🧵 How would this drug work?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 19:39:35 UTC No. 16264805
I'm writing a story involving characters being drugged to make time go by slower.
Time appears to move normal, but several hours to them might only be a few minutes in the real world. But they're trapped somewhere in a prison away from the world, so they don't notice the effects and don't even know they're drugged.
The question is, what would the real world actually look like to them, assuming they could experience it? Would the world outside be moving in slow motion/appear unmoving? How would a "sober" individual be viewing the characters? How would the two interact? It seems like the sober people would have to see the drugged as moving ultra fast like they're in fast-forward, but that couldn't be possible.
I can't grasp the specifics. The characters will probably never see the real world while on the drug, but I need some way to suspend disbelief and make this drug believable for the sake of the readers. The drugged characters will be doing various things, having conversations, walking around, eating, etc. so it's not like I can say they hallucinated all of it.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:36:28 UTC No. 16264899
>>16264805
take meds or kill self.
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:48:05 UTC No. 16264913
>>16264805
im trans btw
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:03:46 UTC No. 16265224
>>16264805
the world would appear much faster to them.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:10:10 UTC No. 16265226
>>16264805
>drugged to make time go by slower
>several hours to them might only be a few minutes in the real world
Learn how to read before trying to write.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:11:18 UTC No. 16265227
>>16264805
Would the drug be slowing down their current perception of time (ie they talk slowly) or their historical perception of time (ie they feel like their days are taking forever to finish)?
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:12:48 UTC No. 16265231
>>16265227
>ie they talk slowly
ie they talk quickly
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:39:25 UTC No. 16265259
From experience in reality (fiction *can* be fictional), you experience time normally in the moment, but you lose track of your sense of time due to the intensity of what you experience. You come out confused about mundane reality like what day it is and sometimes you get this uneasy feeling that days or weeks have passed. But in the moment (I've done psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants aplenty) things seem to move at normal pace.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:52:12 UTC No. 16265325
>>16264805
Our body is kept cool and hot by intake of air and exhale.
If time is moving slow, then we cant breathe. What little air we have inside our body will only allow time stop to be as far as the length of the ability to hold breathe. So if someone could hold 1 minute of breathe, you'd have to take that into account. 1 second in real life, vs 1 minute in time stop. They'd also be pretty out of breathe and possible even over heat their brain/body
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 03:00:59 UTC No. 16265329
Adrenaline does this.
I have been in several incidents, specifically car crashes where I felt as though I had many minutes of decision time where in reality mere milliseconds passed.
A collision with a deer for instance. The entire collision from visual detection of the animal to collision happened in 3 second, however fro the driver seat I felt over 1 minute of time. I was able to consciously make micro-adjustments to brake and steering during that time as adrenaline was dumped. I inspected the deer, looking at his antler and into his eyes. I thought about the best strategy to prevent the body from coming through the windshield, and calculated the velocity of the cars behind and to the sides of me to best prevent secondary impacts.
It is unfortunate that this ability only manifests in the most critical of situations, but I can understand. The toll it takes on your entire body is beyond exhaustion. It truly taxes every cell to think that quickly.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Jul 2024 14:41:26 UTC No. 16266006
>>16265227
>>16265259
>>16265325
>>16265329
I get what some of you guys are saying about adrenaline and things like that. But I don't get how it would work long-term. These characters are probably going to spend 6-12 hours eating, talking, trying to figure out how to escape the location they're in. At the end, they find out it has not been 6-12 hours. In fact, maybe only 20 minutes have passed in the real world. If they were trapped at 1 PM, then they might escape at 1:20 PM even though it felt like hours.
I could have the drug be some hyper-adrenaline drug that gives them a 100x boost in adrenaline with few negative effects, but I still can't grasp how that would work in this type of situation. It's not as if it would literally speed up the actions of the characters to hyper-speed.