“You don't think time is relative? Have an attractive woman and an ugly woman take turns sitting on your lap and then estimate how much time has passed with each.”
Over 30 years ago I was teaching some warehouse workers how to use - or in this case how not - to use a high lift. I warned them to never to ride the pallet on the forks. At the time I was on a top self near the roof of the warehouse. With just one foot I was showing touching hte pallet and showing how unstable it was. I lost my balance nad fell. On the way down I remember seeing the shelves go by and thinking what a heck of a way to end hte day and then the line from The Magnificent Seven when Steve McQueen was telling a joke about a guy who fell from a building - "So far, so good."
Luckily I hit a shelf on the way down and it helped break the fall. The only injury was to my pride and a threaded rod that went a couple of inches into my right leg.
The secongd tiem was just a couple of years ago when I was geocaching with my youngest son. I was on top of a stone wall and lost my footing. Everything was slow on the way down. I tried to use my feet to "run" down the wall but I still hit hard on my right shoulder. I remember trying to twist and keep my head up until after the impact.
Head was OK...well, it's just my head... but my shoulder is still pretty messed up.
So there IS a slo mo effect as far as I'm concerned.
Oh Yeah! Been there. Remember it like it was yesterday!
Vampires (incoming missiles) always took forever.
I saw a car pull out in front of me and I slammed my foot into the brake pedal. I was using all my strength and should have locked up the wheels. It felt like it took a full ten seconds to hit the car. I thought, “why isn’t this brake pedal doing anything?.” Then it got all grey and blank in front of me and then the air bag deflated. When I got out of the car I saw that the distance was no more than twenty five feet and in the real time I probably did not even move the brake pedal all the way to the floor.I had been traveling at probably 40 mph.
Seconds literally feel like minutes.
"O-o-o-o-o-h-h-h-h f-f-f-u-u-u-u-d-d-d-g-g-g-e-e-e!"
Good post. Reminds me of the kinds of stories that used to fill this forum.