Good Thoughts Benjammin,

Makes me think of Colonel Jeff Coopers "Color Codes of Awareness". Most Law Enforcement Officers and Military have heard of this Color Code.

White - No perception of danger (e.g. sleeping, relaxing at home).
Yellow - Relaxed awareness (e.g. on the job or in the field in a normal situation).
Orange - Alerted to an unknown danger/threat (e.g. strange noise outside your house/tent/car).
Red - Aggressive action or confrontation to address the threat (e.g. defensive or offensive actions against a threat).
Black - Metal Shutdown (e.g. Brain sensor overload, frozen in fear).

You try to live your life in the outside world in Yellow, prepared to escalate and de-escalate as needed.

If you are living in White (not situational aware), when confronted with a threat you flash directly to Black (frozen).

The plan is that you want to build-up from Yellow, through Orange to Red and avoid going into Black. Functional realistic, repeative training helps keep you out of Black.

Mike