Adventure!

[Strider1002]

I was talking with a friend about the concept of "adventure" and how it irks me that people will go on tourist-y trips and call it an "adventure." I don't think it means what you think it means.

So, how do you define adventure?
And while we're at it, what kind of adventures would you like to have, if any?

 

[timewerx]

Adventure isn't out there, it's inside. There's limitless worlds and possibilities to explore in the human soul!

 

[Gnarwhal]

Adventure's whatever the hell I want it to be at the onset of said adventure. I would call exploring the USS Constitution or the Freedom Trail just as much of an adventure as when I'm roaming through a National Forest or cruising aimlessly down the highway on a road trip.

 

[mukk_in]

I was talking with a friend about the concept of "adventure" and how it irks me that people will go on tourist-y trips and call it an "adventure." I don't think it means what you think it means.

So, how do you define adventure?
And while we're at it, what kind of adventures would you like to have, if any?

Something that's thrilling and pumps up the adrenaline and breaks the monotony. When I was hiking the smoky mountains in Gatlinburg, TN, for the first time as part of the Appalachian trail crew I felt that thrill. Hiking the mountains in Algeria gave me the same thrill. I always feel that thrill when I hit the vast beach in my hometown (background in my pic). Oh, what a rush! Enjoy God's bounty before we move onto an even lovelier paradise. God bless .

 

[kittysbecute]

Everything is an adventure. It just depends on your attitude/perspective to see it. Some things I'd say are an adventure someone else wouldn't say it was. And something someone else says is an adventure, I wouldn't necessarily see it as one if it was my experience. Not everyone is excited about the same things as everyone else. Adventure can be risky - but not everyone views risks the same.
I also view it with all the definitions of it in the dictionary as well.

 

[ReesePiece23]

To me, adventure is anything that:

- Forces you out of your comfort zone

- Not really knowing what you're doing, or why, but doing it anyway

- Is destinationless and foggy

- Makes you forget about who you think you are

- Tests your boundaries (I discovered that on a flight back to London from Hong Kong that I can stay awake on a plane, even after being awake for 2 days solid.)

- Only builds confidence (in foreign speaking countries you're forced to rely only on yourself.)

- Changes your life from that moment on

The problem with tourist trips is that the focus is on landmarks - NOT the people. Not only that but the landmarks themselves appear rather inert in real life and a LOT smaller. You're also trivialising the entire country, so I spend no longer than a few minutes at these places and then walk on. I want to connect with the true locals and test myself with different foods/activities/sociocultural trends/etc. Is it scary? Yeah, it can be. But fear is the devil in disguise - and if I listened to it, I wouldn't have made the friends that I have, and I wouldn't have even so much as a fraction of the experience.

Adventure is also needy in that it demands fresh challenges. When you catch a virus (generally speaking) your body fights it, and then becomes immune to that strain of virus. It's the same with adventure. When you have overcome the stressors associated with a given adventure, you have grown from it there and then and have developed a callus to the stress. Going back and repeating it is just recreation.

Basically, if you feel uncomfortable, apprehensive and wobbly, KEEP DOING IT. Only good things will happen for you.

 

[Saucy]

An adventure is getting lost, but refusing to admit you're lost.

 

[timewerx]

- Tests your boundaries (I discovered that on a flight back to London from Hong Kong that I can stay awake on a plane, even after being awake for 2 days solid.)

Not by choice but I couldn't sleep in an airplane either, not even after what you say 2 days without sleep. Something about the low ambient pressure possibly gives me a boost of adrenaline.

I've been awake two days straight before trying to beat a very tight deadline at work. I had to watch the movie Apollo 13 over and over while working to keep myself awake. It's better than coffee for me.

 

[ReesePiece23]

Not by choice but I couldn't sleep in an airplane either, not even after what you say 2 days without sleep. Something about the low ambient pressure possibly gives me a boost of adrenaline.

I've been awake two days straight before trying to beat a very tight deadline at work. I had to watch the movie Apollo 13 over and over while working to keep myself awake. It's better than coffee for me.

