A closer look
We all love action movies where the protagonist dodges bullets in glorious slow motion, but biology executes this trick through pure terror. Your brain doesn't actually process time slower during a near-death experience. Instead, the threat-detecting amygdala panics and captures terrifyingly high-resolution memories, absorbing details you usually ignore. When you try to remember the event later, the sheer volume of data forces your consciousness to play it back at half-speed, basically turning your trauma into a cinematic replay.
