Tachypsychia is a condition that alters a person's perception of time, usually brought on by intense physical exertion, drug use or a traumatic event. Someone experiencing tachypsychia perceives time as lengthened, so that events appear to slow down, or in some cases the reverse, depending on the circumstance.
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Core ClaimTachypsychia is a neurological condition that alters the perception of time, usually induced by physical exertion, drug use, or a traumatic event. 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Time perception
Wikimedia FoundationTachypsychia subsection, paragraph 1
Tachypsychia is a neurological condition that alters the perception of time, usually induced by physical exertion, drug use, or a traumatic event.
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In psychology and neuroscience, time perception or chronoception is the subjective experience, or sense, of time, which is measured by a person's own perception of the duration of the indefinite and unfolding of events.
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