BF2S Forums The Urge To Jump

Funky_Finny wrote:

james@alienware wrote:

I was speaking to my friend today about experiences of 'the urge' with referance to when you stand at the top of something high (cliff, building) and you suddenly want to jump....


I read somewhere a few months back that it is to do with your brain mistaking the huge fall as an escape route. As it automatically plans ways to get away from any situation you're in.


I sadly couldn't find what I read before after some googling so if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

By any chance were you reading MBUK?
I read the same passage.

Haha no, I'd completly forgotten about that. I vaugly do remember it now, with Martin Ashton right? 


Yeah, complete coincidence!

Another example I had was when I was driving yesterday, along a country lane, and I remember seeing a sign (irrelevent) and just thinking.... if i turned the wheel hard right now, I could kill myself....easily, it was a really strange thought path, that only lasted a few seconds but was pretty scary.

When I've been waiting for the train on the undergroud, you don't know how many times I've thought "i could just jump right now in front of that shit" - It's weird and disturbing and so I always stand as far away from the platform edge just incase (and incase some dik 'ed tries to push me on the tracks) :p

I aint suicidle at all, but, I know what you mean

james@alienware wrote:

Funky_Finny wrote:

james@alienware wrote:

I was speaking to my friend today about experiences of 'the urge' with referance to when you stand at the top of something high (cliff, building) and you suddenly want to jump....


I read somewhere a few months back that it is to do with your brain mistaking the huge fall as an escape route. As it automatically plans ways to get away from any situation you're in.


I sadly couldn't find what I read before after some googling so if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

By any chance were you reading MBUK?
I read the same passage.

Haha no, I'd completly forgotten about that. I vaugly do remember it now, with Martin Ashton right? 


Yeah, complete coincidence!

Dirt is clearly where it's at.

You guys are emo's at heart, I can tell.

I don't really get it with jumping in fronts of cars or stabbing myself, but that urge to jump off a tall ledge happens to me. For me, it's more about a curiousity of what it would feel like. I get the urge to experience the freefall. I should try skydiving sometime.

H.A.L.O. jumps are MAD FUN! and for all you non-military persons that stands for High Altitude Low Oxygen jumps. It's like skydiving to the max. That's a perfect example of "if you dont have that "urge" to jump, then you wont". Like vilham said it's the need to get the rush. I too have this "urge" and I have come to believe by reading this thread it affects us all but in different ways. Funky-Finny said he doesn't have it anymore but perhaps it does in the long run by influencing his decisions in a "behind the scenes" kind of way.

However as was also afore mentioned some people have this "urge" and it acts on them in such a strong way as to make them act on these urges without thought or filter thus the person is classified as a diseased person. In short it does affect us all but in different ways and strengths.

Last edited by eaglecorps (2008-01-24 19:56:41)

I get the reverse. I'd think about pushing you off if you were standing next to me. Heh.

I'll be standing in a crowd of people and I'll think to myself; " I could get a good grab at his adams apple and yank his larynx right out. Maybe his tongue would come with it. " Or, I'll see a woman with a skinny neck and I'll imagine how easy it would be to lop her head off.

DefCon-17 wrote:

I always get that when I walk over a certain bridge.

Not to kill myself though. Just to see what it's like.

It's not exactly a high bridge.

Yea, Thats why I want to try basejumping. The thrill of chucking yourself off a cliff/building etc. but without the death...

IMO basejumping>skydiving

I too am scared of heights, not of falling but jumping.
It could be due to regular dreams of being able to fly.
A small fall, then flying. Weird.

The above seems to be embedded in the psyche of many people across the world.

BlackKoala wrote:

eaglecorps wrote:

H.A.L.O. jumps are MAD FUN! and for all you non-military persons that stands for High Altitude Low Oxygen jumps. It's like skydiving to the max. That's a perfect example of "if you dont have that "urge" to jump, then you wont". Like vilham said it's the need to get the rush. I too have this "urge" and I have come to believe by reading this thread it affects us all but in different ways. Funky-Finny said he doesn't have it anymore but perhaps it does in the long run by influencing his decisions in a "behind the scenes" kind of way.

However as was also afore mentioned some people have this "urge" and it acts on them in such a strong way as to make them act on these urges without thought or filter thus the person is classified as a diseased person. In short it does affect us all but in different ways and strengths.

Uhhh.....I thought it was 'High Altitude Low Opening"...

Lol... it is. "High Altitude Low Oxygen jumps." wouldnt be fun... you would die anyway.

This thread is weird.

BlackKoala wrote:

eaglecorps wrote:

H.A.L.O. jumps are MAD FUN! and for all you non-military persons that stands for High Altitude Low Oxygen jumps. It's like skydiving to the max. That's a perfect example of "if you dont have that "urge" to jump, then you wont". Like vilham said it's the need to get the rush. I too have this "urge" and I have come to believe by reading this thread it affects us all but in different ways. Funky-Finny said he doesn't have it anymore but perhaps it does in the long run by influencing his decisions in a "behind the scenes" kind of way.

However as was also afore mentioned some people have this "urge" and it acts on them in such a strong way as to make them act on these urges without thought or filter thus the person is classified as a diseased person. In short it does affect us all but in different ways and strengths.

Uhhh.....I thought it was 'High Altitude Low Opening"...

Wikipedia tells me it 'High Altitude-Low Output' and conversely High Output. However I'd always previously heard Low Opening. But the main point here is that he's wrong, and so is most likely talking completely out of his ass.

I tried to kill myself by holding my breath... didn't work I'm a bad emo