hypoxic euphoria?

[Sagara]

Do any of you guys experience hypoxic euphoria near the end of a long breath hold or dive? I read that hypoxic euphoria occurs shortly before blackout?

Well I did a search and didn't find anything about it here, and it seems odd to me that it has not been discussed. Personally, I just started training my breathhold recently. My best dry static is 4:15, and I felt close to black out at the end of it, was dizzy and weak for several minutes afterwards, but certainly did not experience any kind of euphoria. Does hypoxic euphoria happen to everyone, every time, or is it only some people, or only on some occasions, or is it more of a myth than anything else? Or does anyone even know???!?! Enquiring minds want to know!


...ok, I'll stop now.

 

[efattah]

I have never experienced hypoxic euphoria, despite many sambas & blackouts. I have never heard of anyone else experiencing it.

 

[island_sands]

Do any of you guys experience hypoxic euphoria near the end of a long breath hold or dive? I read that hypoxic euphoria occurs shortly before blackout?

Well I did a search and didn't find anything about it here, and it seems odd to me that it has not been discussed. Personally, I just started training my breathhold recently. My best dry static is 4:15, and I felt close to black out at the end of it, was dizzy and weak for several minutes afterwards, but certainly did not experience any kind of euphoria. Does hypoxic euphoria happen to everyone, every time, or is it only some people, or only on some occasions, or is it more of a myth than anything else? Or does anyone even know???!?! Enquiring minds want to know!


...ok, I'll stop now.

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[pelagicbeing]

I am generally totally 'bliss'ed out :inlove for a good hour after my dives at the weekend, so much so that i dont like to drive for that amount of time as i am a total space cadet! but i dont think that is hypoxic euphoria...just a culmination of total relaxation over a period of hours, and gently and rhythmically slipping down and back up again in the sea......mmmmm....wish i was there now...

I have to be careful where and when i start daydreaming about my dives, as that is enough to put me in dive mode = (totally useless relaxed bi-ped, with silly smile that you cant hold a coherent conversation with..:head )

 

[Sagara]

Hmmm, that's interesting. Perhaps hypoxic euphoria is really just a manifestation of masochism (whatever the hell THAT really is). Is it possible that some people get a rush of adrenaline as they near to passing out, or think they are near to it? That might explain why most free divers don't experience it, because someone who has been training their body to do this and pushes themselves into a hypoxic state on a regular basis probably will not freak out in the way that would result in an adrenaline rush (?).

 

[OceanMan]

I know someone who experience hypoxic euphoria at the end of almost each of his empty lungs apnea.
I never experienced it myself.

 

[naiad]

I have never experienced anything like that. Sometimes when I am at the limit the urge to breathe changes into a strange nice feeling, and then I know that I can only do a few more seconds, or maybe I am already in trouble.

 

[OceanMan]

Sometimes when I am at the limit the urge to breathe changes into a strange nice feeling

That's what I call hypoxic euphoria !

 

[naiad]

Maybe it is. What I meant is that is is a physical feeling, not a 'high' or happy feeling, which is what I thought euphoria is.

 

[pelagicbeing]

eu·pho·ri·a
noun.

A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

[New Latin, from Greek, from euphoros, healthy : eu-, eu- + pherein, to bear.]

 

[Apnea_Addict]

Question: Can you feel the urge to breath as a seperate feeling apart from the contractions ?

Holger

 

[sickbugs]

when i am extremely relaxed (late night statics) i can go through quite a lot of contractions sometimes without feeling the urge to breath, when im in the water, contractions and the urge to breath are one and the same

 

[naiad]

eu·pho·ri·a
noun.

A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

Then that's not what I experience.

Question: Can you feel the urge to breath as a seperate feeling apart from the contractions ?

Yes. I often experience the urge to breathe without any contractions.

Lucia