If you're lucky, just a case of stubborn brain that won't swap to auto mode lol

After your comment, I found I could do both the fast and real speed from my peripheral, just by thinking myself into active focus without moving my head or eyes.

Maybe you're unconsciously stuck in the manual mode? Or it's a brain tumor.

I don't get the effect either :(

I think the effect is caused because if you look you see the context and in your head segment what is going on into different parts for your brains to analyze.

The gif is quite fast so i actually think its more that paying attention makes you take in mode detail. Make it make overal seem slowerx

When you look away you lose detail to know what part is on screen. You just see it flash/cycle between them.

The harder you start analysing it, like the autist that i am, the more the brain seems to catch up and is able to measure a more subjective time.

Try looking below at content under it. It doesn't appear to speed up for me if I look to þe side, but it does if if it's in my upper periphery.

Probably cause you're reading the text

Not sure where you got the idea that I was complaining from. This post was inspired entirely by me seeing this gif somewhere and thinking "haha super f, like the default fullscreen keybind in i3 and Sway"

thanks!