Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts

4/28/09

Study : Adrenaline Rush and Addiction


To understand what an adrenaline addict is, you have to know what the symptoms are. Because it is an addiction and it leads to cravings, but unlike other natural drugs the withdrawal symptoms are less obvious, but still present.
Most people don’t realise that the effects of adrenaline aren’t found doing an activity, its found prior to doing something, as that’s when the adrenaline starts to build up.Doing the activity dissipates the chemicals.
If a rush of adrenaline is frequent enough, everyday day, week, month, the body can (and does) memorise this ‘feeling’ with its own body clock, memories of surroundings and other similar references (from our 5 senses) and can trigger the release a lot earlier than required. A normal build up, can occur anywhere between ~0-15 mins before an activity. This will be uncontrollable at first and may take many months of frequency before the signs are obvious. Eventually, you can get to the stage where you can trigger the effect by thinking about the activity in any situation. Now I know this isn’t showing the effects of an addiction, its merely showing how the cause can lead to the effect and the recognition of how it can be summoned with thought.

Study : Adrenaline Rush and Slow Motion



It seems that in certain dangerous situations, perception of time goes into slow motion, such that a person is aware of everything happening at a different rate if time than what is normal. People have experienced this when involved in a car accident, when falling from a tree or similar event where there is a time between the beginning and ending of the accident ,impact or threat.

Many people, including myself have experienced time in slow motion. On the other hand, there are cases where you would expect it to be mentioned, but nothing is said about it.

The sensing of time and the perception of how fast it goes is an area that has not been studied very much. In fact, time itself is difficult to study. Some theories say that time is the 4th dimension (maybe crazy,but who knows?).
It is well known that time seems to go faster when a person is having fun or when the person gets older. This could be explained by the fact that the person is not paying that much attention to time. Likewise, during an accident, the person's concentration on what is unfolding is great, thus making the perception of time slow down.
The most plausible explanation would be that the "slowing down of time" is caused by something like the adrenaline in your body suddenly rushing to help you try to control your fall.But in fact,I really think only the perception is altered.Present explanations are not completely satisfying.And yes,that's Jason Statham in Crank (2006).