Adrenaline is Adrenaline

[PeregrineFalcon 0]

Has anyone else had a "skydiving feeling" after a non-skydiving event? An event that produced adrenaline and it felt the same as if you had a day of skydiving? If so, I'd like to hear about it.

Today, I gave a kid the Heimlich Maneuver, and when it was all over and I sat down to relax, I noticed that I had the same physical feeling as I do after skydiving. I even had an adrenaline crash a few hours later.

[jamiem 1]

I had the same feeling after I saved a kid from drowning. Didn't have to perform CPR or anything but after the rescue I had tons of adrenaline. Loved the feeling, after all that's why I'm a skydiver!

[PeregrineFalcon 0]

Yeah, I'm kind of embarrassed to say this, but I loved the feeling too.

[bfilarsky 0]

Sure

I get the same feeling after

An aerobatic flight
Jumping a motorcycle
Taking my car a bit too fast around a turn
Going down a steep chute on my snowboard

Can't think of anything else specific off the top of my head - but anytime I push the limits of my own skills - and nail it, its the BEST feeling in the world. I am honest to god smiling right now just thinking about it!

[shropshire 0]

Sure, not as impressive as yours but :-

Having a massive canopy collapse on my paraglider

People pulling out on me in their cars when I'm on my invisible motorcycle

Taking (for me) a big climbing fall - if pro pings out the adrenaline turns brown!!

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[mrwrong 0]

That’s why I gave up riding motorcycles.
I used to have a Suzuki 750 that I tortured the hell out of.

Was in a couple of crashes and lost my driving license due to speeding tickets a couple of times.
In the end I realized that my son would have to grow up without his dad if I didn't gave up that stupid shit...
So I started skydiving instead, I mean which is more dangerous? 140mph 3300 ft above the ground or 140mph 3 ft above the ground?

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[PeteW 0]

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Having a massive canopy collapse on my paraglider

Amen to that one. I had my first collapse this year followed by two others on the same flight.

[shropshire 0]

Time to land and have a

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[kbordson 8]

Obstetrics.


Where in a second. And depending on what next happens you might have a or a .

And.... just when you get the babe squared away, the dad passes out.

[dynamicedge 0]

I get the same feeling when I do a crossword puzzel with a pen. No margine for error! But I usually get my kicks from driving rather fast in my car. I know it's stupid but i just love the feeling i get when i see that needle keep climbing and climbing and seeing objects wooshing by me at 260+kph

[shropshire 0]

aye, Crossword puzzles can be really hard..... when you can't spell

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Broke 0]

Autocross gets me going. It is fun it is challenging, and it gets you going.

Rock climbing. Hiking when the trail starts to resemble a 5.2.

When I push myself hard riding my bike.

After I avoid a collision by an evasive manuver.

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[Andy_Copland 0]

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if pro pings out the adrenaline turns brown!!

Brilliant

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People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

[cocheese 0]

I know a lot of skydivers that claim they get a similar feeling from flying r/c aircraft.

[gravitysurfer 0]

1. Getting arrested.

2. Birth of my son.

3. My avatar (molecular structure of adrenaline)

aloha.

[pirana 0]

Several brushes with death have produced the rush, and a couple of the worst (best?) have provided that surrealistic slow motion life-before-the-eyes feeling.

Racing used to do it. Same kind of rush, travelling fast in very close proximity. Lacking the surreal qualities though; and there were too many idiots willing to hurt you in order to win. Killed the fun factor big time.

Agree with the lifesaving thing too. Doing that, and even trying to and having failed, is pretty surreal. It's wierd being around a death. (An unexpected one, such as an accident - not the laying in bed and dying for several days type). Very sad vibes, but the focus is incredible. The first time I thought I was about to see a dead person my whole body started trembling and I could hardly talk.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[poe62 0]

Back in my college days working retail, a guy jumped over the counter and started beating the crap out of my buddy (it had to do with his sister or something). I tried to pull the guy off my friend, but he knocked me away. After that, I was jello and shaky from the adrenaline rush.

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Irgity Dirgity

[PeregrineFalcon 0]

Wow, that story reminded me of a time I was at a Denny's late at night years ago. We heard a crash, and I went over to see what was up. A guy knocked a dude on the head with something, went to his girlfriend, backhanded her and took her purse. I grabbed a glass and was going to throw it at him and saw that that "something" in his hand was a gun. I obviously froze and didn't do a damn thing as he ran out the door. The boyfriend, bleeding from the head, RAN AFTER THE DICK!! Later he said he did it because he thought it was a phony gun.

Anyway, at that point, I had not jumped out of a plane yet and this incident was so long ago that I don't remember the physical feeling afterward. This was the first time since recognizing that "skydiving feeling" that I've felt it in a non-skydiving capacity.