There is also some information about time perception and Dopamine.
This is an excerpt from Wikipedia-
~
Stimulants produce overestimates of time duration, whereas
depressants and anesthetics produce underestimates of time duration.
Psychoactive drugs can alter the judgement of time. These include traditional psychedelics such as
LSD,
psilocybin, and
mescaline as well as the dissociative class of psychedelics such as
PCP,
ketamine and
dextromethorphan. At higher doses time may appear to slow down, speed up or seem out of sequence. In a 2007 study, psilocybin was found to significantly impair the ability to reproduce interval durations longer than 2.5 seconds, significantly impair synchronizing motor actions (taps on a computer keyboard) to regularly occurring tones, and impair the ability to keep tempo when asked to tap on a key at a self-paced but consistent interval.
[46][unreliable medical source] In 1955, British MP
Christopher Mayhew took
mescaline hydrochloride in an experiment under the guidance of his friend, Dr
Humphry Osmond. On the BBC documentary
The Beyond Within, he described that half a dozen times during the experiment, he had "a period of time that didn't end for [him]".
[citation needed]
Stimulants can lead both humans and rats to overestimate time intervals,
[47][48] while
depressants can have the opposite effect.
[49] The level of activity in the brain of
neurotransmitters such as
dopamine and
norepinephrine may be the reason for this.
[50] Dopamine has a particularly strong connection with one's perception of time. Drugs that activate dopamine receptors speed up one's perception of time, while dopamine antagonists cause one to feel that time is passing slowly.
[5]
This has been an area of research that I'm really fond of because when I'm not high TIME GOES BY SO SLOWLY its almost agonizing, you can theoretically equate this to having a dopamine deficiency or AKA ADHD/ADD. So theres definitely something going on here that needs more research. When I get the opportunity I will certainly research this myself, but that may be years in the future. I'd like to hear you guys feedback because I feel a lot of people on this site have or has had the same problem. (Thus drug use/ and addiction)
Another thing, I do not respond to Adderall/amphetamine the way that people who have ADHD "claim" that it works, even though as a child I was diagnosed as this. They say it doesn't make them "tweak" but makes them feel normal. For me, even 5mg of Adderall IR will have me tweaking balls, and I never understood this? And the side effects/comedown are awful. My personal preference of drugs are depressants (opiates, benzos, cannabis, even disassociatives ) and psychedelics (even psychedelic amphetamines).
I'd like to hear some more responses from you all out there about this.
(Actually thought this was another thread, but we'll see where it goes. Unless it can be made into its own.)