Image by Warner Bros.While we’re not quite living in “The Matrix” — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film’s legendary slowed-down “bullet time” sequence can, under the right circumstances, happen in real life.In an essay for The Conversation, psychology lecturer Steve Taylor of England’s Leeds Beckett University argues that these so-called “time expansion experiences,” or TEEs for short, could well be an “evolutionary adaptation” meant to help us survive during extreme experiences.During his research into the phenomenon, the English psychologist has spoken with dozens of people…
