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God, how awful for you! 
So glad you’re allright!
I’ve had many falls during my life, inc some from horses. Some of my falls seemed to take forfuckingever, with the Earth slowly ‘coming up’ to say “HI!” Others were just BAM! I was on the ground.
The latter best describes the fall I took which wrecked my glasses, non-displacedly broke my wrist, bruised my ribs, and left me with a small whistling in my ears.
The former best describes the fall I took when “my” Ali decided he was not going to take the minuscule fence before us, and made the shortest, sharpest possible turn to the left while I maintained our initial trajectory. I experienced that slow floating that others describe as happening in their dreams. That one was no big deal. I just landed on my bum. I climbed right back on, gave him a good smack, picked up a fast canter, aimed him at it again with success, then hopped off and walked him to cool him out. Unhurt but livid. 
IIRC, adrenaline causes the apparent slowing of time during falls.
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I recall reading somewhere that subjective time is dependent on the amount of information being processed. When we are bored, time “crawls” because so little is being analyzed, while in emergency situations our brains go into hyperdrive assessing massive amounts of info to figure a way to deal with it, so we experience time as slowing. Sort of a constant “seconds per byte” situation. With more info incoming, we experience more “life” per second than when we are sitting watching paint dry. Not sure it’s coming across right, it makes sense in my head!
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That does make sense, and it makes me wonder, Merry Merely, if the falls that went by in an instant for you did so because they happened too fast for you to even have a chance to perceive yourself as falling.
Godd to gather you’re more or less okay after several falls! It’s the reason I’ve never been on a horse. Riding doesn’t seem like enough of a joy or thrill to me to take that chance. (And the older I get, the less I want to be anywhere near any dangerous animal-- except I guess my car!)
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There’s an old Spanish saying, “He who would venture nothing must not mount a horse,” and it’s esp true when the horse in question is a mad Arabian genius who gets spooky when bored, like “my” Ali was.
Broke my wrist during the walk home from the nearby gas station, a walk I’d taken countless times, after hitting a V slightly uplifted section of sidewalk the wrong way. It was the same day that awful Paris Bataclan concert terrorist attack happened.
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That must be a huge disappointment.
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I had read that only 1 original member of the Village People remains.
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StarTrek transporters, here we come! 
(There will be way too many folks who will think this is true, though.)
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Actual footage
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A spaceship from another star.
They ask me where all the people are.
What do I tell them?
I tell them I’m the only one.
There was a war, so I must have won.
Please take me with you.
— Porcupine Tree, A Smart Kid
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Thank goodness it’s not Smellivision.
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It is rather flaccid now, I imagine the aroma is ripening.
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Scary AF
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