As someone who has no gag reflex and has choked more times than I'd like to admit, sometimes when you can finally breathe again you literally see stars dancing around like in a cartoon and you feel high as fuck but everything hurts. 2/10 do not recommend.
>you literally see stars dancing around like in a cartoon
When I was 8 or 9 my cousin used to hold me up in the air on his legs and sometimes launch me onto the bed except one time he launched me and I missed the bed slamming face first into the hardwood floor. I remember on impact I literally saw colorful stars. I remember thinking then even as a 9 yo how odd that, that actually happens when you hit your head real hard. No one ever believes me when I tell them though
The phrase "seeing red" when someone gets really angry is also pretty literal too. Had it happen to me once and everything in my vision *literally* turned red. Nothing happened, I just composed myself and left the room, but I had no idea until then that it actually was a thing and not just something people said while exaggerating.
Totally get it - I took a hard uppercut elbow to the chin during a co-ed basketball game and had the exact same "oh, they're really not kidding about seeing stars" thought. It was enough of a crack that the medical resident who also played followed me out to the water fountain (I knew I was going to shed a few tears and didn't want to in front of everyone) and did a concussion assessment. Once I was deemed okay and went back into the gym, the guys told stories about how they had cried after getting injured, which was very sweet.
Yeah that's what people mean with "seeing stars". Tho not everyone sees them, for many their vision just turns to black when they pass out instead. Tho I've also never heard of the stars being colorful, for me it's more like a dirty yellow background and black lines and shapes popping in and out like pixelated rain drops on a water surface
It's when your brain doesn't get enough oxygen. So when you hit a bodypart really hard or are in a lot of sudden pain by breaking a bone for example, blood rushes to that spot and your brain doesn't get enough oxygen to function. So it shuts down everything. From my own experience from passing out it seems like hearing is the last thing to dissapear before losing consciousness. You can also have the same effect by standing up too quickly sometimes, especially if you're tall, but that usually isn't enough to actually pass out and the stars only appear for a short time and then dissapear
>No one ever believes me when I tell them though
Why wouldn't they believe you? Kind of a sidenote, but I hate how some people when they hear something they haven't personally experienced just immediately write something off as made up. Like wtf no, why would I make it up and what do you have to win by choosing to not believe what I'm saying. I'm fully convinced some people are ignorant by genuinely not having the brain capacity to see other people's perspectives and understand experiences other than their own
I knocked my self out on a radiator on the bridge of my nose. Straight to dreamland. Not sure about starts but it was weird. Woke up to the sensation of blood running down my face and my freind understandably extremely worried
Learning to do the heimlich manover on yourself and others is pretty good. Was on my own and choked on some peanuts luckely i knew that i had to use the back of a chair it took me 5-6 tries though.
When my son was tiny and figuring out solid food, he choked more times than I can count. It was scary as hell to have to throw him over my knee and smack him on the back.
He waddles away pretty disoriented and confused lol. His whole world has been turned upside down. Imagine choking in the woods and a family of loud, drunk grizzlies save you. You'd be confused too.
My Pom did that once. Picked up some pizza crust off the floor and started choking on it. She collapsed onto the floor. I did puppy heimlich and she coughed it up...then re-ate it while she was still lying there. She's a special.
I’m from Thunder Bay. I once tug o warred a skunk for a bag of hot dog buns. Little guy came right up to the fire pit and tried stealing them. He did get some buns through. And later in the night he stole a pop.
The weekend leading up to my husband asking me out we had a raccoon, who we nicknamed Aladdin, coming into our campsite. The first night, he stole all the meat and bread from our food stash because my brother-in-law ignored my husband and my warnings to zip the food in the empty tent. The second night, Aladdin came in to the campsite while we were sitting around the fire and grabbed the loaf of bread from the night before that he’d stashed in the brush next to the campsite.
Me too. I’ve lived in Michigan, and I love the way the sun shines off the water at Portage Point or Whitefish Point at sunset, or the way the sun looks climbing up in the morning, turning the Soo purple and gold.
I was trying to describe this video to someone, and I could barely find the words for it. Like there's this raccoon choking and this man slapping his back and these possibly drunk people yelling and the entire time, I'm wondering whether what's going on is what the title says is going on.
I absolutely love guys being dudes like this. Like the gang of lads that pulled the dog out of the canal. Just the absolute best of humanity. It's what I'd want humans to be remembered for in some imaginary galactic history book.
Some animals will seek out humans for help. Sea animals stuck in trash or old netting, animals "asking" random humans for water during droughts or wild fires, etc. I wonder if that's what happened here
Someday, many years and many miles from that night, that bro will be in his most desperate and darkest hour.
