CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Perception of Slow Motion

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When you succumb to the effects of the adrenal chemical dump, the brain often puts things into slow motion. Add this into the other effects and you can begin to understand how things get out of hand and don’t exactly explain why you took the actions you did. In reality, police and other professionals are taught to not make a statement or create a report for something like twenty-four to seventy-two hours after. The sad part is that most often you as the defender won’t get that time to get past the after effects, contemplate the situation and circumstances to remember correctly the story of what happened and why you did what you did. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Freeze

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Whether sparring, competing, fighting, or in self-defense; Rory Miller wrote, “Personality at the level you have played, the next level may be a complete surprise.” What that equates to is the freeze. The freeze is a natural survival instinct because not moving can result in some predator animal bypassing you vs. eating you. When you encounter something your human mind has never experienced, the monkey has not experienced and the lizard cannot readily retrieve from survival instincts or the procedurally trained zombie memory sub-routine it almost always means you simply, “Freeze.” You have to break the freeze and training, practice and experience are the only way to learn that trick except for a very strong application of will power. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Tachypsychia (time slows)

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This is when time doesn’t speed up but slows down. It makes for the movie like slow-mo (motion) effect. It also speaks to gaps in time where your speed is such you are skipping ahead by two or three second intervals leaving gaps in memory and in the story you tell those first responders. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Distorted Memory/perceptions

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You won’t remember important events in the situation when the dump hits. Some things you will never remember and sometimes bits and pieces will return once the adrenaline wears off. It should be remembered that even in the best of cases memories are subjective to experiences, perceptions and beliefs along with a plethora of other stimuli. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Loss of Fine Motor Skills

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You can run faster, one of those animal like survival instincts when you lived on the open plains running from Lions and Tigers and Bears but you can forget finger dexterity, i.e., you won’t be shuffling cards or manipulating with your fingers the attackers extremities, etc. unless you have programmed your procedural memory and trained the lizard to pull from there making the actions intinct like or what some call triggering zombie sub-routines to get-r-done. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Loss of Extremity Feeling

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When fear and adrenaline are released our blood tends to gravitate toward our centers as natures survival event where in those days of Lions and Tigers and Bears you curl into a ball to protect your organs and hold on to as much blood as possible and that means less bleeding when the outer parts receive damage. When this happens you lose feelings in finger, toes and other extremities. 

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CHEMICAL COCKTAIL; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Weakened legs/arms

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Unless you train for it when the event occurs and the adrenal dump hits, you can feel weakness in legs and arms. Often seen by witnesses as shaking legs and arms as one might see as a result of fear. 

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