“I could be off. Time gets distorted when you’re caught up
in these things. At the time, everything went by in a blur and that’s why I
missed the plate number. I was so astonished at what happened I didn’t register
much else.”
“I know the
feeling. On the one hand you’re hyperaware and at the same time you blank out
the details.”
“Amen. I
couldn’t for the life of me go back and reconstruct the incident.”
“Don’t I
know,” she said. “A foot chase you swear took fifteen minutes turns out to be
half that. Sometimes it works the other way.”
In his book,
‘On Combat’, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, says this actually happens in high-stress
situations.
“A bizarre set
of perceptual distortions can occur in combat that alter the way the warrior
views the world and perceives reality,” he points out.
A study
based on officers officers who were involved in deadly encounters revealed that the
majority of them experienced perceptional distortions like the following:
-85%
Diminished Sound
-80% Tunnel
Vision
-74% Automatic
Pilot
-72% Heightened
Visual Clarity
-65% Slow
Motion Time
- 7% Temporary Paralysis
-51% Memory
Loss for Parts of the Event
-47% Memory
Loss for Some of Your Actions
-40%
Dissociation (Detachment)
-26% Intrusive
Distracting Thoughts
-16% Fast
Motion Time
If you want to
get yourself as quick as possible out of this jumble of distortions, Dave
Grossman has the solution for you: Tactical Breathing. It is a simple and straightforward technique to pull yourself together when in an extreme
situation and it’s comprised of 4 steps:
1)
Breathe in from your nose counting to four. Let
the air expand your belly.
2)
Hold your breath for the same amount of time.
3)
Let the air out from your mouth counting to
four.
4)
Hold empty for the same amount of time.
And remember to repeat the whole process
until you get your pulse down to comfortable levels.
Had Kinsey Millhone been
aware of this technique, she might have caught sight of the abovementioned plate
numbers.
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