Chronostasis: When time appears to freeze!

[@mildymorbid]

I just found this channel and when I looked I seriously expected it to have 1.2 million subs. it's crazy you don't.

[@jlwilder8436]

He will. It was in the hundreds until very recently. 7K the other day, 10K yesterday to 13 + today... 👏👏

[@bobdrooples]

Criminal isn't it

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@Commonwealth of Man 22k just a day later. He's about to blow up

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Watched few videos while wondering as youtube recommended, and +1 sub 👍

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[@bobdrooples]

Not a plank time wasted. Seriously straight forward and concisely explained. Top drawer educational entertainment. Thank you.

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A pleasure

[@7vector]

That’s really weird but also really cool, the brain is incredibly complex and strange and there’s probably way more little things like this

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[@otgv]

Really clearly articulated, verbally and voice-wise, very interesting topic and love your style (no music, the tempo of your voice). There are so many ruined "science channels" with over the top compression on the vocal, not-fitting dramatic music and over-enthuasiastic insincere voicing with little to no content

[@mikesmith1290]

This explains why I think I can keep time on the drums, when I actually can’t

[@MarkAMMarrk]

I'm 63 and I've wondered about this most of my life. I can't believe it's real, I just assumed it was my perception of that 1st second not having a reference point, but was never convinced. THANK YOU! I just found your channel and am enjoying your precise, accurate explanations. 👍

[@FirstNameLastName-gq4tb]

Here before this channel blows up (it deserves to, great work!)

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im so glad i found your channel

[@meguemil8542]

Recently found this channel and I'm in love with it! So happy you are still making videos! Can't wait for more

[@hamjudo]

I often notice the effect when looking at my final score in a solitaire game on my phone. I concentrate on the final move. Once my brain locks in the plans for my finger tip, it sends my visual focus over to look at the score. As covered in the video, the brain locks out the visual cortex while moving focus. The first image it gets after the move shows the final score. It pretends that the final score was visible way back at the start of the shift of focus. Meanwhile, I know that my finger tip was still in motion back then. It looks to me like the game anticipated my final move and preemptively updated the score.

I am a musician for 55 years. I no longer have the ability to play on the level I once did due to a brain injury. I can remember living in the next moment instead of the current one where time stood still in my perception and allowed me to predict the future in a certain way. I remember seeing the physical action, my finger angle, the attack. the changing pressure applied to the playing surface.. it all seems very relative and I will tell you that I saw my surroundings differently as this affected my global perception as well. I just got a chill! Fun. Cheers!

[@thetalantonx]

@ My condolences on the loss due to your injury, and my thanks for your sharing your perspective. Do you think that mechanism, floating in time, is a part of being able to improvise with other musicians? Everyone involved can access that floating awareness of what is about to happen and makes it click together? (I know part of it is speaking a shared language, in effect, and knowing what "rhymes" might be coming up.)

[@panc8ke324]

FYi, The seconds hand on a watch or clock that continuously moves is called a "sweeping" seconds hand.

[@robair67]

I had to replay from 4:17 to 4:30 because, as the explanation was being given, I tried the idea out and happened to look back at 4:17 on the video (slightly freaked out), and then again at 4:30 (considerably more freaked out)! Frankly, looking away and back at those two exact points in the video, now it's ended, is leaving me more freaked out than the initial weird stopped clock effect!

[@GothicGamer2012]

The same effect also happens on my microwave timer between numbered seconds. I didn't know the name of the effect but I've known about it for a long time. There are 2 other visual effects I don't know the name of or anything about them as well and I hope I can find an explanation for those someday.

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Just found your channel. I think we have a massively underrated channel here ;)

[@rosalynredwood4542]

Just found this channel yesterday...the videos are addicting!I hope you have many many many more subs as time passes but for now I'm loving the small community here 💖

[@cujimmy1366]

And this is why my timing when using a metronome is rubbish, well that is my new excuse.

[@nahCmeR]

That checks out

[@busterjay64]

Good luck to this channel! Fascinating.

[@LearningCurveScience]

Thank you very much.

[@jimcabezola3051]

I never was conscious of this perception. Fascinating...

[@mynameiswesker]

Ive always realised that since I was a little child. I never though this phenomenon had a name though. And sometimes i have the sensation the second hand is moving backwards.

