6:59:00, altitude 10,000 m
Yesterday you went to bed early, and today you had an early flight. Soon after takeoff you fall asleep. And suddenly you suddenly wake up - cold air is whistling around you and noise is heard. Terrible and loud. Where I am? - you think. Where is the plane?
You are at an altitude of 10 km. One. And you fall. Unpleasant situation. It's time to focus on the positives (yes, other than surviving the plane crash). Gravity is working against you, but another force is on your side: time. Believe it or not, this situation is better than the one in which you fell from the top floor of a hotel balcony after taking too much on your chest.
Well, at least she'll get better. At these altitudes there is not enough oxygen and you become hypoxic. Soon you will lose consciousness, and you will fly at least one and a half kilometers before you wake up again. And after that, remember this text. After all, your next stop is the surface of the Earth.
Of course, the chances of surviving a fall from a ten-kilometer height are extremely small, but if you find yourself in such a situation, you will not lose anything if you understand it well. There are two ways to fall from a plane. The first is a free fall, without any protection or means to slow down the descent. The second is to become a “debris rider,” as amateur historian from Massachusetts Jim Hamilton, who has collected a page of research on free-fall cases, called this situation. This is something like an online database of all cases of people falling from heights, after which they survived.
In the second case, you can get an advantage if you cling to some part of the collapsed plane. In 1972, Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulović was on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft flying over Czechoslovakia when it suddenly exploded in mid-air. She fell from a height of 10,160 meters, being pinned between a seat, a food cart, part of the fuselage and the body of another crew member. She landed on a snowy slope and slid down before coming to a complete stop. As a result, she received serious injuries, but survived.
Surviving a fall while surrounded by objects that slightly protected you was more common than surviving a fall without foreign objects. There is a well-known case of Alan Magee, the hero of the American collection of amazing facts “Ripley's Believe It or Not!” In 1943, his B-17 plane was shot down over France. The pilot from New Jersey fell from a height of 7,000 m and collided with the roof of a train station, after which he fell inside. He was subsequently captured by German troops, amazed that he had survived.
Whether you're clinging to a piece of fuselage or free-falling, what interests you most is the concept of terminal velocity. Under the influence of gravity, you fall faster and faster. But, like any moving object, you experience air resistance - the faster you move, the greater the resistance. When the force of gravity equals the air resistance, the acceleration stops - you reach the maximum.
Depending on your size and weight, and factors such as air density, your top speed will be approximately 120 mph. You will reach it surprisingly quickly - having flown only about 450 m (the height of the Ostankino tower is 540 m). And equal speed means that you hit the pavement with the same force. The only difference is the period of time. Jumping from the Ostankino Tower, you will fall in 13 seconds.
After you fall out of the plane, you will have enough time to read almost the entirety of this article.
Interpretation in Miller's dream book
Psychologist Miller believes that this dream has a very important semantic meaning. In his opinion, a fall is a sign that the dreamer will face serious problems, after solving which he will acquire qualities that are important to him.
- Falling off a cliff means overcoming difficulties in real life. If the dreamer experiences fear at the same time, then there will be many problems that need to be solved.
- Getting hurt or breaking a limb after a fall means losing something important. The dreamer may have to part with a close friend.
Also read: Dress in the dream book: detailed interpretation
Falling is a sign that the dreamer will face serious problems
7:00:20, altitude 6700 m
You have descended low enough to breathe calmly. Your consciousness snapped back. At this altitude there are about 2 minutes left before the fall. Your plan is simple: you need to get into a zen state and decide to survive. You will realize that, as Hamilton noted, “it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the landing.”
Without losing your nerve, you take aim.
But what? Magee's fall onto the stone floor of the French station was softened by the glass roof. Glass hurts you, but it also helps you. So is the grass. Haystacks and bushes softened the fall of people, who were then surprised that they survived. Trees are also suitable, although you can also skewer them on a tree. Snow? Certainly. Swamps? With a dirty surface covered with vegetation - even better.
Hamilton described one case of a parachutist who, after a complete failure of the parachute, was saved by springing from the power line wires. But water is a terrible choice, despite popular misconception. Liquid, like concrete, does not compress. Falling into the ocean is essentially the same as falling on the sidewalk. Only the pavement won't "spread open to swallow your broken body," as Hamilton explains.
Having chosen a goal, you can move on to the correct body position. To slow down your descent, pretend to be a parachutist. Straighten your arms and legs, turn your chest towards the ground, arch your back and head up. You'll increase friction, making it easier to maneuver. But don't relax - this pose is not for landing.
