[smacktoward]

It's like riding a roller coaster or doing a bungee jump -- you know intellectually that you're strapped in tight and therefore safe; but your lizard brain, the part that operates at a deep subconscious level, doesn't get that message, so it's still scary and/or thrilling.

[Retra]

That's great, but watching someone else ride a roller coaster doesn't communicate that feeling at all.