Does anyone else get the irrational desire to jump from high places?

[More Than A Feeling]

Sometimes when I look down from very high places, I get the split second irrational desire to jump. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Do I have a subconscious desire for suicide or something? Maybe I am just curious to experience it.

[Scooter24]

1. Only when I'm skydiving :)

other than that, I usually stay away from edges..hehe

[enigmatic]

2. When I'm forced to watch Pauly Shore films. yes...

Seriously, I've had that when I am in a High-Rise on one of the upper-floors; very unnerving..

[Tom Kitten]

3. Not at all

You describe the stuff of my nightmares...I actually slipped and fell off a cliff once (I have an eyewitness, it was about a thirty foot freefall)...fortunately I fell between two boulders into a pool of water and didn't get hurt...

I've always had recurring dreams about clinging to the edge of a huge skyscraper and looking down with the wind buffeting me...

911 did not help at all...

[BikeWriter]

4. That you haven't done it shows some good sense...

[REP]

5. Yup.

I'm extremely acrophobic, and the urge to jump is overwhelming. Not to commit suicide, but to end the terror. Hard to explain to someone who's not acrophobic.

[Jamastiene]

6. Yes

I do sometimes, for unexplainable reasons. I have always wanted to do the thing where you strap on the wing-like things and jump from tall places, but never have had any urge to to the plane jumping bit or bungee jumping. I think the thing I want to do is called hang gliding. As a matter of fact, I'd probably shit myself if I did either of those other two things. Aside from that, I almost have jumped a few times and cannot explain why. It seems like it would be fun to free fall at least until I landed.

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. I used to read a zine called Cometbus..

And the guy (Aaron Cometbus) had the same feeling when he would visit Portland. Portland is a town of bridges. And Aaron was the drummer for Crimpshrine. And they rule..

http://www.zinebook.com/interv/comet.html

I have that zine in one of these boxes. Maybe I should hunt it down and scan it.

[RebelOne]

8. Yes, but I cured that by taking up skydiving. n/t