# What goes through your mind on a fast rollercoaster? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368 "2017-10-09T08:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/41 "2018-07-05T19:38:08Z")
It’s weird. Once I start going fast enoughs, I lose the ability to process motion visually - I feel like I’m moving, but all I see are disconnected flashes, like a very fast slideshow. I actually find it strangely relaxing, because it allows me to detatch myself from what’s happening. Does this happen to anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/42 "2018-07-05T23:36:48Z")
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/43 "2018-07-06T01:26:14Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Depends. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/44 "2018-07-06T03:20:26Z")
Uncomfortable. I feel sick. I feel sick. OMG I’m going to die. I feel sick. I feel sick. Rare to actually enjoy a roller coaster, because I feel uncomfortable and sick. Some water chutes are ok, all log rides – which don’t have the jerkyness of rollers nor the tight turns of some water chutes. “OMG I’m going to die” has an emotional impact like horror movies: it makes you like the people you’re with. I love going through log rides with the kid. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/45 "2018-07-06T03:32:35Z")
Let’s see… In May, 1981, I took my middle school band to the Six Flags over Georgia concert competition. After “we” got an overall 3 score in concert I took them to the theme park. One ride there then, called “Knight”, bothered me. My first desk clarinet player stuck her finger in my face and said, “You. Me. The Knight.” It was intense enough for her that when we reached the (double? triple?) inverted loop she screamed a word I’d never expected to hear from an 8th grade student. It’s all good now. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/46 "2018-07-06T13:35:04Z")
Ahhhhhhhhghghghghg never have i felt so aliiiiiiiiive!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/47 "2018-07-06T15:52:54Z")
Well, if it’s from an “established” place like Six Flags, I’ll feel excitement from forces not generally put on my body. The only time I feel like I’m actually going to die is on relatively small carnival rides. I don’t trust things that are taken up and down every few days. I’m constantly envisioning some quick release pin coming loose and being a 10 yard red smear on the pavement. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368/48 "2018-07-06T18:15:53Z")
> [@CharmaChameleon](#): > > Let’s see… In May, 1981, I took my middle school band to the Six Flags over Georgia concert competition. After “we” got an overall 3 score in concert I took them to the theme park. > > One ride there then, called “Knight”, bothered me. My first desk clarinet player stuck her finger in my face and said, “You. Me. The Knight.” > > It was intense enough for her that when we reached the (double? triple?) inverted loop she screamed a word I’d never expected to hear from an 8th grade student. > > It’s all good now. I’ve never heard of a ride called “The Knight” ever existing at that park. There is a “Dark Knight” coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure (New Jersey), but it didn’t open until 2008. They do have a triple-loop coaster called the Mind Bender, which would’ve been running then. Sure it wasn’t “You. Me. The Mind”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-your-mind-on-a-fast-rollercoaster/798368.md?page=2)