Story My hanging experience

[Steph99]

I wanted to explore using hanging as a method. What I did was put on a climbing harness and attached it to a beam. Then I tied a noose to the same beam. The noose was attached such that the climbing harness took most of the weight. I then stepped off the chair and hung for a minute. There was pressure on the neck but quite bearable. There was no problem with either the beam or either rope breaking. I tried it a few more times subsequently tying the noose shorter so there was more pressure on neck but still alot of weight taken by the harness. I didn't really get that dizzy or come close to blacking out but it was obvious that shortening the noose further would probably led to that. Then I put my harness on backwards so that the climbing rope was behind me, and the rope with the noose in front off me. I stepped off the chair and quite quickly got dizzy and then I started to have no idea where I was and was just mentally floating. I somehow put my feet back on the chair, released the noose, and was still in a disassociated state for some minutes. It was readily apparent that given 5 more seconds I would not have been able to put my feet back on the chair and I would've CTB. No idea why having the climbing harness on backwards led to such a different result.