# How strong does adrenaline make me?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-strong-does-adrenaline-make-me/127509 "2002-09-08T05:33:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-strong-does-adrenaline-make-me/127509/21 "2002-09-11T10:53:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by mangeorge \*  
> \*\ ***David Simmons** recalls;
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> Adrenaline also distort’s one’s sense of time. 😛  
> Peace,  
> mangeorge \*\*

_Ahem_ No way I can prove this of course, but I’ve done the ‘teleportation’ trick twice in front of plenty of witnesses - who pretty much ignored the _inspiration_ for my sudden change-of-location to gape at me in astonishment. Like **David Simmons** , I have no memory of moving - I’m here/I’m there - but I’m assuming I was pretty fast because of the reaction from witnesses. I may have done it at other times when I was alone and simply didn’t notice.

I’m not particularly athletic or anything; I’ve always attributed it to pure panic and the accompanying adrenaline rush.

And, yes, one incident _did_ involve a snake. 🙂

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-strong-does-adrenaline-make-me/127509/22 "2002-09-11T23:25:06Z")

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Oh I agree with the “teleportation” thing too. Been there myself, snake\* included. It’s just that your brain only see’s “SNAKE”-“NO SNAKE”. What happens in between is not important, and get’s ignored. To the observer you move very quickly, but not instantaneously.  
Same thing happens in a fight. You don’t really see the crowd, or much of anything else. Only the adversary. Ever noticed how slowly _he_ seem’s to move, relative to yourself?  
\*What _is_ that large snake, looks sorta like a rattler, but actually prey’s on them? Sorry for the aside, but I just can’t remember the dang name.  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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