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Has anyone ever experienced time dilation where the world appears to be running slowly in relation to your own thinking and actions?

Ive found this can occur in sports or life threatening situations for example. If so do you have any explanation for the experience?

Has anyone ever experienced time dilation where the world appears to be running slowly in relation to your own thinking and actions? Ive found this can occur in sports or life threatening situations for example. If so do you have any explanation for the experience?

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I think it would be easy to interpret that to mean to start noticing every detail around you, and let's face facts, this isn't the movies and you're not gonna count the spots on a ladybug while a guy is trying to punch you in the face. But yeah, general awareness and focus is the main thing. If you're paying attention, you're able to anticipate. I think a lot of what makes it seem slower has to do with waiting for the thing you anticipated to happen. If you're oblivious, things just keep happening so fast around you out of nowhere.

Thats not been my experiences which were more like you counting spots analogy. It is a recognized phenomenon and there have been scientific studies carried out.