Obviously time doesn't slow down in these cases, as many have already said. As with high speed cameras, perhaps our memories actually retain more information during times of danger / whatever, thus when we remember them, time being a "concrete" thing to our mind, we see the extra information and "feel" like time slowed down.
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Obviously time doesn't slow down in these cases, as many have already said. As with high speed cameras, perhaps our memories actually retain more information during times of danger / whatever, thus when we remember them, time being a "concrete" thing to our mind, we see the extra information and "feel" like time slowed down.