I have spent 2 minutes at -110°C / -166°F wearing only slippers, a beanie, mittens and a swimming suit.
I visited the DMZ between N. and S.Korea in 2014.
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Ooops! 
Full sentence
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Super cold treatment / cryotherapy.
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I love it! Where did you enjoy a cryogenic chamber? falls man kryokammer so übersetzt?
I walked the sky walk at the Grand Canyon which is nearly 1 mile high and has a glass floor, only @Ravikamor was there I would of swore I imagined it
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When we were kids in school, in art class they had this wire and we would clip the wire and make it sharp and shoot It at each other with rubber bands, I shot one at a friend and it went right through his cheek. Scariest thing ever
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What??? Ouch! That’s crazy
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One thing I experienced was near death kind of, I was at a party when I was 16 on my brand new snowmobile. We went to a road and me and two other friends parked are sleds and I parked in the middle and shut my sled off. Well one person was flying at us doing like 85 and hit me head on, I still remember it like yesterday it felt like a train was coming at me and all I remember was seeing this big white light. I woke up pretty quick, head was bleeding everywhere. I had a full bag of Doritos stuffed Inside my jacket that vanished into thing air after the collision.
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I am not, at all, familiar, with this saying. I am from the U.S. & do not have children but since I read it here yesterday & now again today it’s blowing my mind. Is it a combination of Nitrous Oxide & Oxygen? Like at the dentist? Do you wear a mask while you’re in labor? What if your labor is super long? You don’t have to explain it all, just really interesting how different childbirth can be for each person.
I love this thread.
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The opportunity to be in the photographers pit at concerts 
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yeah it’s that same kind of gas… Nitrous oxide mixed with oxygen. But you don’t where the mask the whole time. I just took a couple of puffs of it to help take the edge off the pain because I opted for no other drugs. I wanted to have a completely natural childbirth…oh how naive I was🤣
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I’ve experienced at age 18 my mom comes home from a weekend of fun with friends married to someone I hadn’t met.
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My car ran hot on the coldest day of the year.
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Only 5% of people on the planet have there body reject an implant from a dentist. My body not only rejected my implant it simply pushed it right out of my gums. Fun times!
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I seem to have a habit of bumping in to celebrities.
John C. Reilly opened the door for me at Putple Cafe in Seattle. He said HI and asked how I was doing.
I bumped into Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam fame on the street in Seattle.
Niel Degrasse Tyson literally bumped into my daughter, who was standing next to me at a hotel in Seattle. He never apologized for running into her.
I ran into Art Alexakis while wondering the halls of Key Arena. He asked to take a picture with me, thought that was weird, but ok.
Marshawn Lynch was on my flight from Detroit to Seattle. I said hey as I passed him.
Met Craig Robinson in Vegas. He was sitting in front of me at Michael Jackson One show.
This was the only pic I got from any of these encounters. (Edited my wide and kids for privacy)
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It is so strange how different things are, I find it fascinating too.
Yes, we have it from the moment they let you on the ward (NHS here so they are always trying to send you home until active labour - love our NHS but most women I know have not had a great labour experience due to understaffing)
You have it through a mouth piece and are supposed to use it through contractions. It doesn’t do much to be honest. I had a long labour (39 hours both times) and had it from about 12 hours onwards. And through the examination after, they had to wrestle it off me 
Next level drug here is morphine which I had and loved as it let me sleep through the middle bit. My husband said I was laying there ‘asleep’ and he would know I had a contraction as suddenly I would start puffing the gas and air 
And finally epidural (not that common unless having caesaerean).
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Just seen you already answered, and a lot more succinctly than my waffle Can you tell labour is still something that makes me shudder??
Wow okay this won’t be as cool or fun as some others, but I have sat in a court room as a child and testified before a judge against the man who abused me–who was also in the courtroom looking at me while I did so.
I have also had a job where I bred mice for laboratory experiments and was the one who was forced to kill them when the labs were done with them.
most of my unique experiences are very “omg, wtf” things. Luckily I have a good sense of humor…
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That is awful! I am so sorry you had to go through that. Thank goodness times have moved on.
Glad you have kept a sense of humour about it.
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The first time I ever fished on the ocean a massive rogue wave popped up and capsized our boat. There were two of them. The first one broke just after it passed under us. The second one crushed us. I treaded water for twenty minutes without a survival suit or a life jacket and was rescued by another fisherman who was crazy enough to come save us.
The coast guard picked us up from his boat. We were treated for hypothermia I got to ride in one of these
3 of us. We all survived. Two of us went back the following weekend.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. I could list some other things, but I don’t want to bring the thread down.
But really, the thing is that what someone else did to me doesn’t have to define me. Putting the mice down was kind of hard for me. I raised them from babies 
But I guess the ability to disassociate came in handy (dark humor inserted).
I think maybe it’s okay that I haven’t had amazingly cool unique experiences because these days I get to enjoy a happy mundane life. 
@JasonFisher wow. That is intense. I have always been terrified of the ocean (despite living in the middle of a desert!), and yet it’s beauty continues to captivate me. Glad you’re okay!
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