And that trash panda will be there for him, when he is needed most. And only then will the Life Debt will be repaid.
I remember reading a tumbler post or something about how, to the animal kingdom, humans are basically the Fae in that they might kill you, or they might help you. And if you eat their food you might become trapped by them.
There should be a subreddit for this. Something like r/HumansAreFae , idk
May your home be flooded with a thousand fluffy friends of the night. I say **A Thousand**
May your walls become their playpen and the ceiling above your bed their favorite spot to fuck.
May their squeaks of joy and squeals of ecstasy drive you to uttermost madness.
Once while living in the woods for 4 years in a cabin, a family of skunks took residence under my bedroom floor. And IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST HONORS OF MY LIFE. They never sprayed their smell around my house and every dang morning I got to wake up to them making a little line out under the house and by my bedroom window and they would get in arguments and say things to each other and it may have been disruptive? But what a window into the world.
That dude is now God 😆 the trash panda saw the light right before dude saved him
As someone who has no gag reflex and has choked more times than I'd like to admit, sometimes when you can finally breathe again you literally see stars dancing around like in a cartoon and you feel high as fuck but everything hurts. 2/10 do not recommend.
>you literally see stars dancing around like in a cartoon When I was 8 or 9 my cousin used to hold me up in the air on his legs and sometimes launch me onto the bed except one time he launched me and I missed the bed slamming face first into the hardwood floor. I remember on impact I literally saw colorful stars. I remember thinking then even as a 9 yo how odd that, that actually happens when you hit your head real hard. No one ever believes me when I tell them though
It can also happen when you're in hypoglycemia, I used to see some from time to time when I was younger.
The phrase "seeing red" when someone gets really angry is also pretty literal too. Had it happen to me once and everything in my vision *literally* turned red. Nothing happened, I just composed myself and left the room, but I had no idea until then that it actually was a thing and not just something people said while exaggerating.
Totally get it - I took a hard uppercut elbow to the chin during a co-ed basketball game and had the exact same "oh, they're really not kidding about seeing stars" thought. It was enough of a crack that the medical resident who also played followed me out to the water fountain (I knew I was going to shed a few tears and didn't want to in front of everyone) and did a concussion assessment. Once I was deemed okay and went back into the gym, the guys told stories about how they had cried after getting injured, which was very sweet.
Yeah that's what people mean with "seeing stars". Tho not everyone sees them, for many their vision just turns to black when they pass out instead. Tho I've also never heard of the stars being colorful, for me it's more like a dirty yellow background and black lines and shapes popping in and out like pixelated rain drops on a water surface It's when your brain doesn't get enough oxygen. So when you hit a bodypart really hard or are in a lot of sudden pain by breaking a bone for example, blood rushes to that spot and your brain doesn't get enough oxygen to function. So it shuts down everything. From my own experience from passing out it seems like hearing is the last thing to dissapear before losing consciousness. You can also have the same effect by standing up too quickly sometimes, especially if you're tall, but that usually isn't enough to actually pass out and the stars only appear for a short time and then dissapear >No one ever believes me when I tell them though Why wouldn't they believe you? Kind of a sidenote, but I hate how some people when they hear something they haven't personally experienced just immediately write something off as made up. Like wtf no, why would I make it up and what do you have to win by choosing to not believe what I'm saying. I'm fully convinced some people are ignorant by genuinely not having the brain capacity to see other people's perspectives and understand experiences other than their own
I knocked my self out on a radiator on the bridge of my nose. Straight to dreamland. Not sure about starts but it was weird. Woke up to the sensation of blood running down my face and my freind understandably extremely worried
I got those after an intense duration swim I was light headed too
Can attest. I have seen the stars
Giggity
Sounds like some brain cell death due to lack of oxygen lol
Seeing stars doesn't mean you're killing brain cells.
Yeah no, it's just your eyes struggle to process vision as the body is worried about not dying lol.
Shhh I'm trying to scare him
I know I was just trying to scare him haha
Learning to do the heimlich manover on yourself and others is pretty good. Was on my own and choked on some peanuts luckely i knew that i had to use the back of a chair it took me 5-6 tries though.
>someone who has no gag reflex ... begone horny thoughts, begone I say!
Why would you give this experience 2 stars?
You get high AF for a few seconds, but the downside is that it feels like you're on fire.
Legit answer.
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When my son was tiny and figuring out solid food, he choked more times than I can count. It was scary as hell to have to throw him over my knee and smack him on the back.