Once you break through the 30 hour mark it's really easy - especially if you're busy doing stuff.

That said, near the end of my 3 day stretch I was having STRONG hallucinations. I honestly struggled to decipher between dream world and reality. I get the feeling that it would have worn off if I had continued to stay awake, but ain't nobody got time for that.

 

[MehGuy]

I was talking with a friend about the concept of "adventure" and how it irks me that people will go on tourist-y trips and call it an "adventure." I don't think it means what you think it means.

So, how do you define adventure?
And while we're at it, what kind of adventures would you like to have, if any?

With someone who suffers from a lot of anxiety.. just driving to the store can be an adventure for me.

I probably feel similar feelings to normal people who swim in shark infested waters.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[timewerx]

Only when the time is right.

That reminded me of this movie scene.

Skip to 0:20

 

[timewerx]

Once you break through the 30 hour mark it's really easy - especially if you're busy doing stuff.

That said, near the end of my 3 day stretch I was having STRONG hallucinations. I honestly struggled to decipher between dream world and reality. I get the feeling that it would have worn off if I had continued to stay awake, but ain't nobody got time for that.

Can't say that is pleasant. I had a very strong and very real hallucination on the 2nd day no sleep and thank God, I did not destroy my own work! Not a good idea to work with no sleep.

 

[Strider1002]

I didn't know that going without sleep could be an adventure!

 

[ReesePiece23]

Can't say that is pleasant. I had a very strong and very real hallucination on the 2nd day no sleep and thank God, I did not destroy my own work! Not a good idea to work with no sleep.

Yeah, it's not particularly fun when it hits hard. I got on a night bus in London once I had landed, and kept teetering between chatting up a geisha girl in a park, and sitting next to a tramp who kept trying to start a conversation with me.

In my hallucination state, the world was bright, colourful and the girl was wonderful. Words rolled off my tongue like crystal clear water trickling down a quaint little brook.

In my reality state, the tramp smelt of Diamond White cider and Pedigree Chum. The bus driver was by FAR the roughest bus driver since the day before forever, and the world around me swirled like a flushing toilet. It was just a mixture of the city skyline and dodgy kebab shops.

And then, occasionally, I'd bump into Noel Edmonds. (Was it dream or reality? I still don't know.)

Anyway, I don't even remember going to bed. I just know that I woke up in it.

I didn't know that going without sleep could be an adventure!

Try it. See if you can beat my 3 day record.

 

[Strider1002]

Try it. See if you can beat my 3 day record.

I can't

 

[ReesePiece23]

I can't

Probably a good thing. You don't want to aspire to be anything like me.

I'm looking to beat the record for the most amount of light bulbs eaten. I need to beat 4,000 apparently to set a new world record.

 

[timewerx]

Yeah, it's not particularly fun when it hits hard. I got on a night bus in London once I had landed, and kept teetering between chatting up a geisha girl in a park, and sitting next to a tramp who kept trying to start a conversation with me.

In my hallucination state, the world was bright, colourful and the girl was wonderful. Words rolled off my tongue like crystal clear water trickling down a quaint little brook.

In my reality state, the tramp smelt of Diamond White cider and Pedigree Chum. The bus driver was by FAR the roughest bus driver since the day before forever, and the world around me swirled like a flushing toilet. It was just a mixture of the city skyline and dodgy kebab shops.

And then, occasionally, I'd bump into Noel Edmonds. (Was it dream or reality? I still don't know.)

Anyway, I don't even remember going to bed. I just know that I woke up in it.



Try it. See if you can beat my 3 day record.

Now that sounds pleasant but severe, mine was seeing ghosts and doing my work. :o

 

[ReesePiece23]

Now that sounds pleasant but severe, mine was seeing ghosts and doing my work.

It did end with copious amounts of spontaneous laughter and robot dancing, but waking up the next day was NOT fun. I don't do deep sleeping, my head goes fuzzy.

I've never seen ghosts... I don't know that I'd want to.

 

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

To me a true adventure would contain some sort of element of the unknown and danger.