Thank you for articulating it, I’ve felt the exact same thing, in both run of the mill flow when coding / gaming / sparring, and the “other flow” you describe i

Thank you for articulating it, I’ve felt the exact same thing, in both run of the mill flow when coding / gaming / sparring, and the “other flow” you describe in real life threatening situations. For me too, normal flow time speeds up, and in the other - slows down. You feel detached from your actions - like if I do this it will maximize my chances of survival as I see them now, with no connection or fear that being on the wrong side of the odds might mean your death. You just calculate and do what needs to be done. I’ve noticed that I also tremble a little bit afterwards, which I attribute to the flood of adrenaline … maybe this is just flow but with adrenaline? (Adrenaline flow?) I was once driving through a bend of a sharp narrow cliff road, and some idiot truck driver was overtaking another truck, right as I entered the bend … with some quick reaction and placement of the car managed to pass both somehow, but I noticed that the other 3 people in the car all had very different reaction to this situation, - indifference, panic, crying, hyperventilation… I remember how hard it was to sympathize with them right after it happened, as while I was in this hyped analytical state I just felt it was weird the rest were not calm about it as well. Maybe it was because I was behind the wheel, but in similar situation as a passenger I would do the adrenaline flow as well, where I would coldly calculate if alerting / helping the driver would increase or decrease our chances of survival… so I don’t know, maybe we all have different intrinsic survival strategies? I’m just glad I’m not participating in a shooting war where I have to make those decisions all the time, I probably wouldn’t like what kind of person that would turn me into …