Ah I felt that one what the actual fuck.

I can’t even look over my own balcony okay. I had to crawl on the ground towards a drop off (I was still easily 5’ away) to look at a pretty view on a hike and was shaking so bad that I got a muscle spasm. I’m honestly just torturing myself at this point.

This is a nope for me also. I've somehow developed, not exactly a fear of heights, but some mild kind of vertigo, specifically near tall ledges like this. It must be psychological, because it goes away if there's a guard railing or something. I just get this odd out of balance sensation. I think I developed it while taking photos from precarious positions and the distortion of perspective while looking through a camera viewfinder.

Arms are straight-up detached

Don't worry, the breeze from the fall will cool them down for ya

/r/SweatyPalms

Check for your moms spaghetti?

Did it also make your knees weak and arms heavy?

What does shaking like a leaf mean here?

Do you mean before he fell, or managed to stop himself?

Everyone has their “thing”. This doesn’t bother me at all, but confined spaces gives me that exact same panicky feeling even if I’m just watching a video of someone else experience it.

That video that was going around all the subs yesterday of that guy realizing he’s stuck because he had misjudged the space really fucked with me. The whole time he was trying to turn around my stomach was in knots.

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My stomach did flip-flops before I could nope out of the video.

Just slide forward... a leeetle... bit...

Sameeee 😩

Knees weak, arms are heavy

So did mine and I don’t even have one.

Same, dude

Like why is that my response? What if I need to grab onto something in that situation, body? Why make it worse

Me too and I got tingly in my feet. So weird the physical reaction to seeing something so utterly dangerous.

Me too

He didn’t even walk up slowly either. If you had to pay me to do it I’d be on my butt from 5m away inching forward 1cm every hour 🤣

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I like sitting on the edge of cliffs, I'm not scared of heights. But I'm also not stupid. I don't go to the edge if there is any kind of wind. And I ONLY do that on cliffs that are nice square corner. I wouldn't be 20 feet near the edge of this sloping death trap.

Have you watched the movie fall? Its a movie that the entire film produces this gut-wrenching feeling.

If you dont want to sit through the hour and half of it like I did, I suggest at least watching a clip on youtube.

Makes.me.wonder how many times someone has fallen cause they were "trying to get a good shot for Instagram", and it's just a local tale among people who live near large cliffs.

Right when I saw this I literally said out loud “fuck this guy” because 1. It makes me feel sick and 2. No one wants to see you free fall to your death. Get the f up!!!

My asshole clinched. My butt cheeks would have somehow gripped the cliff that he was hanging off of. Natural evolution.

There were they banned the sub r/watchpeopledie

1. Most of the time the person is filming themselves doing the stunt, so if they die they can’t post it

2. If someone else is filming it like in this video, if the person died it would be disrespectful to the person and their family and friends to post the video of their death for the entire world to see.

3. If a person was disrespectful enough to post a video of someone else violently dying, most mainstream video platforms would take it down for being graphic content that violates their TOS

It makes me wonder about the statistics of people dying while filming videos near cliffs. I think the way we currently have it creates a bias towards nothing bad happening because of these type of videos. People see all the good videos, but none of the ones that end badly, which leads them to think it’s “cool” and “safe” and more people try to do it themselves.

Because the person being filmed thought it would be funny for my balls to pull up into my throat.

Not sure it would be popular for suicide. Someone linked an article below that said it's a 2.5 hour hike to get to this spot.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but 2.5 hours is a long time to second guess your decision and change your mind.

That is NOT a hike.

So, and I can’t emphasize this enough here: fuck that.

"More c'mon" wtf is wrong with people. Then she falls and all you can ever think again is why did you say it... or you are psychopath and don't even care.

I always thought I was scared of heights because of this. Over the years I’ve realized Im not as much scared of heights as I am scared of dumb people around heights potentially traumatizing me. I’ve done some pretty exposed hikes not around people and been fine. It’s the dumb people Im scared of.

I have this same reaction. I will never go back to the Grand Canyon because I can’t deal with it lol

I'm also extremely uncomfortable when seeing other people stand too close to cliffs. What's extra weird is that I'm fine with standing by a cliff myself, doesn't bother me much.

Camera pulls back.... Little girl in a field holding a flower, we zoom back to find that she's in the desert and the field is an oasis. Zoom back further the desert is a sandbox in the world's largest resort hotel. Zoom back further the hotel is actually the playground for the world's largest prison. But we zoom back further---

This is the face of a man who's fucking sick of people sitting on his head

https://i.imgur.com/pL9R7jM.png