24 of the Most Intense Experiences People Have Been Through

‘Nice, , on the promenade... July 14, 2016’
24 of the Most Intense Experiences People Have Been Through

There are plenty of AskReddit threads asking for examples of a certain a certain emotion, but when you felt the most emotion, period.

Euphoric, devastating, peaceful, enraged, even downright confused are all potential competitors. What qualifies the tales in this thread is just that the feeling was completely overwhelming. Times an experience was simply more than our poor amygdala was built to handle. 

Find out what pushed the limits of these Redditors’ emotional capacity with the stories below.

aaareed . 8y ago . Edited 8y ago Finding out that I had unknowingly been friends with my birth father for years
. 8y ago Edited 8y ago Counter terrorist operation in Tbilisi Georgia a few weeks ago happened in the building where I live. 16 hours of random explosions and gunshots while waiting to be evacuated from the building
8y ago Edited 8y ago 3 years ago I was bitten and envenomated by a King Brown on a remote site. I had effects from the venom but worse effects from the anti-venom, including temporary blindness. It took 2 years for my organs and muscles to recover.
8y ago Had my tonsils out when I was a kid. Was living with my dad at the time, but one particular night a couple days after, I really wanted to take a bath, and my mom had a big tub, so I went one night to stay with her for a few days. The next morning, my throat started bleeding heavily. Well my step dad worked second shift so he was home and drove me to the hospital. Wound up serving a vein before I got there. Was violently vomiting blood. They had to stick a hot iron
Setsunaela 8y ago Edited 8y ago Having a doctor who assumed someone had spoken to me about it have a glance at my chart when I was in the hospital for low red blood counts, and say to me well you have cancer so that's probably why No one had said anything to me about cancer. Everyone kept telling me my bone marrow biopsy was inconclusive because of poor quality. That was how I found out. A careless, offhand, well, duh sort of comment. I felt like the floor had disappeared beneath me. The rush of emotions I felt was
wobblypop44 . 8y ago Had my keys stolen which started a mini riot at the max security juvenile detention center | worked at.
RobertYoloMugabe2k12 8y ago Edited 8y ago My best friend (he was my cousin) ((may aswell have been my brother)) got hit by a bus in London whilst listening to music on his iPod a couple of years ago and the bus driver essentially crushed him to death under the front left wheel by lowering the enger platform instead of raising it. I was at work and I got a call to get to London ASAP and to see half of his skull caved in and subsequently watch him die was the most intense and harrowing experience of my life. I
SailedTheSevenSeas . 8y ago I was working on a containership going from West Coast US to Japan. We got stuck in between two low pressure systems for 3 days. | experienced seas 40-60 ft. Never in my life have ever felt so small
hakoMike 8y ago Meningitis. Pain so intense you have a moment of panic just before each heartbeat because you know how bad your head will hurt during it. Only time I've experienced fever hallucinations... eyes open I was in the hospital. Eyes closed I was somewhere else. Other times eyes closed I could still see the hospital room but there was a girl with short hair sitting in a chair watching me. They didn't want to give me a foley bag for whatever reason so every time I went to the bathroom (which was a lot with the IV) I
TwistedCockatoo 8y ago On Saturday I was rafting in grade 5 rapids in New Zealand. We flipped and i got thrown into a recirculation hole. I was being forced underwater with the power of a river with nowhere to get out. I tumbled around like a washing machine for about 30 seconds (seemed like a lifetime), eventually and luckily a thrust of water popped me out of the hole and into the next rapid. I got into calmer water with everyone already safe on the bank watching on in terror hoping I was alright.
emmaton 8y ago Discovering that my quiet and chilled out 6 day old baby girl was actually dying and needed emergency open heart surgery. Her condition had not been picked up and we were blissfully unaware. I'll always be so grateful to the health visitor who came to see us on day 6 and expressed her concerns. Even then, we were expecting a wasted trip to the hospital. Ended up in the front of an ambulance stopping traffic. She's 2 now and full of beans.
I was a daredevil as a child, and loved being one. I once jumped a shoddy huffy bike off a pretty large ramp when I was 12 years old. When I landed, the front fork snapped where it es through the front of the frame. The tire caused the broken fork to bounce up toward my stomach, ripping a 4 inch gash across my stomach. The intensity struck after I landed and momentarily blacked out. When I regained vision, I got up off the ground via my hands a knees. When I looked down, my lower intestines were hanging outside
