bullets flying at them. They survived only because they managed to evade them. At first glance, this seems impossible, because the human eye cannot perceive objects that move at such a speed. However, the words of the participants in the hostilities are confirmed - more than once a soldier suddenly dived to the bottom of the trench, and in the next instant a fragment or a bullet plowed the parapet in the place where his head was a second ago. Some people said that they saw a brick falling from above or an icicle falling from the roof. Objects flew in slow motionso they didn't even have time to get scared. And there are a lot of such examples.
So, once the car of cosmonaut Vladimir Aksenov stalled at the crossing over the railroad. About fifty meters from the corner at that moment a speeding train appeared. The driver would not even have time to get out of the car - in a second the train would inevitably crash into it. Aksenov pulled the ignition key out of the socket, and then put it back in and slowly pressed the starter. Immediately the engine started and the car, having derailed from the rails, froze a couple of meters from the passing train. The cosmonaut had such a feeling as if the carriages passed as in a slow motion movie. He even managed to make out the pale face of the driver, who did not even start braking.
Another incident took place in an alpine camp a few years ago. The Georgian instructor Vakhtang said that that day he walked together with his friend. He moved first, and his friend stayed at the edge of the snowfield to insure him. When Vakhtang was almost halfway there, he noticed cracks on the sides and slightly higher from him. Then huge sheets of ice and snow slowly rushed down. The instructor did not feel fear and acted as if there was nowhere to hurry - he looked out for a large frozen piece of snow and jumped onto it, then chose the next one, etc. His friend couldn't believe his eyes when he got out of the avalanche - in fact, it all happened in a split second.
Statements of this kind - about slowing down the visual perception of fast-moving processes - have not yet been rationally interpreted. They are incomprehensible and amazing.
Chemists, physicists and philosophers agree that the course of time is unchanged and all events occur within a strictly defined time frame. Then what happens to a person when it seems to him that time passes very slowly or has stopped altogether? Perhaps the whole point is in the acceleration of biological processes in the body in critical situations - nerve impulses pass faster, muscle fibers contract more often, although a person does not feel or realize this.
The researchers analyzed people's stories about their feelings and made the corresponding calculations. As a result, they concluded that the course of their own time can accelerate 130 times. Therefore, everything around is happening 130 times slower and it seems to a person that time has stopped. This hypothesis is confirmed by the fact that all people who have experienced "time standstill" claim that everything happened in a strange silence. This is quite simple to explain - when the individual time is accelerated by more than a hundred times, the sounds entering the ear turn into infrasounds that are not perceived by the human hearing aid.
Researchers from the College of Medicine conducted an experiment to test whether time for a person actually slows down in a moment of danger. Volunteers without belay were thrown from a height of fifty meters backwards. They, of course, fell on a special net, but everyone still felt a very strong fear. Each volunteer felt that their flight lasted much longer than it actually was. They fell in a matter of seconds, but for them it seemed much longer. A person who experiences the strongest fear falls into a kind of trance. In this case, all systems of the body begin to work with acceleration. A person begins to think much faster.
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Physicist and chemist Ilya Prigogine argued that each person constructs his own time at every moment of being. At critical moments, the brain controls its own time, i.e. can slow it down almost hundreds of times, and maybe speed it up. There is a clear example that proves this. The Boers, who began the seizure of the lands of the scythe and the Zulus in the 1780s, faced an amazing phenomenon - African healers could speak from the bullets of their warriors. As a result, they attacked the Europeans, despite fierce fire. Some remained unharmed even when they were shot at point-blank range. The bullets did not bounce off the Africans, but they did not hit them either. Then the colonialists did not begin to deal with this riddle, because all the conspirators were finally killed. But today the secret of their invulnerability can be explained - African warriors could arbitrarily accelerate the flow of their individual time and, thus, dodge bullets. But they died, as this could not go on forever.
Some yogis in the East seem to be capable of stopping time. They know how to disappear right in front of amazed spectators and find themselves behind their backs. This phenomenon has long been described. The rituals that helped to become invisible were described in the oldest Indian manuscripts, written in 2500 - 1400 BC. These manuscripts say that concentration of thought is necessary for the complete disappearance. Do yogis possess teleportation or are they able to speed up their time as much as possible, which is why the audience does not see them? In contrast to critical situations, a person experiencing positive emotions has a faster subjective sense of time. A person simply does not notice how time passes.
So, we can say with confidence that the states of fear, mortal danger and stress transfer the body to the so-called "emergency mode of operation", which is accompanied by an increase in the speed of perception of the surrounding reality and the speed of thinking. Perhaps this is done to reduce the loss of time in the implementation of protective actions from the onset of danger? The body must fight to the end with the use of all available means and forces.