mossmoth
Member
- Mar 30, 2025
- 48
humans can force themselves to faint. they just CAN. squat, hyperventilate, stand up, hold your breath. do that in a body of water. with a noose. before a long fall. Why isn't that talked about more often?
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KirbyLover
Professional Procrastinator
- Apr 14, 2025
- 15
interesting, I guess it could work but I feel like it would take practice or it just might not work for some people. It's worth exploring though, I don't know to much about it but it sound like it has potential. Thanks for bringing it up.
locked*n*loaded
Archangel
- Apr 15, 2022
- 8,992
I've never been able to do that. Honestly, I think choking, whether by water or constriction, would bring you out of any fainting episode real quick.
Intoxicated
M
- Nov 16, 2023
- 879
Hyperventilating to the point sufficient for LOC may be unpleasant. The produced unconsciousness is too short-lasting to be helpful with drowning, but I guess it could mitigate discomfort from hanging or falling. Gas asphyxiation would be more effective.
Eudaimonic
I want to fade away.
- Aug 11, 2023
- 863
Re drowning: to my understanding, doing this prior to submersion will cause vasoconstriction - which, yes, will lead to cerebral hypoxia, but this will be reversed upon activation of the compensatory response, causing one to wake up. The problem here is that there is too much residual O2 despite the transient cerebral hypoxia due to vasoconstriction of cerebral blood vessels. This is why I plan to use N2O before submerging my head underwater.
Re hanging: I suspect that one might regain consciousness. This would seem highly dependent upon technique and physiology, that is, whether it would take 10 seconds for unconsciousness to occur (assuming one had not fainted prior) or 60 seconds. Furthermore, doing this might cause one to fall into the noose in the wrong way.
Re jumping: this could work if you are falling, say, 1000+ feet with no obstacles on the way down, but otherwise it is probably unwise, as it will compromise your ability to plan the jump and position yourself (if you are able to do so, as admittedly, this can be quite difficult due to SI kicking in).
Re hanging: I suspect that one might regain consciousness. This would seem highly dependent upon technique and physiology, that is, whether it would take 10 seconds for unconsciousness to occur (assuming one had not fainted prior) or 60 seconds. Furthermore, doing this might cause one to fall into the noose in the wrong way.
Re jumping: this could work if you are falling, say, 1000+ feet with no obstacles on the way down, but otherwise it is probably unwise, as it will compromise your ability to plan the jump and position yourself (if you are able to do so, as admittedly, this can be quite difficult due to SI kicking in).
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It is simple, but not easy. Many people have tried it but can not pull it off.
Subhumano
I dont have friends
- Apr 20, 2025
- 176
