Some hypothesize that flashbacks might be the brain searching for relevant useful memories, or hallucinating if it can’t find any. Or, perhaps emotions or physical issues cause your brain to function differently and it’s not an adaptive trait.
Time slowing down does seem useful in the event you can actually affect your circumstances.
I remember telling my kids how much better TV was when I was young. So to prove my point a player them a random episode of the Ringo Star series if Thomas the Tank. After about 10 minutes my kids were horrified because the Fat Controller was burying Gordon alive (!!) because Gordon didn’t want rain on his new paintwork.
After that I realised maybe kids shouldn’t be exposed to the weird shit people thought was ok in the 80s.
That story is an original from Rev. W. Audry (my grandmother bought a lot of those books for me as a child, I specifically remember that story and Gordon being imprisoned until he accepted his lot in "life").
It wasn't just okay in the 80s / early 90s, it comes from waaaay before then.
I know! It’s not like it’s an obscure location, either. I feel like my grandpa knew everything about Liverpool but “They proved why the universe is made of matter here.” never came up.
I can't say the history was well-known even generally in the Liverpool department when I was a student, knowing Mike Houlden, and Arthur James, and John Holt less well. I was at least somewhat aware of it, though. I gather the unit of data-taking was the suitcase full of paper tape, but I don't know how that was analyzed.
