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I know runners high. But running isn't(wasn't) my main thing, that would be bicycling. Anyway, long ago I had a very broken upper arm which made running unenjoyable. At the time I had a prescription for time released/retarded Tramadolhydrochloride which is a mild Opioid, not something like Fentanyl, or such. One day I felt the urge to run and popped a pill in preparation, which kicks in after about half an hour. Where kicks in means pain is gone like a switch is thrown, and not much else, maybe a feeling of relaxation, but that may have been just because the pain was gone? So I've been ready, and then a thunderstorm started. That was unexpected, because the weather was fine, and then suddenly it wasn't anymore. Whatever, didn't want to have taken the pill for nothing, and went out to run in spite of the rain. Along one side of the mountains forming a valley, on a path through a pine forest above the train tracks curving along the mountain above the little valley. Soaked, but so what? It was warm summer rain. I could see down to the train tracks, between 50 to 150meters away(that varied) And then the lightnings really started. It came to mind that it wouldn't be a good idea to be out there, so exposed, during that much lightning, maybe even suicidal. I coldly calculated that all the trees there made much better lightning rods than me, and ran on. While doing that I saw dozens of lightnings hitting the tracks
and their electrification/overhead wire and masts, again and again. Like in some crazy movie-fx/CGI. Because I perceived it in slow motion, white-blue-violet-purple colored, branching apart, similar to the roots of a tree, but not. And the thundering, even the echoes giving you light full body slaps. While on the usual runners high, feeling light, flying. This went on for maybe 10km over half an hour, then I had to turn back because end of way. Well, not exactly, but no more forest, and I don't like to run in urban areas between housing and traffic. So, for me the kind of drugs I took just intensified that and I'd agree with you regarding the similarity of experience. But there are other drugs working differently, there are other people reacting different to some(or all?) drugs than others, and there are (supposedly?) different 'neuro-architectures' ('wiring of the brain') resulting in different sensibilities on a spectrum/scale from something vague to something vague :-) |