Neuroscience

I keep thinking of animals (such as pigeons) who experience the world at a higher FPS, i.e. in slow motion / higher temporal resolution relative to us

Humans experience this occasionally e.g. when going through an accident / life-threatening situation

Is it possible to chemically induce this state of hyper vigilance?

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Interesting! I see it’s an opioid painkiller, I would have naively assumed that it would dull your senses, not make them sharper.

Also, first time I hear of video game doping 😅

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First usage of Tramadol after a long break off it tends to have this subjective effect on me. Maybe 20% improvement? Quite amazing for video games, breezing through situations that would kill me 99% of the time in my baseline state.

I'm talking about experimental/non-OTC stuff that has been shown to put people into an extreme state of hypervigilance, like when your brain is flooded with adrenaline from a fight-or-flight response. When you actually feel that everything around you is slowing down, you pick up all the details, you think twice as fast

Modafinil? I don’t think it promotes vigilance in the sense of experiencing world in slow motion, but surely promotes wakefulness.

Thank you, @christin. Yes, that’s indeed the effect I had in mind

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I don’t know, bc there’s drugs like pregabalin that would slow down time perception but…you are also very slow actually 😅 and I think you are asking for something closer to the matrix bullet time / limitless pill as others have mentioned

if it exists it’s probably under DoD research NDA 🥴

I strongly prefer the highest FPS possible for anything from games to movies to regular TV. Low frame rate is basically unwatchable for me, even when others don't notice it all. What's weird is that sometimes, after watching high FPS, real life looks higher def for a few hours. It's like unlocking a superpower!

Probably hallucinogens affecting serotonin can induce this state but pretty sure you would not be able to control it precisely. Don't know is there are any studies on this though. Otherwise it is that Limitless pill.

Amphetamines can give this type of quality, but have lots of downsides... usually you'll run up against an organism's set point for these kinds of things. Push out of equilibrium, against the set point, lots of downstream disruptions.

Inducing this state when deciding what to eat for dinner 🫨

Reminds me of that Bradley Cooper movie, Limitless.