[dreamcompiler]

It's quite real. This is why we try very hard (everything short of kidnapping) to take people to the hospital after a bad car wreck ("high energy mechanism of injury" is the term we use) even if they're walking around saying they're fine.

[kube-system]

Adrenaline is a heck of a thing. I know someone who similarly said they were fine and wanted to go home after being hit by a car. They had fractured vertebrae and their spinal cord would have likely suffered permanent damage if it wasn’t immobilized as soon as it was.

[the-peter]

The EMTs didn't try very hard when I was flipped by a drunk driver. I crawled out of my window and told the EMTs I just wanted to go home and they said 'ok'.