Sometimes clocks stop when I look at them.
If I glance at a clock at the right instant, the second hand will sometimes pause for at least a second and a half before continuing at its normal speed. If I try to replicate this feat nothing happens. Why is this? Is it an optical illusion? Does the brain momentarily pause itself to absorb new information? Or is this one of those Quantum things in which observing an event actually changes it? I’m pretty sure I’m not just imagining it. What do you think?
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no ur brain just shuts down. w/c is normal
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i notice that, i guess when u look at it the second hand would have just moved, so it needs a whole second to move again,,.n btw to notice this u must be really annoyingly board!!
When I look at a stop light for a long time, it changes colors! Really!!!!
Come on, I’m not claiming to have time powers or anything. I just think it’s weird.
Do I have to defend myself everywhere?
And If I look at the stop light for about an hour, it keeps on changes colors and it makes cars stop!
littlenick wrote:
When I look at a stop light for a long time, it changes colors! Really!!!!
haha, no this is a new one,. how close are u lookin?! :D
I remember I was at a restaurant the other day at three o’clcok in the morning and every time I heard a bell ring, a waitress would walk out of the kitchen with food in her hands! That’s was awesome!
I tried it at home at 4 am and kept on waiting for my mom to come out of the kitchen with food in her hand and I rang it about 30 times, my mom came out of the bedroom and swatted me on the head with the broom and went back to sleep! :(
Somehow I get the feeling that you are not taking this seriously.
I have observed the same phenomena too since years ago. But unlike you, i can replicate it if i do it (look away, then look back at the clock) repeatedly.
littlenick wrote:
I remember I was at a restaurant the other day at three o’clcok in the morning and every time I heard a bell ring, a waitress would walk out of the kitchen with food in her hands! That’s was awesome!I tried it at home at 4 am and kept on waiting for my mom to come out of the kitchen with food in her hand and I rang it about 30 times, my mom came out of the bedroom and swatted me on the head with the broom and went back to sleep! :(
mmmmm, a bell :}
i think i should try that, ill hide the broom first.. ;D
Nine is alive wrote:
Somehow I get the feeling that you are not taking this seriously.
Whatever gave you that idea?
Kal☺ wrote:
littlenick wrote:
I remember I was at a restaurant the other day at three o’clcok in the morning and every time I heard a bell ring, a waitress would walk out of the kitchen with food in her hands! That’s was awesome!I tried it at home at 4 am and kept on waiting for my mom to come out of the kitchen with food in her hand and I rang it about 30 times, my mom came out of the bedroom and swatted me on the head with the broom and went back to sleep! :(
mmmmm, a bell :}
i think i should try that, ill hide the broom first.. ;D
lol! class :D
“Sometimes clocks stop when I look at them.”
Quote from the post.
So you have a face that stops a clock?
I heard about this, suposably its an optical illusion but some people think your brain speed changes and others think time really stops.
It’s called Relativity. Specifically Time Dilation. My sincerest apologies everyone else was so sarcastic and jackassed about it.
Twerty wrote:
It’s called Relativity. Specifically Time Dilation. My sincerest apologies everyone else was so sarcastic and jackassed about it.
speak for yourself, i wasnt -_-
This has very little if anything at all to do with time dilation. It is just the brain doing a poor job of noticing its surroundings well. I knows that the clock hand is moving, but with poor accuracy until you focus on it. Once you focus on it, that bad accuracy switching to a more precise judgement of time is the delay or pause that you notice.
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