This is refering to when you get knocked down and have wait an ungodly amount of time for your character to stand back up again. Is it possible for this to be sped up? It's very frustrating.

I genuinely thought i had died without realising a couple of times at first lol It does take aaaages which doesn't make sense, either you'd be staggered or knocked out cold, in which case you'd be dead by the time you came round.

sure you didn't get hit by a paralytic poison or something?

Nah, he's talking about when for example a Draugr Shouts you to the ground, in which case it goes to 3rd person and it takes two eternities before you actually get up again.