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Old 06-28-2004, 10:35 PM   #3
Amassus
 
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Re: "time shift" effect

Yeah, your primal brian takes over in those cases. Your primal brain controls your flight or fight response, your lust, your fear, all those instinctive attributes you process.
It sends signals to the rest of the body, the adrenal glands are activiated, your whole body is put into overdrive to avoid the danger. The higher brain is cut out of the picture. There is no time to think clearly because if you take the time to think you could be dead.

My brother was mugged a few years back when he was training in Jujutsu often. He beat his attackers off but at the time had no idea what had occurred. He had to have counciling to get the events clear in his head. Amazing how all his training just took over, the higher brain was pushed aside and the instinctual brain took control.

"flows like water, reflects like a mirror, and responds like an echo." Chaung-tse
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