Clocks
I have a habit of taking glances at clocks. Not just to check the time but to see if i can one day, just one day, take a glance and the second hand moves straight away instead of that perculiar and impossible 2 second delay before it seems to move on. Is it just me, i am a bit mad aren't i ?
checks clock................bastard!
(boarders You won't catch me with my trousers, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 21:56, 7 replies)

that 2 second delay boils my piss
dont tell me it doesn't happen... it's like the watch is waiting for you to look.

it happens on my Tag and on my £2 Casio. infuriating.
(DissolvedMynci, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:31, closed)

that's interesting
the same thing happens if you take your ear away from a phone when you're calling someone, when you bring it back to your ear there seems to be a much longer delay before the next ring.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:32, closed)

now the science bit
When you move your eyes to look at something, your brain stops seeing whilst your eyes are actually flicking to what you are going to look at (you can see this yourself if you flick your eyes from far left to far right and back again, look really carefully and you'll see nothing for a split second). This leaves the brain with a gap and so it backfills the timeline with what you're now looking at. If that happens when you look at the second hand on a watch or clock, you think you've been looking at a stationary second hand between ticks longer than you actually have.

This doesn't happen with sweep second hands
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:37, closed)

apparently
we're all half a second behind. A bit like DAB radio.


www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a743900378&fulltext=713240928
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:43, closed)

and Sky
which technically means you're not watching tv as it is being broadcast and is therefore a defence for not having a TV Licence.

Also, if you haven't already done so, read this book. It is fabulous:

www.amazon.co.uk/Phantoms-Brain-Human-Nature-Architecture/dp/1857028953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278284234&sr=8-1
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 23:54, closed)

Orderd!
He did the best Reith lectures I've heard.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 5 Jul 2010, 7:28, closed)

For me
I quickly glance at the clock, there's that 2 second pause before the hand moves, then, try as I might, I can't repeat it until a week later or whatever when it catches me off-guard again. Seems like I can't force it to happen.

I like to think I've accidentally gone into bullet-time when it happens.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 19:41, closed)