Nearly all of us have had the experience where we face a moment of emergency and it is as though time slows down, and you experience the moments in slow motion. I have had this experience a few times in my life. During these moments everything is crystal clear, and you can see every detail.
These are moments of pure raw fundamental reality. In an emergency the self takes a back seat and instinct takes it's place. The self isn't in the way to hinder your decisions. You don't have to think about what is happening you just know it. You just experience it in its fullness.
I had such a moment yesterday. I had just made a very hot cup of coffee (my favorite thing). I sat down comfortably at my desk, I took a lovely sip of coffee and then I sat the cup down on my desk and let go of it. I forgot that I had a pot holder on my desk and I must have sat it down on the edge of that pot holder on accident, so the cup didn't sit flat. Once I let go the cup tipped over. In slow motion I watched the coffee come out, I could see every ripple on the water and the light that was highlighting the ripples. I could see the water was shaped in a v shape as it was falling. It was in slow motion. I didn't have to think about what was happening, I simply understood it.
It may not have been an emergency moment if the cup hadn't been sitting right above my lap. That was no fun........ I am pretty sure I will NEVER ever make that mistake again, Lol.
But, I use every moment that I live as an opportunity to see things deeper. For me after I tended to being burned and all, it was about the moment of seeing fundamental nature in it's purest form without anything in the way. This is what monks meditate for years to accomplish. Seeing things as they are, not as we imagine them to be, just pure unfiltered awareness.