The experience described in the article is, imho, quite common. The spontaneous positive ones are of the type you experience in sports, when you are in "the zon

The experience described in the article is, imho, quite common. The spontaneous positive ones are of the type you experience in sports, when you are in "the zone". Priceless experience. And the negative ones occur in times of danger - you want to forget these, but that's nearly impossible. Meditation gets you there as well, and with some side-effects, I'm told drugs do too. I read a hilarious account by PJ O'Rourke of how still time stood during an ill-advised drugs and dynamite experiment with some of his buddies.