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[Freethinker]

Your situation forced more of your brain to focus on that specific issue. Thus it was not so much a change in time perception, as it is focused attention on an individual event.

Compare it to viewing a scene from two different camers. One wide angle, one narrow angle. Take an event that has something move across a limited viewing angle across the screen. The wide angle shot will provide less detail for the same movement than the narrow angle. In one the, say 2 degrees of arc of, movement represents 10% of the view. While the other, the same 2 degrees is 50% of the view. Both capture the same event in the same time frame. One just will provide greater detail and review of it will show much greater detail.