Dr. David Eagleman

But by the time you're our age, you've sort of seen all the patterns before.

And so what we're, you know, when we look back at a summer, we don't have much new footage to sort of anchor on.

So we say, oh, well, it was the winter.

Now it's the fall.

Okay, fine.

I guess that was really fast.

You know, it's really close.

I wouldn't say I wouldn't use the term frame rate in there.

It's just that you have under normal circumstances, you write down almost nothing.

You just everything's passing through.

You're not really remembering much.

But in an emergency situation, your amygdala being the emergency control center says, everybody stop what you're doing.

This is the most important thing going on.

Everyone pay attention to this.

So you're noticing every detail and you're not used to that.

So just for anyone who knows what I'm referring to here as a Bayesian issue.

you know, your brain thinks, okay, a certain amount of memory must equal a certain amount of time.

Now you've got just a lot more detail.

And so it says, oh, well, that must have been, you know, six seconds or something.

What I did, by the way, I collected hundreds and hundreds of subjective reports from people who had been in accidents of various sorts.