Dr. Ellen Langer

The clock is rigged.

So for a third of them, the clock is going twice as fast as real time.

For a third, they're going half as fast.

And for a third, it's real time.

Then we assess their blood sugar level.

Blood sugar level follows perceived amount of time, not real time, whatever that is, because the mind and body are a single unit.

That's amazing.

Let me tell you a story about something that happened recently that people are going to get crazed with this, but that's part of the reason I'm telling it.

Okay, so my partner and I are leaving Mexico.

We have this giant armoire.

She steps on the shelf of the giant armoire because she wants to see if there's anything that she put on top of it to hide.

Okay.

The armoire now forces her to the floor, knocks her head onto the concrete floor.

Okay.

She's trapped by this armoire that weighs twice what I weigh.

If I hadn't been there, she would have bled to death.

Okay, so it's imperative.

I have to lift this thing that weighs twice what I weigh.

And I'm able to lift it enough for her to get out from under.

Now, when I tell this story, that it's not yay me, that people say, oh, it's the adrenaline.