Dr. David Eagleman

To my knowledge, there's no data on what it would be to sort of throw yourself back and forth between these different space-time scales.

I love it, though.

One of the classes I teach at Stanford is called Brain and Literature.

I've always been a lover of literature.

And one of the things that I love is when authors do exactly this, where they zoom in on something really tight and they're really paying attention.

And then they zoom way out.

that is the most extraordinary sort of feeling.

So anyway, I commend you on coming up with that version of space-time meditation or whatever it is.

That's very smart.

That has to do with Ulysses' contract thing, which is just, it requires a commitment to say, I'm going to be the kind of guy who's always on time.

And the way to do that is to say, I'm going to commit to always being five minutes early.

So you get to a place early and you just hang out in your car and you, you know, take care of some texts or whatever.

That's the way to be always on time.

OK.

But are people good at perceiving time?

No.

We're actually quite terrible at it and some people are better than others.

But one of the lessons that's emerged from my research on this stuff is that a lot of time is illusory.

So you may know I did this experiment years ago.

I was very interested in this question of does time run in slow motion when you're in fear for your life?