When I am on a roller coaster, and going down a big drop, I can't catch my breath. Does this happen to anyone else?
2006-09-23 13:05:23 · 20 answers · asked by Erica S 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Amusement Parks
I've had it happen. It's just like when you stick your head out the window of a car that's going really fast. There's nothing wrong with it. Just make sure you don't go on a coaster that drops so far you won't have time to catch your breath! :-)
I can think of four possible explanations:
Maybe so much air is being blown at you so quickly that it pushes a lot of air into you and your body isn't used to that so it can't equalize the pressure.
Or your lungs automatically try to push out all the air that is being forcibly sent into them.
Or the G-force pressure being put on your body makes it feel like it's being squeezed and can't breathe too well.
Or you're screaming so much you can't breathe. :-)
2006-09-23 13:19:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you down freefall from a roller coaster or anything else (like sky diving for example), it is effected by gravity. Basically your feeling weightlessness for a few seconds, and maybe to you it feel shocked as well. Same feeling when your going down an elevator, you feel lighter don't you?
when you go up an elevator you feel more heavier actually. Your mass stays the same but your weight fluctuates because of gravity.
2006-09-23 13:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-27 05:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically it's the air pressure pressing on your lungs, so it's tougher to fill up completely.
Since you can't fill em up all the way so easily, you feel out of breath!
That, and if you get an awesome coaster that takes your breath away for its pure beauty! :-)
Hope that helps!
2006-09-23 15:43:16 · answer #4 · answered by Yada Yada Yada 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be that you are suffering from an anxiety attack. Some people are deathly afraid of heights or of falling and that is one way it can manifest- state of shock or paralysis.
2006-09-23 15:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by paradigm_thinker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens to me ALL the time. Don't worry about it. It's just part of the thrill!
2006-09-23 21:42:31 · answer #6 · answered by Jim F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah when i went to Hershey Park
2006-09-23 13:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by lil_viet_dragon116 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah but not always it happens because you are going to fast or your adrenalline is going out of wack so you cant catch your breath.
2006-09-25 03:53:50 · answer #8 · answered by bomber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I beleive that happens to everybody. That's part of the thrill.
2006-09-23 13:13:58 · answer #9 · answered by Tonya W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, happens to me alot when i go to hershey park, dorney park, and others places. its probably because ur going so fast and all this air is flying in ur face and all the excitment.
2006-09-23 15:30:11 · answer #10 · answered by carcrash1992 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