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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22142610 - 08/25/15 07:19 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

idk why some people are making a big deal over it :shrug:
I didn't think you got on here to make yourself sound like a badass or anything. I enjoyed your story anyways :pipesmoke:


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: Kush_Zombie]
    #22142655 - 08/25/15 07:30 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks.  This is a debate forum so I welcome Frock to poke at my story, I just don't understand his last post.


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22142678 - 08/25/15 07:34 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah I could see you standing by the window in my head like those poor people on 9/11 thinking about jumping.  Glad you're okay:thumbup:


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22143015 - 08/25/15 08:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

"I need feedback regarding my life at times and I don't rely on many people in my actual life.  I know I'm stubborn and neurotic and I limit my happiness and well-being so opening up to others helps me break away from myself."

You said this.

I was pointing at this need for feedback with my post.

Also, I was trying to explain in my second reply in this thread that calling what happened in the fire a death anxiety situation might not be as applicable as it might seem. Death anxiety isn't about how you feel when your house is on fire. Its more about how you feel when you're sitting at home, with absolutely nothing to do. At least, this has been how it has always been described to me.


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22143068 - 08/25/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

um seriously?  a fire started in your apartment and all you can say is you are happy you lived?  and how brave you think you are??
meanwhile an innocent woman (who probably isn't a fucking idiot) was burned. in critical condition, and may die??  It would be more fair if it was you in there, NOT HER. 

What a selfish horrible thing to brag about, how you were calm over having to jump out a fucking window and could have sprained an ankle.  you are selfish and stupid as hell. I seriously hope this is all bullshit.


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: sprinkles]
    #22143099 - 08/25/15 08:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

im confused.  the title makes it sound like the place the fire started, then caught the unit next to you on fire. 

only if you are really heavy set and had jumped would I consider you brave.  :noway: :noway2:


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22143164 - 08/25/15 08:58 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

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Woke up to the smell of smoke.  Thought someone burnt pizza or something and realized my unit was pretty cloudy and there was alarms going off.  I opened my door and saw nothing but black smoke.  Went over to my window and saw the flames.  The unit next to me caught fire. 

I called 911 and then called my mom to let her know this might be my last hoorah and then weighed my options and they were to go through the hallway and down the stairs or get out via my window.  I live on the 4th floor of my complex so it wouldn't have been a safe jump but the hallway option didn't seem logical.  I thought about scaling my way down the building but there was no way.  People were on the ground telling me don't jump but the smoke quickly got to the point where all I could do is keep my head out the window to breathe and eventually I was going to be forced to jump.  I remained with my head out the window for a couple minutes and watched the fire escalate and then saw the water sprinkling out of the fire's unit :smile:

A few moments later firefighters came in, gave me a mask and saved my ass.

My apartment smells like shit and there's smoke residue everywhere, but fortunately none of my valuables are damaged.


The moments prior to the firefighters getting me out are fascinating to me in retrospect because I felt so calm.  I thought this could very well be my final moment and felt absolutely ok with jumping if I needed to, knowing I probably wouldn't have made it in one peace.  This was probably my closest dance with death and it makes me question death anxiety because I felt no anxiety.  I know I have symptoms of DA that are more than instinctual on a daily basis, but I don't understand why I wouldn't be worried in this situation. 

On another note, not going in the hallway was my best play, aside from not jumping.  A woman on my floor tried to use the stairs and passed out then burned for it. She's in critical condition but I wanna say she's ok.  Heresay was she would be ok but the news said she's in critical condition.


Anyways, I'm happy to still be around and pondering life with you all, but my apartment smells like shit.  They said it's safe to live here but the smell is quite horrible.  Can this be detrimental to my health if I stay?  I've been in my place now for a couple hours now and I can tolerate it, but I don't know if it's bad for my health.  When I blow my nose, my snots are black. I tell myself it's because I was breathing smoke in, but that was 12 hours ago and I showered and they are still black...This is my DA wanting to play :smirk:

But should I stay here tonight or go to a friends?  I really don't want to go to a friends and won't unless someone here tells my why I should.





