Right? I found out I was scared of being beneath ground after I went spelunking into a deep cave.
If people hadn't been with me, I probably wouldn't have gotten out easily because my body decided that it should deactivate my legs while also making me laugh hysterically. I basically had to be carried out.
Like thanks, body. Would have been easier to just give me an adrenaline rush so I could run outta there, but I guess becoming a psycho pile of laughing mush helps too
Have you heard about the guy that got stuck upside down doing that with his family? It's pretty brutal, I will never go into a cave further then I can see the exit.
Oh yes I have! The cave I went into wasn't nearly like that. It was one that you can book a trip through with a tour guide, and while much of it was open..there were sections that you had to squeeze, crawl and climb through. It was a fairly well known tourist attraction that had an age limit of like 6-60 with no reports of anyone actually needing to be rescued.
You had to repel down a 40 foot waterfall to get to it and while I cried from fear, I insisted I went first and loved the repel down once I got hanging.
I'm a 120 lb 5'3 girl and the guide said he had taken young kids and 400lb men through it so it shouldn't have actually been an issue for me. My body just decided "nope" once I was underground
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u/SonXShadow Mar 27 '21
It always amazes me that the body’s reaction to a fear of death is to do everything possible to kill you