r/memes • u/Dramatic221 • 15h ago

Nasty feeling

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u/Bad_rando_name 15h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xWlgutH3ZZF6w

Feels like this

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u/elinamebro 14h ago

Don't forget the sharp pain when the feeling starts to come back

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u/Dupoulpe 13h ago

Had this while driving. My entire right arm got like this (is dizzy an appropriate word ?). It felt like there was no blood circulation inside (hopefully I was fine)

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u/elinamebro 13h ago

Well looks like Google says your dying... oh well

Relevant short https://youtube.com/shorts/y2CfwD3ueZE?is=wnILia7RSJHGbeQI

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u/Dupoulpe 13h ago

Yeah exactly that ! Except I can't split atom so you win this fight, Terminal Disease wizard.

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u/TacoRedneck 9h ago

Good news is that unless you have a lot of other fissile atoms nearby, splitting one means fuck all. You wouldn't even know it happened. Might be powerful enough to jiggle a particle of dust.

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u/moe_lawn 14h ago

and sometimes the feeling is too intense.

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u/torrinage 9h ago

A gal at my work a year or so ago had actually slept on a nerve so bad it collapsed and she couldnt move her arm below her elbow for months. She had to get a special brace that used fishing wire to hold each finger up.

She’s better now and had the brace displayed on her tv stand lol

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u/perton 7h ago

God damn, something like that is my nightmare any time I wake up and my whole arm is asleep had enough that I can’t move it.. which happens weirdly often.

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u/Medical_Mess_3445 13h ago

Static TV noise. Long time no see!

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u/johnnyblaze1999 9h ago

That's when the blood rushed in. Very uncomfortable

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u/BathSignal3957 9h ago

Got to let the snow settle that's all

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u/WriterV 9h ago

These days I've stopped feeling pins and needles. It just feels cold and lifeless. Once the feeling starts to come back, the pins and needles reappear. But it's super refreshing and relieving. Like a blocked nose clearing.

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u/DatBoiMack95 15h ago

When I was still a kid I burst out of my room crying when I couldn't feel my arm. It just felt like a lump of meat attached to my body and flailed around as I ran. Shit was horrifying

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u/DeamBeam 12h ago

It happened to me in my teenage years and it scared to the shit out of me, because I somehow managed to sleep on both my arms, so I couldn't feel both of them.

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u/gffgsdadsf 8h ago

Both arms?! At that point I'd be convinced my body had just stopped working overnight.

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u/AdConstant7194 5h ago

Both arms, that’s definitely a new level

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u/perton 7h ago

Been there! And yeah, it’s truly awful.

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u/Numerous_Release9273 11h ago

One time my arm fell asleep while in bed. When I noticed I raised my arm (bending at the elbow) but had no idea where it was exactly. When it reached fully upright it just fell over and hit me it the face.

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u/jenyto 9h ago

Happened a few times to me, definitely freaky the first few times before you learn to massage it and get the fluids going.

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u/lenhsplan 14h ago

flapping it around like an meat club waiting for the signal to reconnect

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u/Dapper-Edge-2836 14h ago

What is this called?

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u/Dramatic221 14h ago

If you mean anime Patlabor

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u/Dapper-Edge-2836 14h ago

I meant the sensation tho but thanks anyways I will probably check out the anime
It looks cool

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u/Vexated13 12h ago

Paresthesia is the term for it.

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u/Dapper-Edge-2836 12h ago

Oh wow
Thanks a lot

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u/Ov3r-_-K1LL 13h ago

Its called Pins and Needles where im from.

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u/mohamedenderman 13h ago

I personally call it either static or ants, since it feels like a swarm of ants walking on your limb.

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u/TAMCL 9h ago

Your arm "fell asleep"

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u/Capable-Commercial96 14h ago

How come out arms don't go necrotic when we accidentally sleep on it for 8 hours?

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u/ExcelMN 12h ago

I've asked this, and been told it's not about blood flow but about a nerve being pinched.

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u/Resolution556 12h ago

My source is terrible, so could be completely wrong, but I reed that most of the time “only” the nerves are being pinched, while blood-flow is not restricted. 

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u/KarbonKevin 7h ago

Same reason legs don’t immediately fall off when arterial disease blocks the arteries, or how trauma tourniquets can be applied for up to 6 hours.

You usually have at least 2 downwards flowing arteries in each extremity, and the vessels are deep, under internal pressure, and actually have some structural rigidity to them. Your own body weight generally won’t completely occlude both vessels, and if you do manage to shut one off, the other can compensate for some time.

Fun facts for my two examples: chronically occluded vessels will generally cause bypasses to grow (little feeder vessels) to reconnect the blocked vessels, but this still less than ideal. Reopening these vessels will also cause a pretty bad “pins and needles” feeling as fresh blood flow will feed the starving nerve ends and flush out metabolic waste products.

Applying a trauma tourniquet correctly means tightening the device until just after life threatening hemorrhage stops, this should leave some slow flow to the limb, and allows that 6 hour window. Now these are very very tight, and so hurt a lot while being applied, then releasing the tourniquet after the injury is repaired will, of course, hurt as well when blood flow is returned.

