Why are you alive?

[IronWing]

When I was a teen, traveling at a spritely pace, I topped a hill to find a four way stop with a gravel truck pulling out from the right. The truck driver stopped, thus saving my scrawny ass from mating with his truck.

 

[igor_kavinski]

People on the packed chairlift were cheering when I stood up. (and was still alive lol... I'm sure it looked like I was riding the rest of the way down in a rescue sled!)

I've said this before: You NEED to write a book about your life adventures.

Book gets published, hits the top seller lists and then you get a movie deal.

Your family lives happily ever after!

 

[Muse]

TBH, not their fault. Most of us are from a time when the world's future didn't seem so bleak. Everyone was hopeful. If they had known what the world would become, they would have spared us our births.

I see lots of tots around. Gotta wonder what their parents think. The lookout is kinda grim. And this is a liberal, educated university town. It's not like they don't know.

 

[WelshBloke]

No incidents of the kind where you were with your girl in HER house and her parents returned and you had to jump out from her bedroom window?

Ha! I've had to do that!
And then put my trousers on in the bushes and run down the road!

 

[igor_kavinski]

It's not like they don't know.

Maybe they just believe in miracles

 

[igor_kavinski]

Ha! I've had to do that!
And then put my trousers on in the bushes and run down the road!

The cold must have some effect on you lot there. My female married friend once looked out the window there and saw a couple shagging under the tree, out in the open!

 

[WelshBloke]

Ooh! I remember taking some acid in the nineties and going for a walk, it was a nice warm evening.
I remember it kicking in and I'd taken a lot. Too much really.
There were great visuals, flashing lights and weird sounds.

It was at that point that a mate pulled me off the railway track as the late night freight train thundered past!

 

[WelshBloke]

The cold must have some effect on you lot there. My female married friend once looked out the window there and saw a couple shagging under the tree, out in the open!

I've had sex up an oak tree in Windsor great park! Didn't fall out or anything!

 

[Muse]

Maybe they just believe in miracles

Miracle is one of those words whose meaning isn't exactly clear. Different people, different contexts, it can be very different things. I'm not criticizing your use of it. Sometimes people saying something would be a miracle is meant to say it's extremely unlikely, that's a common usage.

There's a very different perspective:

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein

Miracle is a word that comes up when something transpires that one would not expect, but could obviously happen because it did.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Miracle is a word that comes up when something transpires that one would not expect, but could obviously happen because it did.

Yup. It's a miracle we are still alive despite humanity's best efforts to crap the hell out of our planet.

In the future, the rich will go underground or on space stations when the atmosphere becomes too toxic. I'll be dead though

 

[Ajay]

Hmm, when I was ~4 yo, I climbed up the counter and was able to reach the medicine cabinet. My biological father suffered from schizophrenia and was on haloperidol. I ate the pills and went into a coma. A young doctor watched stayed awake over 24 hours in the hospital to constantly monitor my vitals. Obviously, I survived, but it was touch and go for a while.

I fell through the ice at a local pond (~10 yo). My friends managed to get off the ice more quickly than me when we heard the cracking sounds - I was further out. I hardly knew what happened. Talking to them, while wet and freezing cold on the shore - they said I disappeared below the ice, and after a couple of seconds 'flew out of the water and landed closer to shore' and then walked off. They were looking at me slacked jawed, eyes wide open. If there are miracles - that was one.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Talking to them, while wet and freezing cold on the shore - they said I disappeared below the ice, and after a couple of seconds 'flew out of the water and landed closer to shore' and then walked off. They were looking at me slacked jawed, eyes wide open. If there are miracles - that was one.

You must be real life Bruce Willis from the movie Unbreakable!

It could have been adrenaline that made you black out and initiated a primal survival mechanism, giving you super human strength for a split second. You should try lifting weights and see how far you can go.

 

[skyking]

When I was a teen, traveling at a spritely pace, I topped a hill to find a four way stop with a gravel truck pulling out from the right. The truck driver stopped, thus saving my scrawny ass from mating with his truck.

I did that spritely pace thing a few times as a teen. One time it was a hard 90 corner on a road I was not familiar with, and a gravel road continuing in my direction of travel but not really the same plane. I caught some Dukes of Hazard air right Thar.

 

[bobeedee]

Slipped on mud crossing railroad tracks next to a line of boxcars. Got up, started back across the tracks and a Budliner going 60mph blew past the line of boxcars, missing me by about 5 feet.

 

[Captante]

Slipped on mud crossing railroad tracks next to a line of boxcars. Got up, started back across the tracks and a Budliner going 60mph blew past the line of boxcars, missing me by about 5 feet.

Now THAT is one impressive lurker! *(or bot-hijacked idle account)

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I once took ~50 Ambien pills and slept for two days straight and then stayed awake for three days straight. I never intended to do this. I took one pill while drunk, fell asleep and while under the effects of Ambien emptied the bottle.

 

[snoopy7548]

I once took ~50 Ambien pills and slept for two days straight and then stayed awake for three days straight. I never intended to do this. I took one pill while drunk, fell asleep and while under the effects of Ambien emptied the bottle.

Did you have any interesting dreams?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

After the first pill, yes. After the bottle, no. I woke up in the hospital not knowing what had happened. I hate needles and I had seven IV catheters and two hard needles in my forearms. Apparently spent a night in the ER, then another in ICU, and a day and a half in a private room before carting my questionable butt off to the mental ward. It took a solid year to get the missing memory back. I now remember taking the bottle. Life at the time wasn't going well. I just had enough of everything. I left the mental health facility 3.5 days later in a huge state of mania. I have Asperger Syndrome and ADHD and they diagnosed me with severe depression, which later got re-diagnosed as Bipolar Depression with Type 1 Mania. My cycles (depression-->euthymia-->mania and repeat) are nearly 18 months long. I about to come about of euthymia again, which explains all the purchases I did this week. But even the depression was so bad this time last year I was thinking about offing myself on an hourly basis. Hourly. Lithium and another drug did wonders but I had to stop them as the side effects made me feel and act like an 80 year old fart. Taking daily. Thoughts only a couple of times a week, which is great all things considered.

