Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
Hi.
As so often before, a random thought crossed my mind. Actually, a memory is more like it.
I haven't thought about the following for a long time, as it's been over 5 years since my last experience with this phenomenon but as a kid, I experienced it very often.
I used to get this intense europhic rush which would last for 5-10 seconds. It was like a warm, embracing feeling which would start somewhere on my lower spine. When it would shoot upwards through my spine, up through my neck to the back of my head (at this point the feeling would intensify) and when it would "flow" through my head, stay there for 5 seconds tops and when fade as quickly as it started. The physical part was always the same - goosebumps and the hair on my arms would rise.
I obviously didn't know how drugs felt back then but now that I do, I would compare the feeling to a mixture of the euphoria achieved by taking drugs like MDMA, Amphetamines and opiates.
The wierd part is that the trigger of this rush was always the same.
It happened every time someone would try to help me out with something and I felt their empathy towards me was genuine.
It could be anything from someone trying to help me solve a math problem to someone trying to cheer me up when I felt bad.
The situation at hand didn't seem to matter much as long as it involved the other person trying to do something nice for me without the possibility of them getting something from me as well.
The rush would hit so fast and intense that it often made me unable to concentrate on anything. For example, if someone was helping me out with something pragmatic, I wouldn't be able to understand anything they said for those 10 seconds because well, I was pretty high.
Anyone else experienced something similar? If so, does this happen to you as an adult? Unfortunately, my days of free euphoria seems to be long gone.
As so often before, a random thought crossed my mind. Actually, a memory is more like it.
I haven't thought about the following for a long time, as it's been over 5 years since my last experience with this phenomenon but as a kid, I experienced it very often.
I used to get this intense europhic rush which would last for 5-10 seconds. It was like a warm, embracing feeling which would start somewhere on my lower spine. When it would shoot upwards through my spine, up through my neck to the back of my head (at this point the feeling would intensify) and when it would "flow" through my head, stay there for 5 seconds tops and when fade as quickly as it started. The physical part was always the same - goosebumps and the hair on my arms would rise.
I obviously didn't know how drugs felt back then but now that I do, I would compare the feeling to a mixture of the euphoria achieved by taking drugs like MDMA, Amphetamines and opiates.
The wierd part is that the trigger of this rush was always the same.
It happened every time someone would try to help me out with something and I felt their empathy towards me was genuine.
It could be anything from someone trying to help me solve a math problem to someone trying to cheer me up when I felt bad.
The situation at hand didn't seem to matter much as long as it involved the other person trying to do something nice for me without the possibility of them getting something from me as well.
The rush would hit so fast and intense that it often made me unable to concentrate on anything. For example, if someone was helping me out with something pragmatic, I wouldn't be able to understand anything they said for those 10 seconds because well, I was pretty high.
Anyone else experienced something similar? If so, does this happen to you as an adult? Unfortunately, my days of free euphoria seems to be long gone.
