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'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by jorgesborges »

andai wrote: post #29
yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

> We can't do that when we're awake I started using a timer about ten years ago for mundane tasks (getting done a chunk of unpleasant work, or for cooking) and these days I'll get up from my desk to go check on the oven right before the timer rings. It works regardless of the length of the timer, and even when I don't know exactly how many minutes it is (twisty analog oven dial). I don't consciously know how much tim…

I worked in the culinary world for a long time and we called this our “oh shit!” timer — being caught up in some task to suddenly remember to open the oven at the perfect moment before something burns.

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Post by carapace »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #100
carapace wrote: post #79

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EFT is unrelated to head tapping for setting internal wake up calls. In EFT you're tapping on the end points of the meridian lines to send a kind of "reset pulse" to clear emotional issues. (At least that's the concept.) To set a "wake up call" you (basicplus2) tap your head with your finger, but probably not on a meridian point, and you're not trying to clear an emotional issue. Also, some people tap their whole hea…

Ah right, thanks, I wasn’t sure if the two were related.

Cheers!

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Post by sieabahlpark »

eloisius wrote: post #120
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #118

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> I was just "too smart" to sit in class bored all day or whatever. Yes, you WERE too smart to be forced to sit around and learn at a pace that was way too slow for you. Imagine how much you could have learned if you were progressing at your own pace (let's say top 10%) rather than school curriculum pace (let's say tuned for 90% of students to keep up) Think about how much more successful you could have been in progr…

> if you had learned calculus by 8th grade Joke's on you. I still haven't learned calculus.

They taught it too slowly to you for it to sink in.

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Post by droopyEyelids »

eloisius wrote: post #45
andai wrote: post #29

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> We can't do that when we're awake I started using a timer about ten years ago for mundane tasks (getting done a chunk of unpleasant work, or for cooking) and these days I'll get up from my desk to go check on the oven right before the timer rings. It works regardless of the length of the timer, and even when I don't know exactly how many minutes it is (twisty analog oven dial). I don't consciously know how much tim…

I have the exact opposite sense of time. I'm frequently several minutes late to meetings because I've completely lost track of time. I'm very cue-dependent, and with this everything-at-home lifestyle we've transitioned to, I often have split-second confusion that I'm just having lunch in the middle of the day and have to go back to work in a minute and not go take a shower like it's after dinner.

I've had both of the experiences described in this thread, and I believe the key is whether you genuinely want to do the thing at the time.

If you actually want to wake up at the prescribed time, you can do it. If you think you SHOULD wake up at the time, no dice.

If you have 27 minutes of working on something you want to work on before a time limit for something else you want to do, you'll know. If you have a time limit before something you "should" do? no dice.

There is quite a bit of stuff in life that works this way, and it was shocking to me how often I've confused what I "should" want with what I actually want.

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Post by byteface »

scruple wrote: post #64
byteface wrote: post #22

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you ever had a dream?

I have aphantasia and I do not recall my dreams. Never have. I tried various dream recall techniques over the years. Nothing worked.

someone waking you up during rem should do it right? or about 4 days after quitting weed. those ones get real powerful and lucid.

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Post by hikarudo »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #111
ButWhatFor wrote: post #76

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I thought it was the other way around? As you get older your perceive time as moving more quickly? As you get older every hour is a smaller percentage of your total life, so that made sense to me?

I think this is a side effect of one's life becoming more routinized as they grow older, and having fewer memorable moments in each day. Anecdotally, I had this feeling of time moving more and more quickly, and "that thing which feels just a week ago was actually a year ago" until my early 30s, when I finally decided to unsubscribe from routines. As I gradually moved away from having a daily schedule, I had more time…

This sounds super interesting! What do you mean by unsubscribe from routines? Could you give some examples? What effects did doing this have on your life?

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Post by marakv2 »

andai wrote: post #29
yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

> We can't do that when we're awake I started using a timer about ten years ago for mundane tasks (getting done a chunk of unpleasant work, or for cooking) and these days I'll get up from my desk to go check on the oven right before the timer rings. It works regardless of the length of the timer, and even when I don't know exactly how many minutes it is (twisty analog oven dial). I don't consciously know how much tim…

This happens a lot in hospitality. Most chefs I know (myself included), set a timer, then go back to the job just before the timer goes off.

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Post by rekabis »

yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

My asleep brain can do the exact same thing, even with consistent sleep deprivation (although it gets increasingly difficult beyond a sleep deficit of twelve hours per week).

On the flip side, my awake brain is completely and totally time-blind. I can go _hours_ on a subject I am obsessing over, and think it’s been just thirty minutes. Asperger’s sucks.

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Post by lexicality »

sosodev wrote: post #77
Loughla wrote: post #50

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My experience is that it is much more difficult to focus on any individual task, but much easier to enter a 'flow' state with ADHD. If I can manage to do 'thing a', I find that often, all the world falls away - regardless of what the thing is. I also have a theory, completely unfounded and out of my own ass, that ADHD and other similar issues are just part of the spectrum that is autism. Any scientist want to confirm…

From what I understand ADHD and Autism share some symptoms but ADHD isn’t part of the spectrum because the causes are different. It’s generally understood that the effects of ADHD diminish as you get older but the effects of Autism do not.

My current understanding from the research I've read but don't have to hand: a) A lot of people with ADHD also have autism so the symptoms get lumped together but ADHD's actual symptoms (executive function issues, time blindness, rejection sensitivity, unexpected drug interactions etc) are completely unrelated b) ADHD symptoms never go away, adults just learn to hide them and develop coping strategies because it's largely socially unacceptable to be weird

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Post by Drakim »

ckosidows wrote: post #72
Drakim wrote: post #34

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You likely have Aphantasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia As for your question, yes! I don't need to actually close my eyes, I can think about certain things and see a vivid image of it deep inside of my mind. If you need something to compare it to, can you actually hear music in your "mind" when you think about a song? It's kinda like that.

I wish we had a better way of conveying what goes on in our heads. I have dreams and I can visualize things, but it's never like I'm "watching" a dream or memory. While I'm dreaming it feels real, but when I recall a dream it feels visually distinct from a lived experience. It's like I "see" things but my eyes aren't doing the seeing. Is that what others experience, or are dreams visually identical to the real world?

To me dreams are visually alike the real world. Sometimes I struggle to remember if a particular memory happened in dream or real life (provided nothing too wacky happened).
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