The much anticipated caving disasters episode.
love jumping on glowing mushrooms like trampolines to avoid bats flying in a sine wave motion
:ohnoes: Oh god oh fuck I'm not gonna like this one.
I already was like nope nope nope nope nope on that first slide.
So when I was in the Boy Scouts one of the dads organized a "cave exploring" trip, and I assumed it'd be like some luray caverns type BS where you just walk around some lighted trails and look at pretty rocks. No, we were doing actual spelunking. Like we all put fucking jumpsuits and head lamps on and had to crawl through muddy tunnels. I remember getting turned around on the way out and IDK if we took a different route but there was this section I hadn't remember going through where I had to get down and crawl through a three foot wedge in the rock, that then ended with having to scramble up a five foot rock wall where I barely had the clearance to stand up.
Yeah caving is intense.
i did something similar but for a summer geology explorer course! we had to do a crawl that looked like the picture on this post. and we had to scramble over this 2 foot wide chasm that went down like 50ft into the darkness, basically daisy chaining over it. i loved every second of it but i'm fucking weird when it comes to caves. i would live in caves if i could
Critical support for Comrade Fudd in his struggle against the tyrannical structure of junior military organizations.
Haven’t listened yet but I hope they touch on the Nutty Putty Cave
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave
I don't know, every time I hear of that, I get an actual feeling of terror.
God, I love spelunking. I feel like I have opposite claustrophobia; love tiny cramped spaces, hate large open rooms.
Kind of, though agoraphobia usually implies more fear of crowds or social spaces. Which, like, I don't like crowds, but I feel like the normal amount. High ceilinged large rooms literally give me vertigo and deep uncomfort though. I've seen it listed as Altocelarophobia, though I don't know ' how 'real' that is. Also, I don't know if its quite a full 'phobia' for me, as I can certainly bear it, though I absolutely choose to avoid it if possible.
But like, with caving and stuff, I quite like the feeling of being in small confined spaces. There's a cave nearish to me that's private, but allows small groups in sometimes, that has a slide whose entrance is 20 inches wide and 10 inches tall. You have to take your helmet off, and have arms fully forward, pushing the helmet in from of you for light, to get through the pass. And I find it super fun and enjoyable, was surprised when the rest of the group found it extremely nerve wracking. But it seems like that's generally a normal response.
Agoraphobia is actually an anxiety/panic disorder, you associate attacks with the places they happened and it slowly narrows down the number of places you feel safe. Naturally crowded or unsheltered spaces get written off first because of the heightened sense of exposure/vulnerability there.
Kind of, though agoraphobia usually implies more fear of crowds or social spaces
While the literal meaning of agoraphobia is "fear of public spaces" (with reference to the Ancient Greek 'agora'), that's a misunderstanding of its actual nature. NephewAlphaBravo is correct that agoraphobia is related to a fear of things that you associate with panic/anxiety attacks. At its worst, it can become a crippling fear of leaving safe spaces, resulting in the refusal to 'go outdoors' - insofar as there is an implicit relationship with going outdoors and experiencing panic. Most people with agoraphobia are not total shut-ins (or at least we weren't until reality started enabling our worst tendencies in 2020), but they will tend to avoid specific potential scenarios they associate with panic.
When I was initially diagnosed, I had no problem walking to and from work (with big-ol fuck off headphones on so that no one could interact with me), going to public places with a friend I could depend on to serve as a screen between me and the world, or performing on stage. I just had a crippling fear of being trapped alone in a crowd or being stuck on an airplane or being forced to interact with someone I found scary (generally for bad reasons) in a situation where it would be rude to not interact. Eventually, the workplace itself became a challenge for me because I came to associate it with social anxiety and mistreatment, but that came far after I'd already been diagnosed as fairly severely agoraphobic.
What's this shit about mysterious lights and siren voices and doppelgangers in caves, is that a reference to something?
Me going into the episode:
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Me after the episode
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