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I can relate to the 'surreal' part of it.

 

In my first month of self-employment 1987 I took a risk to speed the job up.

 

I free-climbed an ash to fix a steel winch rope from the tractor and fell. It was all over in seconds but the whole world went into slow motion as I hit a branch with my lower back which flicked me over. I landed on my hands and knees but in those few seconds falling I thought of my survival very clearly and without panic.

 

As soon as I landed my immediate thought was to stand as this would prove nothing major was broken or disconnected. The pain and sickness hit me about 10 mins later :001_smile:

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I had the same when the mewp went over.

 

Loads of time to think, your body floods with, all I can describe it as is , pain killer and it is the clearest thoughts I had had ever.

 

In split seconds you can analize whats going on and different senarios of how it will end up, weird weird feeling.

 

Afterwards you are on a high for a few minutes, I'd like to repeat the feeling but not the experience :001_smile:

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I fell out of a lime from ten feet.It was not a surreal experience because i'd no time to think about anything until i was rolling about the ground in agony thinking i can't have broken anything major coz i can still feel my feet.It was only when i stood up and turned round that i thought if i'd landed about three foot further back i'd have broken my neck on the wall under the tree!:scared1:

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I had the same when the mewp went over.

 

Loads of time to think, your body floods with, all I can describe it as is , pain killer and it is the clearest thoughts I had had ever.

 

In split seconds you can analize whats going on and different senarios of how it will end up, weird weird feeling.

 

Afterwards you are on a high for a few minutes, I'd like to repeat the feeling but not the experience :001_smile:

 

LOL at 'analise' -yes I probly woud be 'analising '

.....in smelly great loads......:)

 

K

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