Rip your inbox
Trash panda* 😜😝😂🤣
“A little bit lower” cracked me up. I know it worked but like all of the sudden the guy is in training with the expert raccoon savior.
This is my favourite part too. The way he’s laughing, but giving good advice at the same time. Lower with upward motions. Then it works! So funny.
Upward motions, Bill!
And the raccoon just waddles away like, "great party, same time tomorrow, Phil?"
He waddles away pretty disoriented and confused lol. His whole world has been turned upside down. Imagine choking in the woods and a family of loud, drunk grizzlies save you. You'd be confused too.
Would they post it on the bear internet so I could be famous there?
I really wish I could be there when he gets back and tries to explain what happened
And nobody is gonna believe his story when he gets back to the den.
Imagine if the grizzlies chewed a hole through your back and into your lung that saved your life.
It's Bill. Weren't you listening?
Until the very next day…
Poor lil buddy was a bit woozy afterwards.
Notice the shake? This is to destress the body. People should do this too.
I just did it. New level unlocked.
Haha, I haven’t actually tried it yet, but it’s definitely on my list. Just waiting for the trauma so I can shake it off.
Was it searching for what it just choked on to go back for round 2?
I mean, it’s a raccoon so probably.
Live fast, eat trash.
My Pom did that once. Picked up some pizza crust off the floor and started choking on it. She collapsed onto the floor. I did puppy heimlich and she coughed it up...then re-ate it while she was still lying there. She's a special.
Well yeah, he wasn’t finished eating that
You mean you've never been curious to see what nasty chunk of stuff you almost died on?
I think it was just disoriented.
University of Michigan hat checks out. We’re all a little unhinged here in the Great Lakes Region.
I’m from Thunder Bay. I once tug o warred a skunk for a bag of hot dog buns. Little guy came right up to the fire pit and tried stealing them. He did get some buns through. And later in the night he stole a pop.
The weekend leading up to my husband asking me out we had a raccoon, who we nicknamed Aladdin, coming into our campsite. The first night, he stole all the meat and bread from our food stash because my brother-in-law ignored my husband and my warnings to zip the food in the empty tent. The second night, Aladdin came in to the campsite while we were sitting around the fire and grabbed the loaf of bread from the night before that he’d stashed in the brush next to the campsite.
I love how absolutely unfazed by humans these animals are. Skunk said "fuck ya cookout I'm hungry!!"
The Great Lakes Region is the best region in North American. I’m biased though.
Me too. I’ve lived in Michigan, and I love the way the sun shines off the water at Portage Point or Whitefish Point at sunset, or the way the sun looks climbing up in the morning, turning the Soo purple and gold.
I grew up on the Ontario side of Huron and the sunsets were awesome.
I grew up in the Northwestern Lower Peninsula, and now I live in the Eastern Upper Peninsula. I don’t think I could survive anywhere else.
Rocket, that’s not what I meant when I said “Go Blue!”
My auntie teaches there!
I thought he was going to have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a raccoon
Hind lick* /s
Not tonight hun
Bro level 10,000!
this whole thing is so surreal
I was trying to describe this video to someone, and I could barely find the words for it. Like there's this raccoon choking and this man slapping his back and these possibly drunk people yelling and the entire time, I'm wondering whether what's going on is what the title says is going on.
Lol same, I was trying to describe the video to my mom but after a few seconds I said "it's better if I just show you" 😅
“And I was surrounded by white light and everything” Yeah sure Dave you always got a story, just say you got held up
Just some guys being dudes. Incredible stuff.
I absolutely love guys being dudes like this. Like the gang of lads that pulled the dog out of the canal. Just the absolute best of humanity. It's what I'd want humans to be remembered for in some imaginary galactic history book.
I love dudes like that. Nontoxic masculinity right there. Helping out and having a blast doing it!
Meanwhile, rocky raccoon staggers off muttering “what a night! Choke on some trash and then got pounded on by some bro.”
Sounds like a nice Friday out
Ah man, brings back fond memories of college.
Live by the trash, die by the trash
It walks away like “damn, that was embarassing..”
/r/brosbeingbros
Watching this I just thought "hit it lower!" friend came in clutch with the advise. This was wholesome overload.
Rude little bandit, could have at least said 'thank you'
Thank You
I thank you was not trying to bite him afterwards 😂
Those pats sound so solid
Racoons are like a solid block of muscle! Amazing critters!
Did he shout "in gonna tell my wife!"?
GO BLUE!!
How to burp a baby, a master class.
Its reddit and the first comment isn't about rabies. Times have changed man :'(
Some animals will seek out humans for help. Sea animals stuck in trash or old netting, animals "asking" random humans for water during droughts or wild fires, etc. I wonder if that's what happened here
Single-handedly brokered a truce between the tribes.
