Dr. David Eagleman

You know, this guy got in a motorcycle accident and had, you know, come off the motorcycle and turned over and over and over on the road.

And he said, as he was rolling over and over, he was like composing a little ditty in his head, like a little song to the

sound of his helmet hitting the road and so on, because this is the kind of bizarre thought that people have.

But it seemed to have taken a long time, and when he saw footage of it afterwards, you know, the whole thing took whatever, a second or two, but it seemed to him to have taken six seconds.

But again, it's in retrospect when he's thinking, what happened?

What was the event like?

By the way, I'll just mention after I published this paper, sometimes people would come up to me after a talk and say, I know that's not true because I was in a car accident.

I know it took a long time.

And I said, OK, look, the person on the passenger seat next to you who was screaming, no, did it actually sound like they were saying no?

Because if time were running in slow motion, that has to be the consequence that everything is spread out.

And they had to allow that it didn't sound like sounds were distorted and so on.

So it is really about having a higher density of memory.

So anytime you're doing something novel, and this actually ties back to the conversation we had before about seeking novelty, whenever you're doing something novel, you're writing down more memory.

And that's the whole key.

So for example, if you spent your last weekend going off and doing something wacky that you'd never done before, parasailing over sharks or whatever the thing is,

You'd come back and you'd think, wow, it seems like it was so long since Friday.

Now it's Monday.

It's been forever since I was back in the studio.

But if you have a normal weekend where you're not doing much of anything but surfing Instagram or something, then you come back and you think, God, it was just Friday.

The difference is just how much memory you clocked and therefore what you can draw on in terms of footage.