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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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okei! offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 111 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (1 minute after post)

no ur brain just shuts down. w/c is normal
ur in love

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Kal☺ offline Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (6 minutes after post)

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!!

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Dr. Wilson offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (10 minutes after post)

Or you are making it up?

first multi personalities, now this?

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littlenick offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 158 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (11 minutes after post)

When I look at a stop light for a long time, it changes colors! Really!!!!

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Nine is alive offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
CA | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (11 minutes after post)

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?

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littlenick offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 158 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (12 minutes after post)

And If I look at the stop light for about an hour, it keeps on changes colors and it makes cars stop!

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Kal☺ offline Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (12 minutes after post)

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

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littlenick offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 158 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (17 minutes after post)

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! :(

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Nine is alive offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
CA | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (19 minutes after post)

Somehow I get the feeling that you are not taking this seriously.

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vicente_el_payas offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (22 minutes after post)

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.

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Kal☺ offline Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 43 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (23 minutes after post)

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

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Eddieee online Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 684 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (23 minutes after post)

Truth be told, some clocks do this “momentary stopping” to keep time.

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littlenick offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 158 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (24 minutes after post)

Nine is alive wrote:
Somehow I get the feeling that you are not taking this seriously.

Whatever gave you that idea?

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evansent:) offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 435 #
GB | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (31 minutes after post)

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

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littlenick offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 158 #
An Undisclosed Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (33 minutes after post)

“Sometimes clocks stop when I look at them.”

Quote from the post.

So you have a face that stops a clock?

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sum offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (1 hour, 50 minutes after post)

I heard about this, suposably its an optical illusion but some people think your brain speed changes and others think time really stops.

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Twerty offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months ago (3 weeks, 5 days after post)

It’s called Relativity. Specifically Time Dilation. My sincerest apologies everyone else was so sarcastic and jackassed about it.

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sum offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 6 months ago (3 weeks, 5 days after post)

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 -_-

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 3 weeks ago (5 months after post)

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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