🧠 Delayed Body Movements Under Cannabis Influence with Intact Sensory Function – A Pseudo-Time Distortion Experience

1. Background: Effects of Cannabis on the Endocannabinoid System

• THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main active ingredient, binds to CB1 receptors in the central nervous system.

• Areas particularly affected include:

  • Basal ganglia (motor control)

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  • Cerebellum (motor coordination)

  • Thalamus (filtering of sensory stimuli)

  • Hippocampus (memory and time processing)

2. Subjective Experience: "Time Distortion"

Effect:

Actions feel "slower" even though they occur objectively at normal speed or with minimal delay.

Cause:

• Distortion of internal time perception due to altered neuronal firing patterns in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

• This creates a disconnect between action execution and internal expectation, causing simple movements such as walking, grasping, or speaking to feel "clumsy" or "stretched out in time."

3. Sensory function remains intact –

Why?

• Sensory processing (seeing, hearing, touching) is not directly suppressed, but rather:

  • interpreted more slowly

  • weighted differently emotionally

• The brain receives the stimuli correctly, but the integration into a coherent body image and movement pattern is delayed.

• Result: You perceive that you are moving, but your feeling says: "I am moving in slow motion."

4. Motor skills vs. cognition

5. Neurophysiological model (simplified)

[Sensory input] --> [Thalamus] --> [Sensory cortex]
↓
[THC effect] → Slower transmission
↓

[Motor control by basal ganglia + cerebellum] ↓ [Mismatch with "sense of time" from hippocampus]

This creates the impression of being "disconnected" from one's own body, even though one can still control it – almost like a simulated time dilation.

🌀 Comparison with real time dilation (relativity)

• In true relativistic time dilation, time objectively passes more slowly relative to an external observer.

• With the cannabis experience, it's the opposite: The external world seems to slow down, even though it doesn't – it's a subjective distortion of time perception in the brain.

🧪 Conclusion:

The impression of delayed body reactions under cannabis influence arises from a decoupling of motor execution and temporal self-awareness. Sensory information remains largely intact, but its integration into the overall motor-cognitive process is disrupted. The result feels like an "internal time dilation," even though objectively only minimal reaction delays occur.

If you'd like, I can also create this as an infographic or implement it for a technical simulation – e.g., as a "subjective time field engine."

Very good question – This refers to an interesting subjective perception under the influence of cannabis, which is often described as a "slowing down of time" and "delayed perception of movement," without any underlying changes in basic sensory or cognitive function.The cognitive function in question appears to be directly impaired. This phenomenon can be well explained from a neurophysiological and psychological perspective: