Warp Speed Nine

Having read my previous posts on how to manipulate your perception of time to advantage, let me mention that sometimes you have no say in the matter. Have you seen the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye? A species of aliens moves so fast they're invisible to humans who only perceive a buzzing noise as they flit around, while the aliens see humans as statues, stuck in time.

This is exactly how I see elderly people when I'm whizzing around a supermarket and they're motionless, stuck in indecision between choosing between raspberry or strawberry jam, or trying to remember why they're in the pet food aisle when they don't have a pet.

And on the roads, when they're trundling along at pedestrian pace, and then emergency stopping when a crisp packet blows across the road. To them, I must suddenly appear out of nowhere at frightening speed. We're living in the same physical world but our time is ticking at a completely different rate.

Something interesting to look forward to in a few decades.

Physiologically, the reason for this decline is a combination of deteriorating senses (vision and hearing), plus the longer cognitive processing time needed to make sense of incoming information.