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Old 04-06-2013, 09:46 PM   #21
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Default Re: How to manage water torture?

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Originally Posted by Xplo View Post
Fiction widely holds that people will pass out after crossing a certain threshold of pain, and that the real challenge (at least in the short term) isn't keeping the victim aliive, but keeping him awake and sensible. I don't know how accurate this is.
I have had renal colic, a dental abscess that was nearly as bad, and a broken leg that was nowhere near. The pain of the renal colic was so severe that I couldn't stand nor perform voluntary movement. The pain was emetic, paralysing: but it didn't threaten my consciousness (nor make me feel overwhelmingly truthful).

On the other hand, I have fainted from sitting up too suddenly after a doctor looked into my ear with an otoscope.
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