David Eagleman

And I said, what?

What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.

I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but I couldn't hold on to what had happened.

These are just a few of the moving and important stories on my 13th season of Family Secrets.

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Yeah, so I slipped off the roof, ended up breaking my nose on the brick floor below.

But the thing that really struck me about it was that it seemed to take a long time to fall from the roof.

And so I was thinking about Alice in Wonderland as I was falling and how this must have been what it was like for her.

And, you know, it felt like lots of time as I felt.

And later when I got to high school and I took physics and I learned D equals one half A T squared, I realized, wow, the whole fall took place in 0.6 of a second.

And I couldn't reconcile that.

I couldn't figure out how those, how it had seemed to have taken so long.

So I got really interested in perception.

I grew up, I became a neuroscientist and I've studied a lot about time perception in my laboratory.

And so one of the experiments I ended up doing then was dropping people from 150 foot tall tower

backwards in free fall, and they're caught by a net below.

And I measured time perception on the way down.

I made a series of discoveries there.