Have you ever had the "whole life flashing before my eyes" experience (not necessarily in a near-death situation; there are other triggers), and if so did you have a sense of time slowing to a crawl, nearly stopping?
cf our shared interest in boyd, one of the things a relativistic subjective time perspective clarifies is the mystic sounding idea of "getting inside the opponent's decision cycle and collapsing it from within" etc (the ptsd paper suggests how/why)