Lastly, the time warp syndrome is well known reaction to stress. There is some work being done in this area in of all places (of course) sports. USA softball team did some neat stuff in this area Your mind can process information much faster than it normally does. When in a crisis, it kicks it up a notch but because your conscious is not use to that level of processing, it appears that everything slows down. Pretty neat when you think about it---if you could move ten times faster than everyone else, they would appear in slow motion to a detached observer---In the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, they make it appear that the world closes in--now I have never been in anything like that, but my experience and what I trained my self to, is that the world opens up and I see and process a much broader perspective---