What gives you a natural high?

What get the adrenaline rushing through your veins?

*Playing grand thef auto-vice city. I love to blow up things, like helicopters, in the game!
*Driving off-road
*Chaos
*Conflict-drama-fights
*Doing illegal activity almost getting caught
*Doing crazy stunts and tricks on rollarblades.

Natural weed.

*Certain random moments when I’m with my girlfriend where I just hit with this realization of how happy I am, because fo her
*Certain songs, heard the way they were meant to be heard- Dream On, Bohemian Rhapsody, Sweet Child O’ Mine…
*related, being up close and personal at concerts.
*Giants going to the World Series

Walking my dogs

Hearing from a good friend that I haven’t talked to for a while

The sound of the ocean

Feeling healthy

Waking up at 5:00am and realizing that I can sleep for another hour and enjoy two cups of coffee because it is Sunday

Helping someone in an insignificant way

Seeing my grass freshly mowed, edged, weeded and having the feeling that it’s all done

Being part of something special

Short story or novel sale

I’ll have to second these, jacksen9.

Also:

Playing with my parakeets

Paying off a credit card

Gazing upon my apartment when it’s clean

Being told that I’ve made someone’s day

Remembering past moments.

The sudden recollection of a great dream

Being able to answer an obscure question on a TV gameshow before the brainbox of the room, or anyone else, does

Eye contact with a beautiful stranger of the opposite sex

When my baby niece rested her head on me as I held her (she normally tries to get away)

Newly heard good music

I’ll set my mind to thinking of more

Demonstrating my vast superiority over my boss and supervisors intelligence wise, and computer-literacy wise.

(knowing the bespoke computer system better than anyone else - even people who got sent away to be trained)

Waking up from my recurring still-at-uni-with-mountain-of-work-and-no-degree nightmare and realizing that I passed the f****g thing! (akin to frodo having a nightmare about the ring and then waking up to realize it is destroyed)
Dreaming about being back at high-school and doing things differently

([ul]
[li]Breaking a leg of one of those ‘people’ that enjoyed persistantly giving me dead legs (I could barely walk after a while)[/li][li]Seducing those various girls that I was in love with (not all at once)[/li][li]joining the god-damn cricket team![/li][/ul] )

Getting to the top of the highest hill on my bike route (I feel invigorated, and it’s all downhill from there!)

This thread is a rare Gem. Well done Themis00. I love reminding myself of what is good in the world!

Whenever God appears to me in another visions.

Searching through the stacks and microfilms at the Carnegie Library.

Watching Star Wars.

Beautiful vintage clothing.

Great thread!

–Drumming

–Slick music from the 70’s

–Listening to certain radio programs

–Spiritual meanings in any of the above, as well as in other entities.

dancing
laughing
crushes
just after a good long cry
fucking
hearing the perfect song at a perfect moment
getting warm after coming in from the cold
the sun beaming on my back
mountain biking
a good streettttccccchhhh

-Sex

-Seeing 311 in concert

-Driving way too fast

-Accomplishing goals I set for myself. High School graduation is a given for a lot of people but it was a big one for me, I really didn’t think I was going to make it. Not that it was hard in the least, I’m just really lazy :).

love

sex

making music and liking the results

riding a mountain bike down a steep hill without using the brakes

that feeling when you are in a club or at a concert, an amazing tune comes on and everyone goes nuts (especially if you used to use MDMA etc and you get the exact same buzz off the atmostphere… weird)

when things go right for no apparent reason

getting the monthly paycheck

sex with irishfella (best kind there is :slight_smile: )

being complimented

massages

strong double espresso with 4 sugars.

Riding a motorcycle for a really, really long distance.

Riding a motorcycle for any disatance, actually :slight_smile:

Arriving at my family’s old place by the lake in Maine on a quiet summer day - ahhhhhh.

Accomplishing something difficult with my hands (building, repairing, creating, etc.)

Drawing, when I’m in the zone

Work used to do it, but all that’s changed now. :frowning:

A room full of filkers at a science fiction convention
A spectacular sunrise
Watching my wife give birth(natural for me at least-she was drugged to the gills :))
Playing a good pinball game and getting in the Zone, where nothing you do is wrong and you couldn’t lose that ball if the machine was tipped on it’s side
Hyperventilation

What get’s me high? That’s easy! Ohh… NATURAL high…

Grendel’s got it.

Kissing.

Hugging.

Watching my kids laugh.

Taking a photo and realizing , " Hey…I got it ! "

Anything performed live by “YES”.

Rollercoasters.

Hearing my best friend giggle on the telephone. :wink: