Standstill

Sign in with Facebook Other Sign in options. Arihote, a Kanienkehaka 'Mohawk', sometime war photographer, whose life is in a rut, witnesses a revenge killing in Montreal by Wedad, a Palestinian refugee.

Suddenly, he is overwhelmed by the past as he tries to piece together the present. The characters in Standstill have seen their attempts to move forward thwarted by cultural and political forces infringing on their lives as individuals. Finding new solace in each other may be the first step to freeing themselves from their inertia.

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Suddenly, he is overwhelmed by By studying what happens during such extreme events, researchers are revealing how and why the brain plays these temporal tricks — and in some circumstances, they suggest, all of us can experience time warping. Although Baker is perhaps the most dramatic case, a smattering of strikingly similar accounts can be found, intermittently, in medical literature.

There may be many more unreported cases, says Ovsiew. View image of Getty Images Credit: Such experiences almost always accompany problems like epilepsy or stroke.

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Baker was only 39 at the time of his experience, which seems to have been caused by a weakened blood vessel that began bleeding while he was carrying some heavy boxes. The result was a relatively large patch of neural damage in the right hemisphere. Some clues could come from studies that have attempted to pinpoint the regions responsible for our perception of time.

Of particular interest is an area of the visual cortex, called V5.

This region, which lies towards the back of the skull, has long been known to detect the motion of objects, but perhaps it has a more general role in measuring the passing of time. When Domenica Bueti and colleagues at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland zapped the area with a magnetic field to knock out its activity, her subjects found it tricky to do two things: One explanation for this double-failure is that our motion perception system has its own stopwatch, recording how fast things are moving across our vision — and when this is disrupted by brain injury, the world stands still.

We may all experience the normal smooth picture breaking down occasionally. VanRullen suspects this might arise because the brain somehow overlaps those sensory snapshots , rather than refreshing its picture anew. Some researchers claim that they are simply an artefact of memory, since the intense emotions lead us to lay down more details , so that we believe that the event lasted for longer only in hindsight. But the descriptions certainly sound close to those reported by the neurological patients, suggesting there may be some overlap.

It is even possible that some athletes have deliberately trained themselves to create a time warp on demand: