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 someone's own perception of the duration of the indefinite and unfolding of events.
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