Consider this: You were ready to jump, but only if the alternative was burning to death. Why? Because jumping was a very dangerous approach that no sane human would do without serious incentive. You may have felt calm but you were instinctively weighing the lesser of the unwanted. And even though jumping was better than burning, you clearly didn't want either to happen. That's why you didn't just go ahead and jump from yet another harmful situation, being in a room flooded with smoke! Your body knew that jumping was a bad idea even if your mind was saying "ready". Last resorts are last resorts for a reason. And it's not because they are appealing or calming. You don't try to avoid something until you have no choice due to it's calming effect. Just saying.

There was a study once that examined the tendency of people who, in life threatening situations, experience a sense of time slowing and their perceptions being heightened. Turns out that's all in our head. Our ability to perceive stimuli is no better and time remains unaltered. Despite that, in memory the events seem to occur in slow mode and incredible vibrancy.

What I'm getting at is that our mind seems very capable of, when pushed into a corner, altering our mental realty to make us feel more able, adept, and capable than we really are. And until put to the test, one may believe for instance that time does slow :shrug:


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: sprinkles]
    #22143760 - 08/25/15 11:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Maybe you should experiment with jumping out of a 4th floor window. Let us all know if you only sprain an ankle. it sounds like someone has weight issues, "Fatty McFatterson".


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22144531 - 08/26/15 05:04 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

What a story man, glad you're okay.  My mother is very claustrophobic and would never fly because she couldn't tolerate not being able to leave the plane......  Anyways, she's also a total health nut so it was surprising that she had a problem with her heart valve or the little strings that connect to it.... it was in the winter in the Midwest there and roads were in critical conditions so it would have taken a very long time for the ambulance to take her to the Cleveland heart hospital, so she said fuck it, since I'm gonna die anyways (she's histrionic like that) she'd take a helicopter ride.... At no point did she feel anxiety and actually was quite fascinated watching the scene from that angle......

Well, her surgery was a complete success..... she's effectively all better....    yet that experience changed nothing, she's still claustrophobic and won't fly, I'm not sure if she'll ever come visit me in Oregon.


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: Kickle]
    #22145922 - 08/26/15 11:35 AM (8 years, 5 months ago)

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xFrockx said:
"I need feedback regarding my life at times and I don't rely on many people in my actual life.  I know I'm stubborn and neurotic and I limit my happiness and well-being so opening up to others helps me break away from myself."

You said this.

I was pointing at this need for feedback with my post.

Also, I was trying to explain in my second reply in this thread that calling what happened in the fire a death anxiety situation might not be as applicable as it might seem. Death anxiety isn't about how you feel when your house is on fire. Its more about how you feel when you're sitting at home, with absolutely nothing to do. At least, this has been how it has always been described to me.



It was a pleasant surprise in retrospect that I felt no mental anxiety in that situation, that's what I was getting at and looking for speculation as to why in the face of possible immediate death there might not be anxiety towards it and so I agree with what you're saying.  :thumbup:





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What a story man, glad you're okay.  My mother is very claustrophobic and would never fly because she couldn't tolerate not being able to leave the plane......  Anyways, she's also a total health nut so it was surprising that she had a problem with her heart valve or the little strings that connect to it.... it was in the winter in the Midwest there and roads were in critical conditions so it would have taken a very long time for the ambulance to take her to the Cleveland heart hospital, so she said fuck it, since I'm gonna die anyways (she's histrionic like that) she'd take a helicopter ride.... At no point did she feel anxiety and actually was quite fascinated watching the scene from that angle......

Well, her surgery was a complete success..... she's effectively all better....    yet that experience changed nothing, she's still claustrophobic and won't fly, I'm not sure if she'll ever come visit me in Oregon.



:lol:  This episode really did nothing for me either.  I'm still bound to my chains of fear and self-preservation.  I'm a healthnut too and tend to workout to the point of mental/physical disconnect, making my body feel heavy and creative energy tends to lack as a result.  At the end of the day this experience became nothing more than a damaged apartment and a story where I can sound like I triumphed DA.