Unfortunately for you in this situation, the best landing position is still a matter of debate. In a 1942 study in the journal War Medicine, Fr. Recommendation: landing with the entire body area. However, a 1963 FAA report states that shifting into the classic skydiver's pose—feet together, heels up, knees and hips tucked—increases the chances of survival. The same study noted that acrobatics and wrestling skills help people survive. Martial arts are considered especially useful for falling on hard surfaces. “A black belt holder can reportedly break a tree with one blow,” write the authors, who believe that such skills will be useful in this situation.
The best lesson in learning by trial and error is the story of Japanese skydiver Yasuhiro Kubo, world record holder in the “banzai” category of skydiving. This parachutist threw a parachute out of the plane, then jumped after it, waited as long as possible, then caught up with it, put it on and pulled the ring. In 2000, Kubo jumped from a height of 3,000 meters and fell for 50 seconds before grabbing his parachute. A safer method of training is to use wind tunnel simulators, which can be found in various amusement parks.
But these methods will not help you train the most difficult task: landing. To do this, you can consider this option - although we cannot say that we recommend it - like jumping from the highest bridge in the world (at the time of construction), the Millau Viaduct. One of its supports has a height of 341 meters, and below there is elastic arable land.
If you have to land in water, you need to make a decision very quickly. Studies of bridge jump survivors show that a feet-first, extended-stretch (pencil or soldier) posture maximizes the chances of survival. At the same time, the famous cliff jumpers in Acapulco [professional artists participating in a daily show of jumping from a height of 30-40 m into the water in the Mexican town of La Quebrada / approx. per.] prefer a head-first position, with palms clasped together and arms extended to protect the head. Whatever you choose, first hold the jumper position for as long as possible. Then, if entering the water feet first is unavoidable, the most important thing in this situation, for reasons both obvious and indecent, will be to squeeze the buttocks harder.
Whatever the surface, you definitely don't want to land on your head. In the 1977 “Free Fall Impact Load Transfer Study,” researchers at the Institute for Highway Safety Research found that the leading cause of death in falls—and they studied falls from buildings, bridges, and into elevator shafts—was injury to the back of the head. If you have to fall horizontally, sacrifice beauty and land on your face, not the back of your head. You might also want to consider taking safety glasses with you when you fly—Hamilton says that if you fall, you'll have a hard time aiming because the strong airflow will make your eyes water.
7:02:19, altitude 300 m
Given your initial altitude, by the time you get to this point in the article, you will already be approaching the ground.
Note translation: the original author bases calculations on the volume of English text and an average reading speed of 250 words per minute; in fact, the number of words in the original text of the article at this point is approaching 1250, which would take 5 minutes to read, and we are talking about a three-minute drop. The Russian translation has approximately the same number of words at this point, but the average reading speed in Russian is estimated at 180 words per minute. Still, it’s better to read this article before you fall from a height.
We've already covered everything you need, so you can concentrate on the main task. However, if anything, here's some additional information - although by this point it won't help you much.
Statistically, in this situation, a member of an aircraft crew, a child, or a passenger on a military aircraft has a better chance. Over the past forty years, there have been about ten plane crashes with only one survivor. Among the cases described, four people were part of the aircraft crew, such as flight attendant Vulovic, and seven were under 18. These include two-year-old Mohammed el-Fate Osman, who rode on the wreckage of a Boeing jet that crashed in Sudan in 2003.
Perhaps team members survive more often because their belts work better. But about why children manage to survive more often while there is debate. The FAA study notes that children, especially those under 4 years of age, have more flexible skeletons, more relaxed muscles, and a greater proportion of subcutaneous fat relative to body weight, which helps protect internal organs. Small people - when the head is lower than the back of the front seat - are better protected from the debris of a collapsing plane. Less weight reduces the maximum speed of falling, and less body area reduces the chances of bumping into something when falling.
Crashing in a dream, falling from a height
At first it may seem that this is a very bad dream that does not bode well. No matter how it is! Crashing in a dream does not mean dying in reality. If in a dream a person died after a fall, this is a good sign, which is an omen of grandiose events in his life.
We also recommend reading:
Choosing a gift - what does such a dream promise and what are its interpretations in dream books? I dreamed that I could swim under water and breathe - meaning Why do you dream about bees: detailed interpretation
- If the dreamer had a need to jump off a cliff, he had good reason for this. Perhaps in reality he feels depressed. It turns out that having fallen to death in a dream, he will be able to start a new life in reality. In this case, the dream is a hint.
- However, if in the dream death from a fall did not occur immediately, but after some time, which was torment for the dreamer, this indicates unpromising affairs that he is conducting in reality. Perhaps, to achieve success, he must direct his attention to other projects, abandoning old ones.
Crashing in a dream does not mean dying in reality
