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apnea - any other use?

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manalive!

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Hello all,

I've been wondering if apart from the obvious of moving around underwater and the general physical and mental well-being, if there's any other useful application for apnea. Has anyone ever found themselves in a situation where being an apniest has been of use?

The only one I can think of is the "you can't hold your breath for x minutes, ok if you do it now I'll buy you a pint"......
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well, how about putting tasty fish, crab, lobster etc on the table?
 
here is one: you can easily make your new colleagues fool you around saying you're crazyblackeye:blackeye
 
I believe that Jeremy (wreckrunner) was doing some research on using Apnea to help treat some of his patients with PTSD. Maybe he will chime in about it.

Other than that, it sure helped when the kids were little and I had some nasty diapers to change. rofl

Jon
 
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Apnea can be useful for several things:

1. Drinking awful tasting smoothies and health drinks (hold your breath the whole time)
2. If your car crashes into the water you have no problem escaping
3. If you are captured by enemy of government and tortured, you can commit suicide without any tools by exhale static and a pillow or clothing to smother your face
4. When walking in the street and having a car pass in front of you with horrible exhaust, you can stay healthy by holding your breath until the exhaust passes by
5. CO2 tables can be used to stimulate digestion/elimination/peristalsis
6. Women capable of apnea gain certain benefits in the bedroom (use imagination)
7. A good apneist is immune to water torture and could even fake his death by pretending to drown or black out
8. If you choke on food, you are more likely to remain functional and not panic for a longer period of time
...I'm sure you can find other things as well...
 
Full exhale statics get rid of hiccups in some people(me). You don't even have to hold very long

Connor
 
- excellent for using public toilets
- good training for your next heart stroke
- good training for your next brain stroke
- good for better coping with your night apnoea
- you finally find that getting fat over the years was an excellent investment since you do not need to buy any expensive wetsuits
 
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cdavis said:
Full exhale statics get rid of hiccups in some people(me). You don't even have to hold very long

Connor
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Good to know! I have found that a deep inhalation held for a moderate amount of time also alleviates hiccups.
 
Holding your breath until a few contractions will also clear your sinus even in a case of a very bad cold. The effect does not last very long (just a few minutes), but it is relieving anyway.
 
And yet another use - during apnea, the inner time clock rhythm changes - the longer you hold your breath, the faster the time appears to run. So if you happen to be bored too much, or imprisoned, or in unpleasant situation, just hold your breath for most of the time, and you'll easily cut the time by halve. So for example if you are sentenced for ten years, and manage to make breatholds most of the time, it will look just like 5 years to you before you get out.
 
Jason W. said:
Good to know! I have found that a deep inhalation held for a moderate amount of time also alleviates hiccups.
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Exhale seems to be better at getting rid of hiccups faster for me, I use it all the time because I'm very prone to them. I ~think~ its because its relaxes or somehow resets the vagus nerve?

efattah said:
Apnea can be useful for several things:
7. A good apneist is immune to water torture and could even fake his death by pretending to drown or black out
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Is this really true? I just ask because I was reading about water boarding the other day. Even highly competent solders who have done SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) training say its impossible not feel a horrific sensation of drowning. Its not just not possilble to hold your breath, perhaps because your face is covered with wet fabric (and plus all the other stress factors of being restrained upside down etc.) Seems to me that if apnea training was all that was needed to evade water boarding then it would be common knowledge - I mean a lot of specialist soldiers like SEALs would be familiar with freediving.... (btw sorry everyone its a grim grim subject....)

Although Eric I'm almost expecting you to say it does work...because you've done it on yourself! :blackeye
 
I find it can help me to sleep. If I'm having difficulty in sleeping then a couple of 2-3 minute breathholds and I'm away.
 
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I said apnea gives you near invulnerability to water torture. Not water boarding. They are different. Having water injected down your throat under pressure is water boarding. I was talking about having your face immersed in water against your will, or similar.

Regardless, I doubt any SEALS or other special forces have more than basic apnea skills. Otherwise they would be holding all the records. Being able to hold your breath for 3 minutes with a long breathe-up under controlled, relaxed conditions is nothing. Expert divers can reach 5 minutes with no breathe up under shock/forced apnea conditions, although it is obviously horrific.
 
re hiccups, apnea also taught me how to breath, and how to concentrate on breathing.
When I'm experiencing hiccups I just do nothing and concentrate on deepish (85%?) breathing for a minute or two. That's almost always enough to get rid of them.
 
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The movie from Italy in 2005 "Apnea" took its title from the fact that the African wetback workers in tanning factories have to hold their breath while extracting things from the large tanning tanks or they can die from the fumes- which some of them do from time to time.
 
Also the traditional sulphur volcano miners of East Java, Indonesia need to have solid breath-holding capacities, when passing through strongly acidic and toxic fumes when working in the volcano crater.

From
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12301421 :

 
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