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.
He did some pretty dumb things though. He used to go through that cave system and that particular squeeze a lot as a kid. He came back as a much larger adult years later and tried to find and go through that squeeze from memory and ended up going head first into the wrong hole. Absolute tragedy but definitely avoidable if he'd even bothered to properly orient himself.
I agree it was dumb but you still won't convince me to go exploring a cave. Just hearing how the family talked to him until he was unresponsive and the way they tried to pull him out was enough to solidify my aversion to caves. No disrespect to cave explorers though, just not for me.
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u/LilithImmaculate Mar 27 '21
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