Concerns about CTB and Time Dilation

[bluem00n]

Everyone's familiar with the idea that time appears to slow down during say, a car accident / how events unfold in slow motion, or how an entire lifetime flashes by - how the subjective perception of time can change.

About three months ago I was researching Near Death Experiences (NDE), and came across a disconcerting example of time dilation (it was on either Quora or reddit, I don't remember now) ...

It was a very lengthy and detailed description of an NDE, posted by a guy who'd been electrocuted during his work as a linesman. He said that although the length of time he had current flowing through him was just 3 seconds or so, his subjective experience of the agony he felt was that it lasted more like 3 hours. Worse still, when the hospital placed him in an induced coma for a week, his subjective experience when regaining consciousness was that he had been enduring excruciating pain from severe internal burns for many many years.

Below is a similar instance I came across while trying to locate that original thread ...​

For me, this raises a bothersome issue with CTB. In the case of Partial Hanging, loss of consciousness typically occurs within 5-20 seconds, and death in 20-30 minutes. But it seems to me that the dying brain could actually experience that 20-30 minutes as an immensely long period of time, which I find scary to contemplate.

The only 'experiences' of unconsciousness I have is from surgery to remove my appendix, and a time I was knocked out when assaulted on the street, both being of total oblivion. But with hanging it might be an NDE, else some kind of 'dream' state (probably a very unpleasant one given breathing is cut off).

I find the possibility of a subjectively lengthy experience timewise unnerving ... does anyone here have any information about what actually happens ...?​

 

[MrShino]

I think time is always experienced subjectively. When you are having fun, f.ex, the time passing may be barely noticable. When you are bored, f.ex., time can seem to go very slow. Time dilation is in that manner always occuring in some way. Dreams are often the same. That you will experience a prolonged sense of time suffering in said case, seems to me highly unlikely though.