"When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion"

"Eagleman and colleagues at Baylor and the Harris County Psychiatric Center in Houston asked people with schizophrenia and those in a control group to report how many stimuli, such as letters, pictures, and faces, they could perceive as they watched a series of rapidly flashing screens. The results suggested, Eagleman says, “a single flash that to you lasts 100 milliseconds, might seem like 120 milliseconds to someone with schizophrenia.” This 20 percent difference at the sensory level, he speculates, could belie temporal dysfunction at higher cognitive levels. For example, it could make it difficult to map the internal dialog one routinely hears in one’s “mind’s ear” onto oneself. In such a situation, Eagleman suggests, the frequent report by schizophrenics of hearing voices might amount to a rational interpretation of their subjective, temporally-dysfunctional experience."
http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/when-bad-things-happen-in-slow-motion

Really interesting questions about subjective human experience, and all the ways that different people can experience the world differently. The discussion of the differences across animals is also really interesting: "There is some evidence that this temporal dimension could be critical to the planet’s ecological competitions"