Shakari--

That eyeball to lion experience is one of those "deer in the headlights" things where we know we just miissed seeing our maker by mere molecules .

How about crawling up a steep embankment and suddenly facing a large rattlesnake head within 6 inches of your face? Same reaction. Froze then walked on air back about 8 feet!
Oh yes, and my buddies though it was hilarious and were rolling on the floor laughing their ass*s off as they had killed the snake previously and sent me up that narrow trail to look at some deer rubs and get surprised by their new plaything.It worked!

Yowsers! My only consolation was that I didn't loose control of any bodily functions with that encounter!!