 

[Captante]

I once took ~50 Ambien pills and slept for two days straight and then stayed awake for three days straight. I never intended to do this. I took one pill while drunk, fell asleep and while under the effects of Ambien emptied the bottle.

Seriously I'm impressed you pulled through. Scary stuff that Ambien... I won't take it.

 

[Mai72]

Rihanna is popular in Hell: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/guy-says-had-heart-attack-215800324.html

The Buddhist hells are interesting.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Seriously I'm impressed you pulled through. Scary stuff that Ambien... I won't take it.

I think the event reset my brain. I left the hospital in a state of mania, according to the health professionals. Lasted four months. It was like having a gray cloud lifted from my brain that had been there my entire life. Unfortunately, that faded four months later and the gray clouds turned black. Personally I am flirting with repeating the event to see if my brain once again resets itself. I only consider this because I've asked medical doctors, psychologists and therapists about what could have caused this cloud-clearing event. Was it 48 hours of sleep? Was it a chemical interaction from the Ambien. Not only do they seem to not know, but they don't even want to acknowledge my question. In fact, not getting answers seems to be the biggest insult to my from the health community. I'm also consider TMS since it isn't supposed to effect short term memory (EST does), or even Ketamine treatment as it has shown to do wonders for those experiencing severe depression.

All I know is that a) the same GP prescribed more Ambien upon my request, and b) the same pharmacy filled the order. Hmm, I think they are in collusion to kill me.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Why are you alive? ​

I think therefore I am.

I had a 4 door mid to late 60s Dodge Dart pull out in front of me while on my "crotch rocket" going about 45mph/72kmh. Supermanned, hit on my head and hands flipped back to my feet and ran out of it.

I'm 15, my friend 16 stole his mom's car. He told us she let him use it. 4 guys 2 girls in a Chrysler K car. Gets drunk and high and picks us up from the football game. I am making out with one of the girls when I hear Keith don't! We get t-boned at the intersection where he ran the red light. I was ejected from the vehicle. Only a moderate head injury and road rash to show for it. 2 of the other kids got off worse.

Guys pull out in front of us from a blind driveway on Tropical Trail. My bro is bent, and as soon as he gets a chance pull along side them to start some shit. Passenger fire a handgun close enough to my bro's head that he has powder burns. Bullet passes through the car, we end up in the ditch on the side of U.S.1.

I'm 10, 2 hunting dogs jump the 5ft chain link fence and are roaming the street. I hear serious shit going down outside. Dogs are trying to get our cat Malibu. I throw cat on roof and try to make the dogs go home. Dogs get aggro, attack me. I run, dog bites a big chunk of my 10yr old back leg out. Nearly bled out from that one before getting to the emergency room. Back then we had ambulance attendants where I live, almost zero BTLS and no such thing as ALS training.

Surfing the storm of the century swell. Triple overhead sets and clean. Biggest surf I'd ever been in. Florida isn't known for big surf. TOADS take off and die syndrome. Get ragdolled and caught in the wash cycle. Finally lets me up and as soon as I breech another one hits me on the head. Caught three or 4 more with 2 half breaths during the whole affair. Nearly blacked out completely.

I could keep going.

 

[snoopy7548]

Why are you alive? ​

I think therefore I am.

I had a 4 door mid to late 60s Dodge Dart pull out in front of me while on my "crotch rocket" going about 45mph/72kmh. Supermanned, hit on my head and hands flipped back to my feet and ran out of it.

I'm 15, my friend 16 stole his mom's car. He told us she let him use it. 4 guys 2 girls in a Chrysler K car. Gets drunk and high and picks us up from the football game. I am making out with one of the girls when I hear Keith don't! We get t-boned at the intersection where he ran the red light. I was ejected from the vehicle. Only a moderate head injury and road rash to show for it. 2 of the other kids got off worse.

Guys pull out in front of us from a blind driveway on Tropical Trail. My bro is bent, and as soon as he gets a chance pull along side them to start some shit. Passenger fire a handgun close enough to my bro's head that he has powder burns. Bullet passes through the car, we end up in the ditch on the side of U.S.1.

I'm 10, 2 hunting dogs jump the 5ft chain link fence and are roaming the street. I hear serious shit going down outside. Dogs are trying to get our cat Malibu. I throw cat on roof and try to make the dogs go home. Dogs get aggro, attack me. I run, dog bites a big chunk of my 10yr old back leg out. Nearly bled out from that one before getting to the emergency room. Back then we had ambulance attendants where I live, almost zero BTLS and no such thing as ALS training.

Surfing the storm of the century swell. Triple overhead sets and clean. Biggest surf I'd ever been in. Florida isn't known for big surf. TOADS take off and die syndrome. Get ragdolled and caught in the wash cycle. Finally lets me up and as soon as I breech another one hits me on the head. Caught three or 4 more with 2 half breaths during the whole affair. Nearly blacked out completely.

I could keep going.

Are you a superhero or something?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Are you a superhero or something?

Based upon my brain injuries, broken bones, scars, and onset of osteoarthritis, I'd say definitely the "or something". That something being a blend of crash test dummy and Jackass cast member.

 

[Captante]

Today would be one of those days I asked the OP's question of myself.