http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/10/17/slow-motion-catches/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2005/10/17/slow-motion-catches/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Bats Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:56:08 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/?p=420#comment-781 I have heard the perception of time slowing down as <i>tachypsychia</I>, typically in columns by the gunwriter <A>Massad Ayoob</A>, e.g., "He experienced, to greater or lesser degrees, the three most common perceptual phenomena that occur in incidents like these: tunnel vision, auditory exclusion and the slow-motion sensation of tachypsychia." These three things, BTW, show up over and over in the incidents Ayoob investigates--including trained pros like FBI agents. I have heard the perception of time slowing down as tachypsychia, typically in columns by the gunwriter Massad Ayoob, e.g., “He experienced, to greater or lesser degrees, the three most common perceptual phenomena that occur in incidents like these: tunnel vision, auditory exclusion and the slow-motion sensation of tachypsychia.” These three things, BTW, show up over and over in the incidents Ayoob investigates–including trained pros like FBI agents.

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