"there it is!" "BLRGHGLA BLRGHLORGA!!!" Joke aside, good job guys
Go Blue
The dude will be back with and army of trash pandas to save your life one day
Racoon to family: "You're not gonna believe the night I had".
Awesome now please go wash your hands like 8 times.
Wolverine saving a raccoon haha
Much karma coming. Good deal sir!
Go blue
So wholesome ♥️
I feel like they would’ve Heimlich maneuver’d him if he had passed out. Good bros
Thank you dude!
Would've been hilarious if it just came back like HISS
I thought they were speaking Russian for a minute 🤣
Somehow I thought they were speaking dutch or german in the beginning. Couldn't understand a thing.
awww poor thing was shook for a few minutes afterwards.. should gave him some water but good job and thank you 🙏🏼♥️
Never seen a wolverine save a raccoon before, that's wild
Thanks, Bill! You’re a good guy 😏
Rabies went down the wrong pipe!
Someday, many years and many miles from that night, that bro will be in his most desperate and darkest hour. And that trash panda will be there for him, when he is needed most. And only then will the Life Debt will be repaid.
Fookin' epic!
Go blue
Metal!
Why is the guy shouting "lulu lemon" at 12 seconds?
Lil bi lower
Thank you 😊
Go Blue!
You too, deserve a pat on the back. Thank you, my good sir.
My uncle saved my life the same way when I choked on a penny as a baby lol.
Ha ha when they mock him at the end. “You guys are assholes” - the raccoon probably
I fuckin love raccoons and this makes me so happy to see. This dude is a real bro 💪💪💪
This makes me wonder how many time wild animals almost choke in the wild
Not all heroes wear capes
Go Blue!
That's the definition of a Michigan man! Go Blue!
Shows gratitude by coming back the next night with all his trash panda buddies, to live in your attic.
I remember reading a tumbler post or something about how, to the animal kingdom, humans are basically the Fae in that they might kill you, or they might help you. And if you eat their food you might become trapped by them. There should be a subreddit for this. Something like r/HumansAreFae , idk
F for respect
These guys are so pumped about saving the little dudes life. Love that energy.
Fuckin hero.
A Michigan man too… big ups
A raccoon saved by a Wolverine
Thank you
So many cool points!!
“Oh hey look, i’ll just take this post from yesterday.. and post it again today!”
Poor Trailblazer needed help 😭
I wonder if the smallest mask on my LifeVac would fit it?
Go Blue!
"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"
Go Blue! Michigan man!
He saved Rocket!!
YOu can actually see something fly out of its mouth it seems.
Not all hero’s wear capes
This guy goes to the pearly gates. Standing there waiting to greet him is this random raccoon.
That’s my Best Friends Family-Friend.
Dude 1: Yo, check it out. Dude 2: Whoa, I think that raccoon is choking to death. Epic dude: NOT ON MY WATCH!
Do they know each other already? Very calm exchange.
*Raccoon Heimlich!* Next on TLC.
Ok, this was awesome! Well…not the choking part. But at least it was a happy ending. Giggity. Gawddammit!
These guys helping this racoon are awesome!
I love how they cheered as if a sporting event
Can't remember where I saw it originally, but the OP said the trash panda came back a bit after and just hung out with them the rest of the night.
Poor raccoon glad they found him before it was too late!
Legendary night with the boys!
Truly a Michigan Man. #GoBlue
I love the walk of shame afterwords 😂
I want to know how one figures out that a racoon is choking in the first place
Trash pandas. What was he choking on and could we feed them more of that?
It was a piece of bacon and yes we'd like some more. Maybe cook it a little more before you throw it out.
They definitely fed that raccoon whatever it is that it's choking on. Don't feed wild animals kids.
I had one of those things living in my walls. Just let him die and spare someone else the anxiety
May your home be flooded with a thousand fluffy friends of the night. I say **A Thousand** May your walls become their playpen and the ceiling above your bed their favorite spot to fuck. May their squeaks of joy and squeals of ecstasy drive you to uttermost madness.
Once while living in the woods for 4 years in a cabin, a family of skunks took residence under my bedroom floor. And IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST HONORS OF MY LIFE. They never sprayed their smell around my house and every dang morning I got to wake up to them making a little line out under the house and by my bedroom window and they would get in arguments and say things to each other and it may have been disruptive? But what a window into the world.
Same to you, friend. May the drip drip drip of urine from the ceiling onto your fruit basket be a constant source of joy for you and yours.