| Author | Message | ||
     Gregtonn |
It may seem an odd question but, how many here have never been unconscious throughout your lifetime? I expect there will be multiple definitions, but I find it fascinating. Lapses in memory aside, I have not.  G | ||
| Fast1075 |
I have been out a few times...crashed my bicycle racing a buddy down a loooooong downhill....was out two days (I was 10 years old)....5 or 6 times from crashing while racing.....and once from a fist fight. | ||
| Jonzin |
Twice that I know of. Once while rough housing with a friend in high school...I tried to drop out of a full Nelson but my buddy was strong enough to catch me an sink it in. The second time my wife knocked me out..lol... I woke up because I thought she was having a bad dream because she was thrashing around a bit. Turns out she was tangled in the blankets and was trying to pull free. Apparently, I had rolled over onto the blankets - I raised up to check on her at the same time she was gave a mighty tug on the blankets and she caught me square in the jaw. We both thought it was a dream until we compared stories in the morning.  | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
I was unconscious last night. And for the previous 25,660 nights, more or less. The only time that I can remember being "knocked out" was when I was in a moto cross race in New England in the sixties. We called them "scrambles" back in the day. Apparently I took a header in the middle of the race whilst lying third. I remounted, and quite by coincidence, I was still in third place, only a lap down. Things were rather informal back then, I think I may have been awarded the third place trophy. I did not find out till later that my temporary absence had not be noted by the scorers, and I did not realize it myself, until a friend explained it to me later.  | ||
| Kyrocket |
LOL Top this. I was 18 years old, it was the summer between my senior year of high school and college, my parents had gone camping and I was getting ready for a date. I had just got out of the shower and had the stereo blasting in my bedroom. The phone rang so I ran out of the bathroom to turn the stereo down (without a stitch of clothes on, I was home alone after all) When I came out of the bedroom and rounded the corner (with hard wood floors) my feet flew out from under me and I came to after who knows how long in a puddle of blood about 12 inches across. Split my temple wide open. Closed it the best I could and held it shut with a band aid. For a week, every time I sneezed it felt like the top of my head would explode. I never did find out who called. That was before caller ID. I was racing to pick up the rotary. | ||
| Brumbear |
Quite a few times in fights,sports, crashes and accidents through the years. Only one was I out for any extended period of time though I was working alone and I was running across the yard to answer the phone ( no cell phones back then) I had left a set of forks on a forklift up in the air didn't see em BLOTTO next thing I knew I opened my eyes was staring at the sky and all the work noises had kind of quieted down it was late afternoon and I had and still have no idea how long I was out it was awhile though. I felt punchy for about a week after that and got bad ass headaches for awhile too. | ||
| Geforce |
Multiple times. I have recorded in my medical records around 6 times that I have been knocked out cold after a parachute landing fall with full combat equipment due to high winds. The best knocked out cold whilst mid air happened during a Rough Terrain jump where my body decided to swing up and through my risers, I awoke about 450 feet above the tree line, running with the wind and my steering was reversed. I managed to guide the MC1-1D into the wind before landing but I didn't manage to get the chute hung up in the trees like we are supposed to... so I ended up falling out of the canopy and crashing into the ground before I could rappel down properly. I don't remember if I was knocked out on that landing, just remember being really pissed off. Once due to the blast of a nearby detonating RPG. Once due to 60 Kg of High Explosives whilst occupying the driver's seat of a M114 which was obliterated. Multiple times during combatives until I finally learned that tapping out was "ok". Being knocked out isn't fun. Just my opinion though. | ||
| Court |
Just out of curiosity . . let's extend the parameters . . . how many have been without pulse or respiration and had the needle of adrenalin shoved through the chest into the old ticker? I think a pal holds the record . . . | ||
| Ratbuell |
Dunno if I got the adrenaline shot...but apparently I didn't survive the whole helicopter ride in '08. I caught the beginning and the end, but missed part of the middle. Thank God for a good flight crew. | ||
| Geforce |
Erik had a close encounter like this didn't he? | ||
| Redefine420 |
My second time snowboarding I decided I was good enough to launch off an 8' ramp. I woke up on a stretcher being towed by a snowmobile. At the first aid cabin they asked me who Monica was to see if I was all there. This was when the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski sex stuff was all over the news. The worst part was the ice burn/scrapes that covered the whole left side of my face. On the other side of things, I knocked someone out in a fist fight years ago. It took a long time to wake the guy up. It scared me so much that I still think about that night whenever I feel like punching someone. It's a good deterrent. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