Avamedic 8y ago Called to a reported house fire, neighbor states they hear screaming and saw smoke/flames. This is farm country at ЗАМ, Captain and I hopped barbwire fences as we frantically raced to this farmhouse to see what happened - yep, goats. The farmer simply approached us and said howdy boys, problem? When asked about the screaming and fire, he said he had a brush pile burning and that my goats needed a milkin. Learned how closely goats and people sounded the same. Captain shook his head as we talked back to the engine and said to never mention this back
matt_on_the_internet . 8y ago Having a knife held to my throat by an incredibly drunk friend who got mad at me about a game of kill, marry, fuck around a campfire. I was wasted and he was wasted (and obviously kind of insane) and for some reason my reaction was to yell, What, you're gonna kill me? Do it! Do it! You won't do it! I fucking dare you! at the top of my lungs.
Tarpo76 8y ago Spending 3 days in palliative care with almost all my family watching my Dad slowly die. We laughed and told stories all while he lay there sleeping. There was so much love and comion in that room that when he finally did slip away it was as sad that we were losing the chance to spend time together in that tiny cramped room. I'll never forget watching his body die but I also won't ever forget sitting on the floor in the room eating sandwiches and stealing a little bit from a flask of vodka that someone
BrightHausJon 8y ago Edited 8y ago Once fractured my left nut riding an ATV in Pismo Edit: that's the phrase the doc used. Went off a razorback at full speed and went over the ATV which landed on just my left nut. Somehow also broke my arm which didn't get noticed - or felt - for several minutes. Got surgery to remove the damaged tissue but couldn't go under because I'd eaten shortly beforehand. Oh, and this was all the day before my 21st birthday too.
Mozzykins . 8y ago Driving home at night and seeing another driver speeding head on towards me at 65 mph. Swerved out of the way just in time, no collision, stayed on the road, no damage whatsoever. Heart rate would not come down for hours.
crackbaby123 . 8y ago Hunger. Not like i skipped lunch hunger. But having no food while backpacking for 5 days. You become feverish and euphoric at the same time and stressfully obsessed about food. Your lizard brain takes full control. I ate a lot of bugs. Lost all of my body fat/muscle. Would not recommend.
laskdfe . 8y ago Nice, , on the promenade... July 14th 2016. Never before that day did I decide which direction to move based on where I thought bullets would be least likely to be.
PancakeQueen13 a 8y ago Edited 8y ago Honestly? having a 300lb filing cabinet fall and pin me against the wall across my collar bone. | couldn't lift it off me and could feel it slowly crushing my air space for ten minutes until a co-worker found me (said filing cabinet was in a concrete vault in the basement with zero sound travel). It happened the day after I went skydiving and my thoughts were I'm going to die here, crushed by a filing cabinet.
buttstuff311 8y ago In March of this year, I still had quite the problem with оху. One weekend when my two room mates were going to be gone I had gotten my myself 10 30 mg oxys and was going to have a great day/night of video games and relax. After sniffing 4 of them I evidently overdosed and ed out. I later found out that they were pressed fentanyl pills...lwoke up 18 hours later covered in my own vomit and sweat and feces. No one found me because the people I lived with we're gone. | very easily could
vikingcock . 8y ago War was kinda intense. When it wasnt mind-numbingly boring staring into the desert for 12 hours.
. 8y ago Edited 8y ago My emergency С section. I felt so sick from the meds, and could do nothing but lay there and accept my fate. I could feel the pressure of being cut open and dug into. Then I felt major things being wiggled around and plop it felt like one of those dead whales on the beach exploding! My baby was out of me and wailing :) then, he was plopped on my chest looking pissed off.
salocin93 8y ago Edited 8y ago First, a little backstory. I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA), a genetic disease that slowly wastes away your motor neurons. I have never walked and use a wheel chair to get around. About a year ago, the first ever treatment for SMA, Spinraza was fast-tracked by the FDA out of the trial phase and made available to the public. The most intense experience of my life has to be laying on a hospital bed, receiving my first dose of the drug and feeling a deep sense of hope for the first time in a very

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

?