The man who saw time stand still

Simon Baker got up one morning with a horrible headache.The day before he had been lifting very heavy boxes and it seemed that he had not yet recovered.Maybe a cold shower could clear him, he can that even take away the pain.But something strange happened suddenly.Just when Baker opened the tap he realized that the water, without knowing how, fell very slowly...it was as if time had set the "pause" in the purest Matrix style and everything happened very, very slowly...

What happened to Simon Baker? Had he suddenly acquired the powers of a true lord of time? At all, we explain it to you.

The strange case of Mr.Baker

We know that there are really strange diseases that often escape even the world of science and medicine, but what It happened to Simon Baker had a clear origin, although a really amazing trigger.Mr.Baker had suffered an aneurysm due to the physical effort made the previous day.A blood vessel had exploded and that was causing him to suffer temporary hallucinations.

Incredible hallucinations that suddenly plunged him into a real world that was in slow motion.His case was treated by the neuroscientist Fred Ovsiew of Northwestern University, in Chicago, who discovered a new case of this type, whether you believe it or not, has already occurred on numerous occasions.Patients who may experience how time is accelerating («zeitraffer») or slows down ("akinetopsia").

Another case Interesting is that of a Japanese man who described the terrifying moment in which the world stopped being synchronized around him, according to him it was like a poorly folded movie, where people talked but voices came out of their mouths with more slowness and out of compas.Really strange.Another woman related that one day, when boarding the train, the landscape progressed with special slowness, while she noticed that the speed at which they traveled did not fit at all with what she saw before his window.

When he went to the hospital, things got even worse...His movements and his way of speaking had also become slow, slow, so much, that when he was asked to count 60 seconds aloud , it took up to 286 seconds to complete the task.Authentic "X Files" with a well-known neurological basis.

These shocking disorders are based on a specific brain structure: the area of the visual cortex V5. And it's all because our sophisticated brain processes reality through a kind of sequence of frames very similar to those of the cinema.But when those small parts that join each frame are broken, the Perception of time changes and produces this type of anomalies.In some way, our movement perception system has its own internal chronometer, which records at a standard rate, the same rhythm that we all share equally to see life in the same sequence temporary, in the same channel so to speak.But when a brain damage occurs, our world simply stops...

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