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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

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As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

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adulthood is just a never-ending cycle of So You Think You Can Wait Another Day To Do Your Laundry

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

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queen of the world to me

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sometimes when i post about a supernatural scene i really like it'll break containment and people in the notes will be like omg this is supernatural??? no way

and like. i get that most people on this website now associate spn with the superhell meme and the destiel confession and all that so this might be a little hard to believe but. this was a good show once

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#what would it mean for my hyperfixation to find my blog #the content creators? the fictional characters? #either way. honestly either's fine i don't engage with anything here

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Thinking about when CG was used exactly one time in the entirety of spongebobs pre-movie 3 season run

Like, they could’ve easily just had him instantaneously burst through the wall and get roughly the same joke across, but the fact the writers wanted him to slowly push through the wall like that SO BADLY that they went out of their way to implement the cg effect to do so is so fucking funny to me fndmmsmsms

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#sharp long nails!!!! #lia says “leaves” but i say hush you don't exist anymore so you don't get an opinion

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Me when I use the blender that makes 50% of all turtles feel immeasurable pain

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#am writing* #intermittently working on one (i was working on it fairly frequently for a month or so and then stopped when that hyperfixation died) #and i've been very constantly working on another for the past five months #it's at 20k words now #i had a revelation about a very important thing i definitely should have realized a long time ago earlier today. #but i've never posted anything cause i don't write in order so i have to finish the Whole Thing before i can post anything #and i'm not very good at finishing things. or having interests last long enough to finish things.

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i should have fucking picked chemistry

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders

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this has probably been done before but idc I needed to get this off my system (original post)

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Half life