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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'm not sure it is that far fetched an idea. When you are young time seams to progress very slowly. I remember being a kid, and school would be out for the summer. The end of summer was so far away you couldn't even imagine it. It felt like forever. But as we get older, time seams to pass more quickly. There is some interesting scientific research on this, and it is thought becuase the brain pays attention to every detail as a child, it seams to take longer to process. As we get older, you run on autopilot, and time flies by because your brain doesn't bother with all the minute details.
So the perception is time passing faster as you age. And becuase at death we are talking about perception, I don't think it is impossible for those last moments to stretch a very long perceived amount of time. It's a possibly I'd give more weight to that consciousness leaving the body and hanging out in heaven, anyway.
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My understanding is that time goes by faster completely due to perception. A duration of 1 year when you are 5 years old is 1/5 of your total conscious life. A duration of 1 year when you're 40 is 1/40 of your total conscious life. It's a much smaller percentage of your total life which makes it seem to go by quicker.
If we want to think about this from a scientific viewpoint, there is actually a way we'd be able to test the validity of this. There are ways to show brain activity. You can see circuits firing off in the brain as it functions. If it had the ability to slow down perceived time, you'd see the brain firing off an infinite amount of times during the last milliseconds of life. But do you really need a study to tell you this? The brain spends a ton of resources just keeping us conscious even in good health. It's not really something that you can 'overclock' to such extents.