Oh, my, someone else whose "fear of heights" is really more of a "fear of legs giving out."
I'm more than OK with flying, hot-air ballooning and riding ski lifts or gondolas high up mountainsides - I actively love those things. Yet I get vertigo when standing more than a foot or so off the ground, and damned near have a panic attack if I have to walk up stairways I can see through (as in fire escapes, etc.)
And ditto to Rivka's expected pain-versus-sudden pain response. I hardly even notice the pretty much constant pain of sciatica any more, but but the sudden jolt of a stubbed toe or whacked elbow will almost make me puke.
(As for BDSM pain, my play partner recently observed that, once in a while, zie'll accidentally hurt zirself and find zirself wondering, "why don't I *like* this?" I figure it's all in the mental associations...)
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Whole lotta *seebling* going on
Date: 2003-01-28 03:04 pm (UTC)I'm more than OK with flying, hot-air ballooning and riding ski lifts or gondolas high up mountainsides - I actively love those things. Yet I get vertigo when standing more than a foot or so off the ground, and damned near have a panic attack if I have to walk up stairways I can see through (as in fire escapes, etc.)
And ditto to Rivka's expected pain-versus-sudden pain response. I hardly even notice the pretty much constant pain of sciatica any more, but but the sudden jolt of a stubbed toe or whacked elbow will almost make me puke.
(As for BDSM pain, my play partner recently observed that, once in a while, zie'll accidentally hurt zirself and find zirself wondering, "why don't I *like* this?" I figure it's all in the mental associations...)