http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN__VTy6EOA

Who's done it? What method are you aware of? Do you have no idea what I'm talking about?


Me:

I was aware of method where one would
1. hyperventilate while squatting to 30 ~ 40 breaths depending on elevation
2. stand up very quickly
3. friend bearhugs from behind

Then youtube enlightened me to the fact that there are infinite possible combinations. I would like to hear more fun stories.

12/4/2007 2:17:28 AM

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"I was aware of method where one would 1. hyperventilate while squatting to 30 ~ 40 breaths depending on elevation 2. stand up very quickly 3. friend bearhugs from behind"

i've done this before--there's not really a lot to it

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12/4/2007 2:18:41 AM

no, no there is not

12/4/2007 2:19:11 AM

used to try and do this a lot...then would go outside and run through the electric fence with the dog collar on...yay for high school and dumb friends


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12/4/2007 2:20:11 AM

This would definitely not be the healthiest thing to do.

12/4/2007 2:20:13 AM

i used to do that all the time in middle school. it was honestly an amazing feeling. i'm pretty sure that can kill you though, so i stopped doing that.

12/4/2007 2:21:48 AM

as soon as you blackout you start breathing; you can't really injure yourself unless you fall on your head

12/4/2007 2:22:21 AM

Did you not watch the video?

12/4/2007 2:23:25 AM

nope, flash doesn't work for me now for whatever reason

12/4/2007 2:23:51 AM

^^^^ yes it can (though it probably won't), it can also cause health problems later in life, crazy headaches, even seizures. EVEN if you have no immediate effects whatsoever, and the more you do it the greater the chances.

BUT, not all versions are the same, and that's a little rant I have (regarding education about it).

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12/4/2007 2:24:06 AM

also, probably a decent brain cell reduction.

i actually started to notice myself getting lightheaded a lot more frequently, which is why i stopped doing it. if i was sitting on a couch for a while and got up, i'd get lightheaded. i don't think that's healthy.

12/4/2007 2:24:27 AM

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"it can also cause health problems later in life, crazy headaches, even seizures"

i find it hard to believe there's any reliable way to correlate that

12/4/2007 2:25:44 AM

^^ now I'm curious, which method did you use - the neck grab or a bearhug equivalent?

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12/4/2007 2:25:57 AM

that guy has some great videos

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12/4/2007 2:26:25 AM

i did exactly what he does in that video.

12/4/2007 2:26:50 AM

That guy is a fucking retard. Darwin awards hopeful.

12/4/2007 2:27:05 AM

^^ oh shit, that's not good

like really, I've heard that the experience is completely different for that method and it... well... kills many more brain cells

12/4/2007 2:28:09 AM

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"I've heard that the experience is completely different for that method and it"

in what way?

12/4/2007 2:29:28 AM

i did the "bearhug" thing a few times, except it was someone pushing me up against a wall (this was all the rage in middle school).

the bearhug was just passing out, nothing special except the novelty of passing out. the choke one was like an orgasm over the entire body. pretty ridiculous, actually.

12/4/2007 2:29:57 AM

haha, maybe i've been missing out--guess that where people get their choking fetishes from

12/4/2007 2:31:13 AM

yeah, i'm pretty sure this is the same idea as the whole hanging yourself when you jerk off phenomenon.

12/4/2007 2:32:00 AM

I can only speak for one method.

If you do the bearhug you have a vision as you're passed out most of the time. And you don't know where or who you are when you come back. That's why people do it IMO.

There was one guy I knew who was out for maybe 10 seconds twitching and junk, he came back and we literally spent the next hour listening to his story about what happened while he was out.

Those visions are trippy as hell.

12/4/2007 2:32:19 AM

lol, almost every time i'd do it i would wake up and feel like i was just thinking about something really important, but couldn't remember what it was.

i don't know why i ever thought this was a decent idea

12/4/2007 2:35:24 AM

There are plenty of worse things you can do.


...you could have started doing it on your own in your bed with a karate belt and wound up dead. That would have been worse.

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12/4/2007 2:37:19 AM

heh, i was thinking the same thing

12/4/2007 2:37:46 AM

i could've lived in the midwest and picked up meth. apparently that's what everyone does out there.

12/4/2007 2:39:00 AM

that's cause there ain't shit else to do

12/4/2007 2:41:07 AM

This just seems wrong to me. Bearhug people, bearhug.

12/4/2007 2:44:16 AM

i'm not sure what the bear hug even does--if i hyperventilate, i can hold my breath until i pass out either way

12/4/2007 2:46:18 AM

true, bearhug is not necessary to accomplish the point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76STwK3q61c

Apparently some people just put their thumb in their mouth and blow...



Also, why do these idiots do it without spotters? Oh yeah... to post the goddam thing on youtube.

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12/4/2007 2:48:31 AM