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Post by rmc on Dec 26, 2012 0:45:13 GMT
That, plus there are a lot of 'instructions' saved away in what can be termed the minor part of our nervous system, or the Peripheral Nervous System - triggered during adrenaline events like fire, pain, etc. medical.tpub.com/14295/css/14295_49.htmThese instructions can literally be used without the brain's input (until, of course, the body expires totally) |
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Post by silverdragon on Dec 26, 2012 8:22:25 GMT
.... Ahhh... I am an adrenalin Junkie.
You cant spend your youth jumping off cliff faces to abseil, or fly a hang-glider down, white water canoe, and other extreme sports without being a tad mad .....
Does our reaction to mass adrenalin "Tailor" its self to "Life experience"?....
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Post by the light works on Dec 26, 2012 16:21:52 GMT
I've seen them cover a good 20 feet or more in the process - and in fact that sort of random purposeless movement is exactly what is suggested by the idiom.
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Post by rmc on Dec 26, 2012 18:03:55 GMT
The ability to easily achieve both Vasodilation and Vasoconstriction is a huge factor in compensatory phase of shock, it looks to be. Since, as we age, or otherwise become unhealthy, we loose a little of the ability to do that as easily, it is harder for us to compensate going into deep shock. One way that a body able to vasoconstrict easily can compensate longer than another who cannot is to constrict blood flow to a wound site while also providing vasodilation to the brain and heart (automatically) - more or less maintaining an overall normal to high Blood Pressure even in the wake of devastating injury.
In this way, those that have a better physical 'constitution' are those likely able to this very thing better than others. And thus, probably why the OP saw the observations that he did.
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Post by paulsee on Jan 2, 2013 11:00:05 GMT
"I've seen them cover a good 20 feet or more in the process - and in fact that sort of random purposeless movement is exactly what is suggested by the idiom."
Thanks TLW. That's explains the restraints during the beheading process.
The comments of this thread got me interested in a staple of hollywood films, the twitching of deceased bodies. (e.g. "The rock" where the Dead soldier's legs/feet were twitching and the Sean Connery character saying that that is quite normal)
I have always treated such things with great skepticism considering that it is in the movies. However, after the specific comments by RMC and TLW and other inputs, now I am not so sure.
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