3 Tanks Short of Oxygen
This guy on discord showed the server a wilderness video and extreme sport mash-up you'd usually find on smoking ads through the screen of a gym TV, mentioning how awesome it suddenly looked after feeling 3 tanks short of oxygen right after his most intense work out session. Something to do with a decreased blood flow to the brain and how it alters its function, I think.
There I was, at the worst final set of leg press, running out of breath, legs crutching up against my stomach on every negative, probably pushing its contents along with every pressure because I could feel nausea building up and my throat sliming against my will, as if involuntarily preparing to throw up. I think it didn't help that I ate some leftover avocado before hitting the gym.
With the same might I had to push through the last few reps of my leg press, I mustered enough of the same strength to physically prevent myself from vomiting and die down this sudden build up of prodrome. Now on the chest press bench, sitting back and trying my best to subside the sensation, I was nearly fainted with still enough power to go into my upper body exercise.
A few presses in accompanied by Tchaikovsky's Blumenwalzer, I think I finally understood what that discord guy meant. Tchaikovsky's illustration of the blooming field of flowers was more vivid than ever and I could imagine the thousand stalks of them dancing about in the wind on a lovely spring day. If my soul were to leave my body then and there I would be more than content to be accompanied by such breeze sending me off, waltzing away to those flowers in the same field, as I felt myself not only mentally checking out, but also physically after pulling off such a biological feat.
Is this why people take psychedelics?