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Woke up to the smell of smoke.  Thought someone burnt pizza or something and realized my unit was pretty cloudy and there was alarms going off.  I opened my door and saw nothing but black smoke.  Went over to my window and saw the flames.  The unit next to me caught fire. 

I called 911 and then called my mom to let her know this might be my last hoorah and then weighed my options and they were to go through the hallway and down the stairs or get out via my window.  I live on the 4th floor of my complex so it wouldn't have been a safe jump but the hallway option didn't seem logical.  I thought about scaling my way down the building but there was no way.  People were on the ground telling me don't jump but the smoke quickly got to the point where all I could do is keep my head out the window to breathe and eventually I was going to be forced to jump.  I remained with my head out the window for a couple minutes and watched the fire escalate and then saw the water sprinkling out of the fire's unit :smile:

A few moments later firefighters came in, gave me a mask and saved my ass.

My apartment smells like shit and there's smoke residue everywhere, but fortunately none of my valuables are damaged.


The moments prior to the firefighters getting me out are fascinating to me in retrospect because I felt so calm.  I thought this could very well be my final moment and felt absolutely ok with jumping if I needed to, knowing I probably wouldn't have made it in one peace.  This was probably my closest dance with death and it makes me question death anxiety because I felt no anxiety.  I know I have symptoms of DA that are more than instinctual on a daily basis, but I don't understand why I wouldn't be worried in this situation. 

On another note, not going in the hallway was my best play, aside from not jumping.  A woman on my floor tried to use the stairs and passed out then burned for it. She's in critical condition but I wanna say she's ok.  Heresay was she would be ok but the news said she's in critical condition.


Anyways, I'm happy to still be around and pondering life with you all, but my apartment smells like shit.  They said it's safe to live here but the smell is quite horrible.  Can this be detrimental to my health if I stay?  I've been in my place now for a couple hours now and I can tolerate it, but I don't know if it's bad for my health.  When I blow my nose, my snots are black. I tell myself it's because I was breathing smoke in, but that was 12 hours ago and I showered and they are still black...This is my DA wanting to play :smirk:

But should I stay here tonight or go to a friends?  I really don't want to go to a friends and won't unless someone here tells my why I should.





Consider this: You were ready to jump, but only if the alternative was burning to death. Why? Because jumping was a very dangerous approach that no sane human would do without serious incentive. You may have felt calm but you were instinctively weighing the lesser of the unwanted. And even though jumping was better than burning, you clearly didn't want either to happen. That's why you didn't just go ahead and jump from yet another harmful situation, being in a room flooded with smoke! Your body knew that jumping was a bad idea even if your mind was saying "ready". Last resorts are last resorts for a reason. And it's not because they are appealing or calming. You don't try to avoid something until you have no choice due to it's calming effect. Just saying.

There was a study once that examined the tendency of people who, in life threatening situations, experience a sense of time slowing and their perceptions being heightened. Turns out that's all in our head. Our ability to perceive stimuli is no better and time remains unaltered. Despite that, in memory the events seem to occur in slow mode and incredible vibrancy.

What I'm getting at is that our mind seems very capable of, when pushed into a corner, altering our mental realty to make us feel more able, adept, and capable than we really are. And until put to the test, one may believe for instance that time does slow :shrug:



To me it sounds like what you're saying is the same thing DQ suggested..?:shrug:


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Re: My apartment caught fire today [Re: cez]
    #22147966 - 08/26/15 06:02 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

Probably :thumbup:
I didn't read his response but he's a smart cookie

Just giving my impressions in relation to DA. I don't really know, I've had some weird stuff happen over the course of my life that I can't fully explain in terms of DA either. When I met Icelander it was actually one of the topics of discussion. Memories that don't fit the DA schema.

Alternatively I can express on a more personal level the sensation of everything being alright even if it may not be. But all the same acting, directly, on that sensation of alrightness. In some instances it may end up getting you kill. It's hard to know except from direct experience. And so far in direct experience those moments have carried me onward and I have no idea where that sensation comes from.


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