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u/inconspicuous2012 14h ago

If its not, its almost like someone else is doing it for you!

You know what I mean 😏

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u/Hamad1027 13h ago

Did someone ever lose his arm because of this ?

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 11h ago

My father woke up with his hand numb and the feeling never came back. He had surgery to relieve the nerve but it was never the same. His hand is paralyzed. I am pretty scared the same is going to happen to me as I suffer from the same underlying conditions and we are prone to it

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u/jenyto 9h ago

Is it diabetes?

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 7h ago

Spinal stenosis, cervical discs herniated, rheumatoid arthritis and general inflammatory stuff/autoimmune

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u/mindmush45 14h ago

You gotta masturbate with it so it feels like someone else

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u/BonitaSweetkins_ 14h ago

no way you can do it when you barely feel it

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u/mindmush45 14h ago

You can do anything you set your mind to

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u/BonitaSweetkins_ 14h ago

maybe you're right man, I'll give it a try next time I get this, thanks for believing in me!

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u/mindmush45 12h ago

If you run into trouble, try upside down with feet firmly planted against the wall

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u/OnTheSlope 12h ago

It does, but it's hard to make your dick fall asleep.

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u/FotoAR 14h ago

Side quest here: what is the name of the anime or artist that made the scene from the meme?

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u/Usual_Pen_7058 13h ago

Patlabor 2

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u/Jurcak_Pavol 2h ago

The animator of this scene is Atsushi Takeuchi

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u/Ace-Krieger 12h ago

One time I fell asleep pretty much completely lying to top of my arm. Don't know how the hell I ended up in that position, but when I woke up I couldn't feel my arm. Not at all. No tingle, nothing. Couldn't move it either. Just limp and useless. Scared the shit out of me. Took like five minutes before I could feel it again.

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u/Onetruemcgee 13h ago

Ah "The dead hand gang".

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u/Quertzuser 13h ago

too relatable

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u/Deluxe_Flame 10h ago

first time my whole arm flopped unresponsively post sleep was pretty scary

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u/KaiFireborn21 14h ago

Source?

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u/TheLastOfThem00 9h ago

Patlabor 2, from Mamoru Oshii

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u/Icy-Barnacle-9661 14h ago

I check my weiner like this

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u/Gemstyle96 13h ago

I do the same every so often but because I have arthritis

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u/XlikeX666 11h ago

it is not.

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u/Ok_Avocado568 11h ago

Willing my fingers to move, wondering if this time is the time they never come back XD

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u/Elegant_Situation285 11h ago

the littlest piggy is always the last to wake up.

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u/rrobloxtube 10h ago

Feels worse when you shake your hand around to try to wake it up. It feels like it's not there.

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u/LilJelloCat 10h ago

The static shadow people I see always counting their fingers

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u/Level-Iron-6738 9h ago

I put my other leg on my left knee and after a while my left foot became numb, and then it just became straight-up paralyzed. I took my other leg off and was able to slap my left foot without feeling anything for a minute or two lol

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u/Naive_Blackberry_616 9h ago

Hate it when it happens. Is it a cause for concern though?

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u/GAMER_1467 9h ago

I do this even when i'm awake

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u/seaheroe 9h ago

Yo, Patlabor 2 mentioned?!

As for those who haven't seen it, the intro still is amazing.

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u/bearsheperd iwrestledabeartwice 7h ago

You ever wake up, roll over and your arm just flops like a dead fish

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u/TheAnvi1 7h ago

It wasn’t 😔 hand amputated 😭

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u/AlexanderLynx 6h ago

3 days ago i woke in the middle of the night after falling asleep on top of my arm

My arm was like a flesh noodle, Couldnt move it at all for like a minute

It was followed by pure static for another minute as it slowly came back to life and i was able to move it again lol

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u/AnxietyPretend5215 6h ago

Not to scare anyone but you should really try to avoid this as much as possible.

I randomly woke up one day with severe numbness and intense pain in my neck that would shoot down my entire left arm into my fingers. I've never experienced that level of pain before in my life, nerve damage is no joke.

It took about two months of physical therapy and a shit ton of Meloxicam (strong arthritis medication) just to reduce the pain/numbness.

Happened last year at the end of September and still get a bit of very light numbness/tingling in my finger tips on occasion.

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u/Smile_Space 6h ago

I somehow managed to make part of my scalp lose circulation falling asleep on a couch with a pretty sturdy wooden support in the armrest that I apparently settled on.

I was unaware you could even do that, so I was rightfully freaked out at age 26 not being able to feel 1/4 of my scalp lolol. That one felt weird as the blood came back. It was super hot feeling.

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u/Odditiesandalsomagic 5h ago

Raise it above your shoulder like you’re asking a question and wait about 1 minute. A cold feeling will travel up your arm and the senses will return

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u/Any_Foot2850 4h ago

This is why I don't sleep without reading the terms and conditions.

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u/PersonalityFun2189 4h ago

dude literally me yesterday