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• Elderly Cynic commented on Busy busy busy
  Adrenaline. Seriously....
• Martin commented on Busy busy busy
  ...agreed, and we're talking fight-or-flight adrenalin surge, not just "a bit exciting"; even then, the effect can be marginal. I've been scared / excited plenty of times, only felt the significant effect a few times - and it went away very quickly. (The rest of the time, your reactions are slightly faster, your senses are slightly sharper, your pulse is raised, your skin may whiten as the capillaries constrict to reduce any blood loss; there's a slightly metallic taste in your mouth, a lack of saliva, and butterflies in your stomach as the body redirects energies away from digestion and...
• Elderly Cynic commented on Busy busy busy
  Plus it has considerable health risks, and many people go straight into shock when they come down from it. I believe that adrelanin pens have been investigated for military use and found to be, er, counterproductive....
• Bill Arnold commented on Busy busy busy
  Could be very useful when sketching moving objects. Any hints on how to induce the effect? None of my art books mention it. Interesting question. Note that this effect can be/would be(/is?) weaponized. Much of the discussion that a search will find is combat-related. This is disturbing to me. So, as EC and Martin say, full tachypsychia is demonstrably (if not reliably) induced by an epinephrine dump. There are side effects that suck, notably tachycardia. If you go down the list of side effects in the wikipedia article, you'll notice that some are not strictly necessary unless one needs to...
• dpb commented on Busy busy busy
  I can confirm part of this. I have had proper time slowing down shit hitting fan moments twice when out climbing things. On both occasions memories are very vivid & subjective time slowed but I don't think my actual reactions improved much. It feels more as though the level of detail increased resulting in recall taking longer. On both occasions I was able to do impossible things for a few minutes, function for as long as necessary to get out of trouble and then spend significant amounts of time as a complete vegetable. Not a lot of fun if the...