Drugs vs Extreme Sports

Associate
Joined
24 Oct 2006
Posts
1,752
Location
Sheffield
When doing extreme sports is there something else going on other than the flooding of your body with chemicals making you feel good ? Could one simply inject there self with the same chemicals produced by your body when you jump out of a plane or take something that makes the same chemicals be released and get the same effects or is there something else going on ?
 
When doing extreme sports is there something else going on other than the flooding of your body with chemicals making you feel good ? Could one simply inject there self with the same chemicals produced by your body when you jump out of a plane or take something that makes the same chemicals be released and get the same effects or is there something else going on ?

Are you referring to adrenaline? I wouldn't recommend injecting adrenaline. They use that to restart your heart if I remember rightly.
 
Are you referring to adrenaline? I wouldn't recommend injecting adrenaline. They use that to restart your heart if I remember rightly.

not just adrenaline. What im asking is if you could replicate the chemcial release without actually doing the event would it still feel the same ?
 
Are you referring to adrenaline? I wouldn't recommend injecting adrenaline. They use that to restart your heart if I remember rightly.

They do indeed.

Saw someone have it when they had a heart attack; needle straight in and the guy was like OKFODKFGSODFKGDFg
 
What if you took the drugs and THEN jumped out of a plane? Would it be the same or twice as crazy.

Apparently we assign causes to our feelings after the fact, so in theory you could take the adrenaline etc and go for a stroll in the park and you might then think of park walking as totally extreme. Although you'd have to be unaware you took the drugs at the time.
 
not just adrenaline. What im asking is if you could replicate the chemcial release without actually doing the event would it still feel the same ?

if you could then yes - but you can't - the only way to replicate the experience is to do it.

Maybe when we have our own avatars then you can use them to participate in extreme sports - otherwise you're going to have to experience it yourself.
 
Of course, the feeling can be replicated, it is just a very complex cascade of chemical releases. Caveat: anything to do with chemicals getting passed the blood brain barrier is a nightmare to design.

But at the end of the day all what happens in the human body can be broken into small chemical reactions, and each one of the individual steps replicated. The tricky business comes when we try to "stitch up" a sequence of reactions and monitor how the effect in one step effects the others.
 
Even supposing that you could replicate it the better question might be - would you want to? Part of the fun is actually doing the sport and having that "thrill" knowing that potentially it may go wrong but when it doesn´t and it goes well then it feels fantastic.
 
Back
Top Bottom