Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

So then those emotional signals, even though I'm not aware of them, and a really good example of this is dissociation.

So in dissociation, the part of my brain is still like fucking on fire, hyperactive, but I have no awareness of it.

So if you measure someone who's dissociating, really fascinating.

If you measure like vital signs for someone who's dissociating, oftentimes they're not normal.

So their heart rate will be elevated even though they feel perfectly fine.

The other really interesting example of this is there's a psychiatric state called catatonia.

And in catatonia, I wish I could show y'all.

If you ask them a question, it may take them minutes to answer.

Now, here's the really interesting thing.

Got a question for y'all.

If you ask a catatonic person, what does it feel like?

So they're super slow.

What does it feel like to be catatonic?

What do you all think they say?

You may think that they say, oh, it feels like time has slowed down.

It's actually the opposite.

People who are catatonic, their subjective experience of catatonia is that life is moving incredibly fast.

They're the opposite of lagging.

There's way too much stimulation and it's overwhelming.

So they're frozen when everything is firing past them over and over and over again.