Is this for real? Is he just insane? Or what?
The link has a bunch of videos of some guy jumping into quicksand, or trying to climb out of it.
Looks real.
He’s insane.
I wonder how deep it really is. My guess is that this is some kind of mud fetish where he gets off on the idea of being consumed by the mud. But actually he’s landing in something that’s like 4ft deep, tops. And just bends his knees or lays down or whatever and acts like he’s about to die in quicksand.
It’s like pretending to drown in the shallow end of the pool.
… sick fettish, that’s my guess.
Wha…www.Mudlover.com ?
I hate the internet.
My god!!! Sometimes I hate being right!!!
I thought getting out of quicksand isn’t that big of a deal if you know what you are doing?
8 points for sheer bravery. Minus twelve for over-use of ‘batterlike’.
Lightning sand, on the other hand, is much more difficult to escape. Fortunately Buttercup discovered what it looks like so it’s easy enough to avoid.
What about the ROUSes?
I don’t believe they exis…AAAAAHHHHHHH!
Yep, weird fetish.
Yes, it is real, my ex also used to do that. This guy is in mud (not quicksand) and there isn’t any real danger in what he is doing at all.
Mud is very dense so it gives people much more bouyancy than water (which should make sense if you think about it, mud being somewhere between water and dirt). In mud, you will sink to about your waist, if you are sitting down. I really don’t know how far you’d sink if you were standing up, because walking through mud is tiring. I have been up to my neck in mud, although I wasn’t completely upright.
Where do you find this much mud? I’m not sure where this guy is, but my ex went to sand and gravel mining operations. They dig up the ground, run water over it until the sand and gravel can be scooped up. The run-off is a slurry of very fine clay, similar to what you’d use to make clay pottery. Actually, it’s more like clay slip. I’ve been in mud that was about the consistency of custard and mud that would very nearly hold it’s shape if you tried to “sculpt” it.
My ex said that he’d seen it 20’ deep. I tend to believe that because he watched various operations dig and fill up acres of land.
The fetish isn’t really about being consumed by mud, just getting completely covered in mud. But you’ve got to have a plot, you know? BTW, the purple prose is NOT part of the fetish.
There really isn’t any bravery involved - all that struggling you are seeing? Him trying to get his body to go lower into the mud, not him trying to keep from sinking.
The only real danger you could encounter doing this is if you were foolish enough to jump from a 20’ height. You’d end up several feet under the surface, and the thickness of the mud would make it pretty damn hard to work your way back up, assuming you could tell which way was up.
Hey, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! 
It is a very, errrrr, interesting way to get, ummmmm, get a massage (yeah, that’s the ticket). Being in mud that thick is as close to weightlessness as most people will ever be able to get, and no inconvenient nausea, either. I’ve enjoyed such “massages” 
many times.
It takes a great deal of work to find and/or set up an area with that much mud, which is why it tends to be a fetish thing. Since the only person I know who would be willing to expend that effort is someone I do not care to associate with anymore, I haven’t been mud bathing in a long time.