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Maybe it's because I want to skydive or hang-glide, but every time I'm standing somewhere really high up, like on a balcony or a clifftop, I get this weird impulse to just jump. It's not even something suicidal... just wanna fly.
| Yeah! I wanna be like a bird! | 523 | |
| Yes--I just wanna end it all/see what the other side's like. | 230 | |
| Sometimes... it's kinda weird, though. | 823 | |
| Um, not really. | 68 | |
| Are you crazy? That's ridiculous. | 58 |
I sometimes want to just drive into the other lane in the highway too. I would really never do it... but knowing I could just feels awesome.
Yes, but the fear of dying has always stopped me from making an attempt.
I'd love to as well. It's a shame doing so comes with the ever so slight handicap of probable death. :(
Actually It unnerves me because of how easy I could kill myself.. 3 steps and I would be dead.
OMG, that happens to me too! I feel the urge to jump and at the same time, wonder what it's like to feel my skull shattering into pieces. Of course I won't do it but having the urge is scary enough.
This one time I stood at the top of the stairs for about haf an hour considering it!
This has actually been an observation of psychology for decades. A lot of people get this urge. Some evolutionary psychologists believe it's a relic passed down from our bird-ish ancestors.
if i am very high up i feel the urge to go right up to edge but im scared i will do it and jump off .. i dont want to pay the price for seeing what it feels like
I have no death wish, but I am interested what life after death is like, if there is anything at all. Before I ever contemplate trying to experience such a thing, I want to live my life a bit.
I get this all the time! The school I go to has a building with a 5 story high atrium. Every time I look over the balcony I always wonder what it'd be like to jump over. Heh, I sorta wish there was a non-fatal/non-crippling way of doing so.
I totally agree mate! i wonna sky drive, bungie jump, hang glide all that shit!
NORMAL! XD
This is a very normal urge that people sometimes get when standing over an edge of something. I'm not sure why this occurs though. I was hiking with some friends one time and we came to the open edge of a cliff to rest. I walked to the edge to see how high up we were and I got this VERY strong urge to throw myself off the edge. I stood motionless for a while, contemplating this. One of my friends had to pull me away.
Boys and girls, you don't know it, but the question you are playing with is a philosophical one that has been addressed by the greatest thinkers in the world. Essentially you're trying to re-invent the wheel. If you ever get serious about ideas, put on your thinking cap and jump into BEING AND NOTHINGNESS by Jean-Paul Sartre. You'll find the first chapter is difficult. Skip that, and go to the second. You'll have quite a ride.
Lets just say,I was just on a trip to the Grand Canyon and my friend had to keep me from jumping the whole time. Not suicide,I just wanted to do it so badly!
My advice?study base jumping like me.
I think they should reconstruct a, obviously fake but large enough, cliff and have people (while connected to a safety harness) stand on the top of them while having the knowledge that they are able to jump off and be safe. Then we could see what happens Lol.
For sure... almost every time I'm high up I don't want to die or fly, I just want to free fall or something/
Yeah I've felt the urge to jump off bridges many times. Just knowing that all this pain and suffering could be over in life. Then I think, what would happen to me on the other side if I did that?It's not that I'm not happy necessarily, it's just that sometimes knowing that you could choose how you die can give you a sense of power and freewill. Ok, I know that sounds goth or emo but that's just me. Please repond. Thanks
Yup. Every time I'm up high the thought is always in the back of my mind. Don't want to die or anything, it's just a thought.
Yes, but only because it looks so fun!!! Haha. I've always wanted to like fall forever like in movies :P
Every time I walk up, down, or past a flight of stairs I wanna throw myself down them.
Once.I did in fact jump off a bridge.A bunch of niggaz were chasing me.Yelling at me.For no particular reason.Scaring the shit out of me.I was just walking over the edge of a wall,I felt like they were coming for me,so I had to jump even if It was slightly too high for me.So I busted my heel.What an unbearable pain.I just thought:This one is gonna keep me from getting out of my house for a long time.I'm still grumpy about it.Tho.
But I couldn't really understand why I was laughing out loud and howling at the moon even if I was in so much pain I could barely walk.
So I crawled my way home.Walking on four legs.
My mum went like:What the fuck happened?
Me:I'm still not sure yet.
Mum:Are you in pain?Do you want me to call the doctor?
Me:LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
Mum:Jeee!
Me:I'm sorry.I just need to think this shit over.
Mum:You get out of the house one time after only god know how much time and you come back crawling on four legs like a dog.
Me:So what?
Mum:Nothing.I was just saying.
Me:Whatever.Could you please drag me to my room?I can't walk.Just grab my foot and drag me.No!Not that foot you OUCH!(My brain was like short circuiting every time I cursed)
I don't feel like jumping, I just feel like I'm about to lean to far over the edge and fall
I don't want to die though, that would suck Satan's testicles. I wanna survive unhurt, then go on with my life.
i want to just end it all. but you have some serious thrill issues. just kidding i love my life.
Wow, yeah, almost all the time. Not really to die, just to feel the wind an the rush. Maybe I should go skydiving? I'm glad I'm not alone with this. Thank the gods-of-the-fish that this website exists.
you know that feeling you get that you want to jump when your up high...
I don't have it
Yeah, all the time. I stand at the top of high up places and I really feel the urge to jump, not because I hate my life or anything, just to see what it feels like.
It's normal. I think everyone thinks this, even though they would never do it.
I get the urge to jump, but I'm afraid of heights. Maybe I want to jump to get back down? It's the lemming in me...
I have this same urge. Sometimes I feel like I can feel wings, in a phantom-limb kind of way. The same way as I feel where my arm is. Some part of my brain seems to believe I can fly.
I get this so much! I would love that chance to be like a bird, adrenaline coercing through my veins, then >splat< it's all over before I can notice. And I'm in paradise!
yea me two its a feelin that i wanna just glide down to the ground safely.
I do! Especially in my dreams! I feel like i'll fall off a ledge if i'm too close to the edge like something is pulling me! I wish i could fly it's been my dream since i was 5! it's so amazing
As someone else mentioned its said that we retain an ancient part of the bird brain that we are descended from and the fact that we all seem to want to do this probably bears this out.I suggest you try hang gliding.You get to run off the top of a very high place and it (usually)doesnt hurt.