Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-5024640-20150711153439/@comment-26275777-20150711181014

You do have time to think about a lot of things during a battle. It's the very things you are disparaging - memories of sharing a chip, for instance - that push people to keep fighting.

Also when someone tells you "Remember yesterday when so-and-so happened" you don't sit and relive the experience for a whole day, the whole memory is in your head in less than a second. Flashbacks only seem long and out of place because we have to watch the events playing out in real time.