🧵 Drug for the brain - How would this work?
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 21:05:11 UTC No. 16269502
I'm writing a story about a drug that affects the brain. It makes time go by slower for the person affected. For simplicity, let's say 1 hour to the drugged person is actually just 1 minute in the real world. But the drugged person still acts and experiences things normally as if they're not drugged.
This happens to a small group if people who are trapped inside a prison. While drugged, they're trying to figure out an escape. In the meantime, they spend maybe 6-12 hours eating, talking, walking around, etc. However by the end of the story, only 6-12 minutes would have passed in the real world.
My question is, how can I write this in a believable way? How would someone not drugged be seeing someone who is drugged? They couldn't simply see the drugged people as moving at hyper-speed because that isn't humanly possible. But it's sci-fi, so I could make it possible, right? I just want to be able to have the reader suspend their disbelief. Is there any other option? Would it be more believable to say the prison was also experimenting with time, and there's a weird time distortion going on there?
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 21:10:07 UTC No. 16269511
You asked this 3 days ago and we gave you mediocre answers, largely because there isn't a known drug like what you are asking for.
You're a fiction writer, right? Make it up. You can make up some shit about a chemical extracted from a rare vine in Ghana that does whatever you want.
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 21:31:34 UTC No. 16269541
>>16269511
>there isn't a known drug like what you are asking for.
I know that, but I'm trying to find an answer that is feasible through our understanding of the human body and time. I realize I can make up anything, but I don't want to get too far into superhero territory where it gives them powers because that's what it does. I want some semblance of believability.
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Jul 2024 22:52:38 UTC No. 16269631
>>16269541
Yeah I know what you're saying, but I'm not sure how to answer you. I guess it would just look like the people were moving at 10x speed, but I'm sure there are creative ways to deal with it.