Speed Control with Photoreceptors and Brain.

"Whatever Speed your Eyes, Ears, and Brain can process faster, the parts of your body will be able to keep up with that Speed." - ISHEMA Toussaint

Sometimes we are amazed by the abilities of animals that are greater than ours, yet we as human beings have other super abilities that we have not yet understood.

when I was young it was difficult to catch the flies that used to come to the table outside our house following the food, but with all the tricks and speed I could use I could not catch one fly. I used to wonder how can a small animal could outrun my speed.

How does it work?

Recently in the morning, when I was in bed with my imagination, I began to wonder why sometimes we can be faster than a fly but then sometimes it is difficult to catch a fly. I have found that the reason for this is that having fast vision requires photoreceptors to quickly sense changes in light and the brain to process information quickly. Photoreceptors are special cells in the retina of the eye that are responsible for converting light into signals that are sent to the brain.

This is the reason that explains how difficult it is for a person to catch a fly because their photoreceptors register changes faster 10 times than he does. In fact, flies are faster than humans because their rate of perception and ability to react to what they see is faster than ours and to understand this, you must know that time perception depends on how quickly an animal's nervous system processes sensory information and its measured in hertz (Hz).

Hertz = cycles per second. Most humans can see at a rate of 30 to 60 frames per second but for insects like flies, Eagles, and  Falcons this is a very low speed because some birds of prey can see 140 frames per second. We see things at a rate of 60 hertz but a common housefly sees things at 250 hertz, which means they take four times as much visual information per second this allows the fly to react much quicker than a human.

Back to Humans

Coming back to people, there are times when you do something amazing and then you wonder how you did it,  For example: when a baby is going to fall down and you picked him up. 2) when they throw a stone at you at high speed but you manage to escape it.

This is something that people who play martial arts, football, and cricket know very well because the goalkeeper, the wicketkeeper, and the batsman struggle to control the speed of the ball so that they can catch it or send it. Martial arts matches also match the example of the speed of a chameleon's tongue at a speed of 2,590 meters per second squared, and that speed is not due to having strong muscles, but it also has a fast speed of vision that helps it to catch small animals without missing, you must also know that the eyes of the chameleon provide 360-degree vision due.

I got to find that, The same as it happens to those who play boxing, When they are playing, the speed of their vision helps them at making changes by punching at a high speed. 

After this, I asked myself what causes a person to have this speed ability that he usually really didn't have?

Among what I thought, there are Emotions, and the first one is FEAR.

Fear:

Allows your photoreceptors to be able to convert light into signals at a higher speed which gives your brain the ability to process faster by making quick calculations with a decision and send signals quickly to the body and your certain body part to make the rapid movement that allows you to get out of certain danger. I remember one day I was watching the children who were throwing stones at each other, then one of them threw a stone that was coming closer to my head and it was at a high speed, But because of the fear that pushed me, I started to see a stone moving in slow motion, it gave me the ability to escape in a very short time, less than 2 seconds.

I remember the night of 2020 during the covid lockdown when my friend and I were on our way home, there was a car moving at a high speed, but because it was not in our direction,  we kept moving, but when it was about to reach us, it changed its direction towards us. There was a gap of 2 seconds between me and that crazy car, but in those seconds because of the fear my brain was able to use milliseconds to think about how I could escape, the next second I decided to put my right foot back and the car passed by me and hit an electric pole.

People who survived the accident in that way, when we see it in video like on youtube,  it is like other videos of 24fps, but I got to find that, that person's brain because of fear, his photoreceptions push him to see what is happening at a speed higher than 24fps depending on the distance between the object and him, and the speed of the object.  In one study, researchers found that when our attention shifts onto something novel, time appears to tick by more slowly.

Not only that but because of fear we can even speed up the time of our lives and watch it in a few seconds like a movie and make a decision. People who have survived accidents on high buildings give testimonies of this.

If the parts of your body can be able to have a very high speed but not as fast as the ability of your photoreceptors and the way your brain processes information,  that would be useless because you would always be in accidents that you're not able to control yourself.

In the future, it is possible that humans will have the ability to see things at a faster speed and analyze them, and human beings will begin to perform miracles.

Written By ISHEMA Toussaint, Jan 7, 2023

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