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 I get nightmares about this moment.

You guys dream about falling off the cliffs you see or is that just me?

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 You mean to tell me there are people who don't have dreams where they're falling off cliffs? 
 I used to dream about falling. Mainly at the beginning of my slumber I would feel my belly drop. It pissed me off enough to where I began jumping instead of falling. This still sucked but it was my choice and the gut drop was expected. 

That dream went away thereafter. 

Not sure how I got to the point where I can control my dream in that way but I did. 
 I get intrusive thoughts about jumping off / leaping from edges and great heights but it doesn't really bother me, it's just an automatic but odd response.

Does your brain do that too? If you have a fear of heights I can see that combination sucking 😅 
 you mean feeling like the edge is pulling you?  
 Yeah, and an odd urge to.. jump. It's like a subconscious voice tempting you to do it. 
 For me, in such nightmares, I'm on top of tall buildings or structures and they wobble.

It's the worst 😩 
 no actually what I experience is definitely worse 
 I used to experience something similar, when I was a kid, but from my cousin's balcony 10-stories high . 
 nah I seek them out


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 all my college buddies are exlimbers. I don't get it. stoked for you tho 
 Where is that?!? 🤩 bugs? 
 wind river range 😍 
 Ohh nice! One of the few ranges I haven’t yet had the pleasure of climbing in. 
 I only went once and it was a real epic in every sense. deep drive to the trailhead, ~10 mile hike in, daily thunderstorms, insane climbing. worth a visit for sure. 

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 Yeah. That lines up with everything I ever heard about it. Seems amazing. 
 Holy balls Batman 
 When I stand at the edge of a cliff, I feel like I'm being pulled over it. I don't have a fear of heights, but I get bad vertigo in those situations.  
 All the time!! 
 Gunnison? 

I don’t get dreams about it but looking over big drops still makes my palms sweat even after 25+ years climbing. 
 looks like gunnison to me. I went there once. climbing looked sketchy. striking canyon. 

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 Total choss pile. 😂 Some hard as nails routes though. 
 yeah black Canyon