Its not the feeling of falling from altitude but of brutally disconnecting from reality: youre litteraly falling into slumber. Because your brain turns off too fast to sleep you *feel* the change and this is why you jump: your body keeps you balanced by any means Personnal theory
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Its a good theory, but i read somewhere it has to do with the heart slowing down, the brain thinks its dying so gives a boost to make sure it doesnt stop.
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Wow Id like to know more about it its so interesting
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I thought I was the only one

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You may have been dropped as a baby?
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you don't know what I did in my past life
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Doesn't need to be accurate to be terrifying.
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it feels the same as swinging too high as a child
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There was never such a thing LOL
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i used to cry because i was swinging too high and then i would try to swing even higher
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How do you know this is how it feels like if you never felt it?
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Good point.
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You never been on a roller coaster?
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Never, but I've had the nightmare of fallung from a height and the feeling associated with it.
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Well if you want the super sciencey answer your brain actually doesn't know the difference between you imagining you doing something and you actually doing it
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Scientists say that as WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF MONKEYS,we have the psychological effect of falling from heights AS MONKEYS SLEEP OFTEN ON TREES!!!
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