I have a thick skull... just ask my wife... Never been "knocked out" but I have seen the flashbulb go off in my head many times while boxing, motorcycle racing get offs, beer bottles up side the head along with a hoe handle (that hurt) Maybe I should have tried harder... Everclear does it every time... but that doesn't count | ||
| Court |
>>>Erik had a close encounter like this didn't he? Multiple . . . and not THAT long ago. If folks only knew what their bikes went through before someone says "okay". He's all grown up now.  | ||
| Thumper74 |
I blacked out on my Harley about 4 years ago now and I wasn't drunk. I don't remember what happened, when I came to, I was barreling down on the rear end of a semi in a hurry. I got checked out at the doctor after I told him what happened and had no health problems. Two years later, I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes, so I wonder if I had low blood sugar at the time... I was knocked out short term in a low speed highside the first time I rode a bike. | ||
| Crusty |
Have You Ever Been Unconscious Yes. | ||
| Sifo |
I got knocked out cold mountain biking. Went over the bars head first into a tree. Woke up look up at all the folks I was riding with bent over me wondering what to do. I had to have been out for a while because the guy I was following had also come back and was bent over me when I woke. When I was about 12 my brother picked me up on his shoulder and just drove me into the ground with his shoulder right in my diaphragm. I got up and staggered a few steps before getting tunnel vision quickly blacking out. I remember it going dark right before hitting the ground, then nothing. Also been out twice for surgeries for other mountain bike incidents.  | ||
| 99buellx1 |
Twice. Road crash on my X1, woke in the middle of the road in a pool of blood from my face. Track crash on same X1, was out for a bit as my friend that was riding behind me made another lap to get back to me, and he is the first person I remember when I came to. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Yup, just like Jon, once a day more or less. Got knocked out once when I T-boned a car on a Suzi TS250, (his fault) | ||
| Ducxl |
Knocked out once.At age 12/w new mini-bike crashed and awakened in the hospital.The disorientation made me puke. last Summer MADE unconscious to debride my arm of glass/road debris.Then again a week later for skin grafting.My friends all joked that with my motorcycles they never expected i'd LAY DOWN(roll over) my truck! | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Yep, The details are sketchy and memory is nil. But by all accounts, I was a hell of a handfull. Thorazine is not your friend. DAMHIK | ||
| Whisperstealth |
More than a few times. Doing / during different times. The helicopter ride was the worst, or so I've been told. Was in and out a few times during that whole ordeal. Never had the "Pulp Fiction" needle dropped on me though. | ||
| Jaimec |
Only during my recent colonoscopy. You "old guys" know what I mean. You "young guys," you'll know what I mean soon enough. | ||
| Hammer71 |
Just out of curiosity . . let's extend the parameters . . . how many have been without pulse or respiration and had the needle of adrenalin shoved through the chest into the old ticker? Not sure exactly what or how but when I was 10 I discovered I was allergic to bees. Long story short, Willie Mays style catch, up over the fence and landed on a hive of hornets. From what Im told my lifeless ass was pumped with enough epinephrine to kill a horse. worst part was not being able to breathe and then watching the world go dark. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Had a stroke when I was 19, woke up in the hospital several days later with no recollection... does that count? | ||
| Cityxslicker |
got bit by camel spiders, had an allergic reaction and had the most glorious two week vacation. Full of exotic foreign women, money, cars, gambling, raving, night club, sexual escapades.... and then they woke me up. sun of a biatch this was the second time I was out, not looking for a third. | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
From 1989 - 1992 | ||
| Ourdee |
Congestive heart failure in 2000 erased a lot of memories from 40 years. Does that count? No shot in the chest, but the one in the cat lab was interesting. | ||
| Whistler |
Knocked out three times. Two of the three were followed by a day or so of amnesia. | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Got walloped in the right eyeball by a hockey puck when I was walking up a hill next to an outdoor rink at age 12. Blam, saw stars, then on the ground. When I came to, the nicest state trooper, a classmates dad, took me home, made sure I got to the E.R., etc. I prefer watching hockey games on t.v. now. | ||
| Spdrxb |
Yeah, I was about 10years old, went sledding in the woods on one of those flying saucers. Big mistake, I was the first one down spinning along the way,I ended up backwards and leaned the wrong way. I remember looking up the hill and seeing a look of fear on my friends faces. I woke up 3 hours later in a hospital bed with my mom crying over me. I cant remember what degree it was but doc said I had a concussion and I spent the rest of the day there for observation. My friends later told me that I hit the tree head on literally. They hoofed me out on a flat sled used as a stretcher. |
