Method Best breathing pattern for achieving blackout

[Mircea]

A certain time of the year approaches. What one may more or less call a vacation back to my most relatable homeland. Watching the state of the world deteriorate, as every nation on the planet is set on replacing any semblance of liberty with a regime of slavery disguised as safety, I know my time here is up... sooner than it would have been in a timeline where at least humanity didn't fail and descend into global tyranny. Unless something spectacular were to change my mind, this time I'm determined, I know my place isn't here.

I've known that if I must do this myself, the ocean should be my exit, both for its availability and a place where I'd be happy transitioning. This time it wouldn't be like my failed experience years ago: When you're in water over your head with a weight that can't be taken off there isn't much room for error. There are two ways it can go down; The bad way in which I have to experience suffocation and inhaling saltwater for possibly a whole minute, or the good way where I can black out before that point or at least reduce its intensity. I'm prepared for both without worry, but to the extent my higher self wishes to grant that before I meet them and the owners of this dream / simulation in person, I'd greatly prefer the later option. While no substances I have access to can safely induce fainting, I know breathing can.

I've kept on researching shallow water blackout, the fainting game, as well as breathing techniques like the Wim Hof method. Many people accidentally drown by blacking out from hyperventilating and holding their breath, yet it's not clear when and at what point this happens. At present I'm experimenting with different timings and variations to see what gets me dizzy the quickest: My goal is to reach the point where due to excessive elimination of carbon dioxide, the need to breathe is no longer triggered even as the body runs out of oxygen, leading to cerebral hypoxia and blackout... in chest deep water especially a weight attached, this ideally leads to drowning without even being aware of it. After a few sessions I'm able to reach the point where I feel a tingling in my fingers and toes as well as the back of my mouth, hearing gets muffled, mild darkening of my vision, a bit of disorientation... nowhere close to a blackout though. My current experimentation is based on this tutorial:



TLDR and my precise question: What are the best breathing steps for reaching a blackout? Does anyone have a recipe based on what they've experimented or heard from others? For example, as per that video: Continuously breathe at a rate of 1 second in and 1 second out for 30 breaths, hold for 15 / 30 / 60 seconds, repeat the process for the desired number of sessions. Is there something more effective than that for disabling the urge to breathe and achieving blackout? Thank you.

 

[Emerita]

I can hold my breath until I pass out. To do that I trigger panic and fear, I imagine distressing scenarios or memories. In that freeze state, I instinctively hold my breath and I easily black out, almost like drifting off to sleep, and during that time, the emotional pain fades away. I found that more peaceful than restricting my breathing but thats just me.

 

[Mircea]

I can hold my breath until I pass out. To do that I trigger panic and fear, I imagine distressing scenarios or memories. In that freeze state, I instinctively hold my breath and I easily black out, almost like drifting off to sleep, and during that time, the emotional pain fades away. I found that more peaceful than restricting my breathing but thats just me.

Very interesting, never heard of that before. Thankfully I can't trigger myself an actual state of panic, I've been more in a state of constant stress for years because of everything happening around me. I never found a way to remove the urge to breathe: Hyperventilating repeatedly reduces it somewhat, but the muffled hearing and blurry vision still come with needing to breathe again.