>>>"I couldn't tell you if the fight lasted three seconds or three minutes," Hirsch said.<<<

>>>"I can say it sure looked smaller the next morning than it did during the fight," said Hirsch.<<<

It's interesting how the brain, which normally processes an incredible amount of data about our immediate environment and periphery, can suddenly snap into focus during an emergency. I'm sure that the awareness of time and objects in his peripheral vision were simply blotted out by his brain as it processed solely the information required for survival. Time itself is a perception based phenomena that's relative to our awareness of the environment (movement, change, etc.). I'm sure when folks talk about how events occur in slow motion in an emergency, it's because the brain is only processing information related to the event itself, and blots out other information that provides a baseline reference to "normal" time.