[@jekanyika]

When look at a clock sometimes it seems to me that the second hand is going backwards for the first tick.

[@timallen7050]

Me too

[@ReflectiveLayerFilm]

This was awesome. I always have this happen to me an never understood what was going it. It made me think on a couple of occasions that I may have to change the battery on my wall clock.

[@seraphik]

it only works if you happen to look at or near the beginning of a second btw - because if you're looking mid-second the brain's extension of the second will just make it look like a normal second. i had to try to several times to see it, but when i did it was trippy af

[@LearningCurveScience]

Yes you're correct. It works best at the beginning of a second, if that makes sense

[@comic4relief]

After your eyes move to the region where the second-hand is they keep making tiny movements. But it seems like during the chronostasis that the point of view is static or frozen. The image in your head is like a still photograph for a bit.

[@strikermodel]

I'm at 0:43 and I'm gonna take a wild swing at this. When you put enhanced focus on something: sound, light, objects, taste, ect; your mind prepares to react more quickly to the stimulus, and therefore the mental "window for reaction" is wider. This makes it seem like it's moving more slowly. HAHA I WAS RIGHT!

[@matts2581]

I tell people all the time at work, "Don't get stuck in the time warp" - from looking at the clock and "time seeming to go slower." :P

[@bombud1]

This is good stuff. You should post more. I went to sub and didn't notice i already was. Channels make strange, sudden, random rises. This could be your turn.

[@ludgerkres.1437]

Hmm, I don't experience this as much as I probably should. Trained myself very extensively to count seconds almost precisely as it is advantageous in video games sometimes.

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Just found xpir channel and I love it!

[@robertmccormack1208]

Content is great but I recommend to add some background ambience, just so I can enjoy this with headphones while lying in bed! Genuinely great content

[@LearningCurveScience]

Thank you. I agree, I had some negative comments on some videos about the music level, and probably over-reacted and got rid of it (I think some of it was a bit loud to be honest). On my new videos that I'm working on currently, I have put the music back but at a much lower level.

[@Bonez0r]

@@LearningCurveScience For what it's worth, I actually prefer the way it is now, with just your voice and some sound effects here and there.

[@knutejay]

I wonder if the same effect occurs for other things that require our immediate attention after a seccade. For example, I’ve found that when I focus my attention on my heartbeat, it seems to nearly skip a beat at first. I’ve assumed I could control my heartbeat in some small way. I’ve never considered the idea that it might be an illusion!

Subbed. Awesome content!

[@prototropo]

But there's a hitch in the process: how can there be no antedating for the smooth-movement clock-face? The brain is the same brain when viewing either clock, so why do we not see an immobile second hand, or perhaps a "repeat" of the hand's most recent movement, as the antedated image of regard?

[@calamityoblivion301]

This phenomenon probably happens for me since I always watch every single video I see in 2x speed.

[@sergioreyes298]

Fascinating! But doesn't the time it takes for electric signals to travel from the eye to the brain and get processed (about 0.10 sec) also contribute tom this effect of "time freezing"?

[@whatitmeans]

Does this phenomena named Chronostasys is the same one that makes you see things in slow motion during an adrenaline peak??.... I saw in youtube a video about the boxing trainning of Vasyl Lomashenko were he made specific brain trainning so he can manage it to see-think-react faster than the opponent... Is this related to this video?

[@bobdrooples]

I thought the same. They disproved the brain "slowing down" by reacting quicker but this seems to fit the gap that theory left. Kudos

[@iamtiredtomorrow]

Time slowed down listening to the narration of this video

[@AngryNotSoOldHippy]

I do not see any apparent delay, no. Never have

[@cricvision8375]

Planck Epoch Planck Time Planck Length Planck Scale 1) Is 5.39 × 10^-44 seconds equal to 1.62 × 10^-35 meters 2) 5.39× 10^-44 seconds is the time it takes for a photon to travel a distance equal to the Planck length (1.62 × 10^-35 m). 3) Is the Planck epoch the same as the Planck time or the Planck length? 4) What is planck scale 5) Planck scale starting from which time and end with where

[@seagie382]

I get to be the snooty subscriber who's like "HA! I was here at 20K subs!!"

