When you look at a clock.... does it seem like the second hand is stuck?

Question

I dont know if this only happens to me, but when i look at a clock, whether digital or regular watch, that second hand seems stuck. Right when i look at the time i notice the second hand it seems like it has been on that first second for like 2-3 seconds. but every second after that runs smoothley. it is only that first moment when i lay my eyes on a watch that it takes forever for that first second to pass. anyone else have this happen to them?

just wonderin.

im not taking anything thats causing this to happen..... lol

i mean.. when i look at it for the first time im like, did my watch stop. eeverytime this happens. maybe because my mind is thinking so fast the first time i look at the watch

i think its because yes, you not only look at the clock right when that first second starts, but because you actually dont notice the first second and get stuck on the 2nd second. so you actually miss the 1 click, and you think the second click is still the first second. ahah dont know if that made sense to you guys.

Answer 1

Yes, you are accelerating your mental thoughts with in your mind so fast that you are actually slowing down your perception of time.

This has happened with me also, the first time was when I was a young boy, and my dad was driving me to school in our family van, and I seen a car driving through the red light in the intersection coming straight for us. the car collided with our van and what I am quite positive happened with in that accident and took only 3 to 5 seconds, seem to last for 15 minutes, even as the vans tires were sliding sideways across the pavement and every minute detail of the accident was recorded with in my mind as the tires kept trying to grab the pavement and the van rocked.

What you are experiencing is hyper accelerated thought, and with respect to observations then time seems to slow down.

Time is only measured with respect to our perceptions of it. however reality occurs in trillionth of a second measurements, and you could think of it like taking high speed photography where the shutter is left open and a large number of camera film is forced through the shutter at high speed.

The closest thing that I have observed which resembles hyper accelerated time observation is on the movie the matrix.

Answer 2

No, but I have seen the first tic go backwards, in other words, as soon as I look at the clock, the seconds hand tics backwards once, then on forwards like normal from then on.

I wonder if it's a riff in the space/time continuum?? Either that, or the computers have changed something in the matrix???

No, I seriously do see what I said sometimes, the other stuff was just goofing.

Answer 3

Yes, I have also done drugs before. No only kidding, I think the reason for it (yes you're not the only one) is that you you have looked at your watch at the exact moment that the second started and then it just seems longer that usual.

Either that, or you need to replace your watch batteries or there is a global conspiracy to freak you out and to get you to spend time and energy thinking about arbitrary things that will eventually drive you insane and cause you to be institutionalised and they will lock you away in a padded room with no windows and definitely no clocks!!!

Answer 4

Yep ... happens to me, too...

Are we sometimes 'stuck' in our own personal time warps or are we just part of this frenetic, seemingly haphazard 'rush' to our collective future ?
Like the threads that make the material texture of our universe, our individual existences are inticately interwoven into, and essentiel to, the 'grand movement' to the next iota of 'time'...
But perhaps as sentient beings, we sometimes need and get the chance to see, feel, perceive the whole from the exterior ...
Sometimes, perhaps we just 'take five'...

;^)

Answer 5

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Answer 6

all the time

i look at a clock and it seems as it takes longer for the first tick than the rest

Answer 7

yes for the Digital ones

Answer 8

Lay off that california special dude

Answer 9

Yeah, I get that. I think it might be some kind of clue about the reality of our existence. Or maybe not.

Answer 10

YES YES YES !!! Definately. I've had this happen lots of times. Weird innit?