Thread: Tell me about how it feels to faint

It happened to me once as well.

I was getting blood drawn and I stood up and felt a little ill. It wasn't the sight of blood that made me feel faint. I'm very small, so perhaps it was just a bit too much for me.

Anyways, my mother was getting blood drawn at the time as well and I told her that I needed to sit down.

That's the last thing I remember.

According to her, I started staring into space with my eyes open and unresponsive. My eyes rolled back into my head and I started shaking violently.

Like Dianeva said, I also remember dreaming during this period. I remember having this horrible nightmare and all I could do was scream at the top of my lungs as I felt as if I was being ripped apart.

The weirdest part was waking up. Dianeva also described this completely perfectly...Doctors were surrounding me and it felt as if I had just tuned into a new television program or something. It was really strange.

I was vomiting for the rest of the day.

Thanks everyone, interesting stories

Originally Posted by Dianeva

From what? A car? Helicopter?

Car ride. I already started feeling different when I hit Denver (Mile High City). After you hit Denver, to where I live, in 70 miles you go up twice the elevation. So yeah.

think the closest i came to fainting was actually getting tattooed... it was a fairly large area getting pounded on pretty quick (doing outline work/thick lines). i was mentally able to tolerate the pain fine, but my body was freaking out and started to go into shock. i had to stop for a break because i felt incredibly light-headed. i think i would've passed out if he hadn't stopped. then after that initial shock i was fine for the rest of the piece, 4 hours worth.

sometimes i get the thing where when i stand up my vision fades to black for a couple seconds. i read about that a while ago, forget what why it happens...

Originally Posted by snoop

Everyone else is right, it's nothing special. I've only nearly fainted, and just once. What happened was my vision started getting darker and muddier, and then my vision started to close off from the outside edges of my view toward the center. Essentially you get tunnel vision and eventually you don't see anything. I'm guessing shortly after this you wake up on the floor or wherever it is you fainted at.

So people do black out. I thought it wasn't possible. Since my near fainting experiences are always whiting out.

Hmm...well I was really wasted and don't remember much of it. I remember I was dancing, jumping up and down then sliding off an armchair...Everything felt so good and surreal but the next thing I know, I wake up in a hospital bed with my parents and brother surrounding me.

Recently fainted in a hospital bed.

1) vision starts to do something weird... I wouldn't say 'blur' exactly, but rather something like.. You know how if you close your eyes really hard you can see all these weird shapes and patterns and colors flashing about? That starts happening gradually, so it's more of a cross between blur and a weird ass stereotypical LSD trippy thing. Also: ears start ringing, muscle control goes out the window gradually (these things happen simultaneously and gradually, like only a few seconds or so), last thing I thought was probably 'awww f*ck'
2) a bunch of ??? (never noticed this myself as I was unconscious, but in my case all my muscles spasmed.. which made for a weird 'welcome back' later.. everyone was like 'dude, that was scary' and I had no idea what they were talking about.. absolutely no idea)
3) open eyes, lift up heavy head, go 'oh... right... I was in the hospital'

May have already been said, I'll say it anyways, I don't think there's a "safe" way to force faint. Fainting means there's something wrong with your head (or something happened) You're not missing anything, at all, literally. It's just like sleep, black.

Earlier this year I was hit by a car, it was going pretty slow so I just tumbled and hit my head on the curb. Everything was black, woke up on the grass with a killer headache. Later found out I got a concussion.

faint? I hate it I'm at work right now and I'm fainting with dysmenorrhea. I know it's very serious like you've been shot in your head but it really hurts! Urghhhhh........!