[@snowkracker]

Holy crap I thought I was the only one this has ever happened to and so I’ve never even attempted to say anything to anyone because they’d just think I was weird lol.

[@macsidia]

This happens when I'm at work, The clock never seems to move!

[@The_CGA]

This illusion works…with a mirrorless camera

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

I just closed my eyes then opened them, and did not notice the phenomena. You have to be focused on something, not nothing.

[@LearningCurveScience]

Yes absolutely, that's correct. A saccade is specifically a movement of focus. From one point of focus to another. In order to get it to work you have to look away from the clock and then back to the clock.

[@thetalantonx]

What's the mechanism behind looking at a fast moving fan blade that is backlit and then being able to change the apparent direction of motion by will?

[@giuseppeciancamerla3736]

Whenever it happened to me, I always thought that I blinked and missed a second, so my brain believed that one second lasted 2 seconds, didn’t expect it to be far more complicated…btw, why don’t you have 5 millions subs? Lol

[@jlwilder8436]

I love the "btw, why don't you have 5 million subs?" Like he knows 😆 Like WE know! 😦 We're all asking now I've been asking since he had single digits! At least people are finding it now/better late than never.

[@babydragon2047]

When time stand still...

[@ChipsyRoblox]

Bro, just 2 days ago you had 4k. But now it's 11k. Less Goooo 😀😎😃

[@itmarcel]

12.5k now

[@stein1385]

Traffic signals are the worst

[@Kushb4an]

Great content always.

[@EgadsNo]

I've had two extreme experiences of chronostasis, neither actually happened after a saccade. Once was during a kiss and the snow falling almost stopped completely. The second time was a highschool party when I was sitting next to someone who was feeling, well they put their hands over their mouth and I could tell they were about to throw up. When they did I could see the vomit cresting through their fingers and I quickly looked away to see where I could move my feet to get away- got away without a drop hitting me :P

[@cristinelarsh1610]

This goes to show that sometimes it can help to get it

[@Glurg12]

you deserve more subs

[@litfill54]

Chronostasis is a hard chart imo

[@iqnill]

I can never understand the chronostasis. Where does that "lost" time go? I know it sounds dumb, but I cannot wrap my head around it.

[@LearningCurveScience]

That's a really good question. The answer is it doesn't go anywhere. Your brain 'back-fills' the time it missed so you have a smooth-ish perception. I also find it quite strange, but fascinating, and there is no such thing as a dumb question, just someone who wants to know more.

[@RahulSharma_832]

That's scary if you do it Serval times 💀

[@frankfontaine1559]

Yeah you get this on shrooms a lot

[@ambassador-of-misogyny]

1)In brain go to options 2)Open "Occipital" settings 3)Set "Blur effect" slider to zero. 4)Disable Immune system Thank me later ;)

[@hello_there0]

Doesn't happen to me. :/

[@msski9905]

literally no one has experienced this. . . No one looks at analog clocks..

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

This is insane!

[@rachelcoffey-s5h]

I experienced this a few months ago after I ate an edible ....crazy

[@tonyS4853]

you sir earned my subscription, good job

[@LearningCurveScience]

Thank you very much and welcome aboard

[@oscaro.172]

Are you Danish?

[@ronanclark2129]

Wait this is biology

[@RahulSharma-wq4qy]

Scouser?

[@LearningCurveScience]

Not quite, but not far off. Well done

[@user-yw8sr3uj1w]

I dont experience this

[@MaIContent]

i think you made this shit up

[@RavenLuni]

I definitely dont experience this (then again I'm thoroughly neurodivergent)

[@bobdrooples]

If you don't mind me asking, divergent how? Like what is atypical and possibly the reason forlack of perceptible imperception?

[@kevinbrooks9074]

Frank Sinatra's "Balls in Yo Jaws" used to play at my uncle's house all the time when I was young! I remember him picking me up in his van after t-ball practice, it was cool because it always had candy! He always had a warm popsicle in his pants too, cream-filled I think? He used to compliment me on how good I could keep secrets. The song really takes me back to a better time! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKTReIFtYs92j9k

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4th

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

No. No. No. You’re actually FIRST!!!! Congrats.

[@michaelbartlett6864]

CS is BS!

[@jag0937eb]

Those cicadas

[@DildoFagginsNL]

Lol. So it's actually caused by neurological DLSS 🥲