Hi team. I'm a very old member and I haven't walked these halls in a bout a decade! I'm drawn back in the hopes that this is the best place in the world I can think of to ask some very specific questions.
A younger sibling of mine is enjoying the mind and spirit expanding properties kf recreational drug use at the moment. A bunch of her friends are promoting a technique when peaking where they intentionally hyperventilate, cross their arms across their chest, then another bear hugs them tightly and lifts them off the ground as they breath out, and they pass out for minutes or so.
I remember this technique doing the rounds when I was younger and a different technique trumping this one as it was reportedly safer, as well as easier to achieve and more comfortable. I don't remember the specifics but I'm quite sure it involved several deep inhales while lifting arms out to the side at shoulder height, then exhales while dropping the arms down to cross in front before swinging up again. I also remember a person standing behind and giving a signal, at which point the 'breather' would place their tongue behind their teeth and tip their head back in one motion. I'm pretty sure that there is another detail I've missed in here somewhere.
Anyway, that's the background. I've always been a very firm believer in making educated decisions when it comes to drug use. Do the gains outweigh the risks and how can those risks be controlled or lessened..
So my questions are, can anyone tell me specifically what these series of actions do to the body? I assume the first is to do with oxygen content in the brain?
How about the second? Is the second actually safer? And if the answer is yes, it would then be my view that it makes sense to pass this technique on tothosewho are regularly engaging in the first, along with the information around why one is better than the other, right?
And thirdly, is anyone actually familiar with these techniques? Was there something I missed in the second technique, as none of this is going to matter if they can't get the safer of the 2 to work..
Thanks in advance.
A younger sibling of mine is enjoying the mind and spirit expanding properties kf recreational drug use at the moment. A bunch of her friends are promoting a technique when peaking where they intentionally hyperventilate, cross their arms across their chest, then another bear hugs them tightly and lifts them off the ground as they breath out, and they pass out for minutes or so.
I remember this technique doing the rounds when I was younger and a different technique trumping this one as it was reportedly safer, as well as easier to achieve and more comfortable. I don't remember the specifics but I'm quite sure it involved several deep inhales while lifting arms out to the side at shoulder height, then exhales while dropping the arms down to cross in front before swinging up again. I also remember a person standing behind and giving a signal, at which point the 'breather' would place their tongue behind their teeth and tip their head back in one motion. I'm pretty sure that there is another detail I've missed in here somewhere.
Anyway, that's the background. I've always been a very firm believer in making educated decisions when it comes to drug use. Do the gains outweigh the risks and how can those risks be controlled or lessened..
So my questions are, can anyone tell me specifically what these series of actions do to the body? I assume the first is to do with oxygen content in the brain?
How about the second? Is the second actually safer? And if the answer is yes, it would then be my view that it makes sense to pass this technique on tothosewho are regularly engaging in the first, along with the information around why one is better than the other, right?
And thirdly, is anyone actually familiar with these techniques? Was there something I missed in the second technique, as none of this is going to matter if they can't get the safer of the 2 to work..
Thanks in advance.
