In moments of emergency, super-concentration, or meditation, people report moments of “time expansion experiences,” or TEEs—when time feels to slow down. This theory helps explain why TEEs can occur in a variety of situations, and not exclusively in survival or fight-or-flight scenarios. In emergency situations, so this theory goes, our awareness becomes acute, so that we take in more perceptions than normal,” Taylor wrote. Instead, Taylor advocates for an idea that these events shift the human mind into an altered state of consciousness. In sport, intense altered states occur due to what I call ‘super-absorption,’” Taylor wrote.