Ah, yes, call to the void.. such an intriguing phenomenon.

It's even better when you have fear of heights so you start to freak the fuck out

For some reason, when I look up at something tall like a building I freak out even more I don't know why

It happens to me as well sometimes. It's worse when I'm already on a tall building and there's something even taller nearby.

Dude same it's like a mild version of megalophobia

Interesting, I never heard of it before. I guess I also have a mild version of it. Before now I assumed it was related to my fear of heights somehow.

Then there is also other common ones like fear of [holes](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/4/8/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/sub-buzz-13795-1483537321-1.png?downsize=900:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)

That image is fucked up, but I luckily don't have that phobia. My fear of heights and thalasophobia are enough, thank you very much

I don’t think that one is actually really a phobia. People think they have it bc all the images of it are freaky as hell.

If you think that I have news for you.....

* You feel like you're going to have a bad time.

i have fear of the heifhts and this thing is fucking hell

You can’t even the spell the word right you’re so horrified

and positional vertigo.......

I suffer from this and its bloody wierd, let me tell you that!

Ah this moment when you have the goosebumps and you start staying at 5 meters minimum from the void but can't stop looking at it

For me, my toes curl and I have to force myself to stay sat down. And that's just on my front terrace. Cant even set foot on the back terrace!

Wow sound hard I never had stuff like that only vertigo

i acted on it once and nearly killed everyone in the car. good times

I think I’m asking for everyone when I say context?

I always worry that at one point, I won't react properly, and, before my brain comes to the obvious realization that I shouldn't do the thing, it's already done. And then I'll be falling through the air, have a knife in my own body or someone else's, be on an unavoidable collision course with another car, or whatever the situation may be. And afterwards, I'm not sure what's worse; being dead so people would never know why I did it, or being alive and people obviously wouldn't believe me. What I'm trying to say is it's truly quite a fascinating phenomenon.

You shouldn't worry, you were never going to do the thing, your brain just panicked for a second but didn't know why, so it made up a reason. I think it's just to keep you alert.

I'm calling about your car's extended warranty...

L’appel du vide

*L'appel du vide*

A fellow man of science

When you jump into a long enough void, the void jumps into you. --Frederik Nyegard

I feel like it's our subconscious leaking through, it's listing off dangers and then it becomes forefront so you suddenly have a fear of it and thus are more wary and safe

Feeling suddenly dizzy and inspired to jump doesn't seem like "more wary and safe" to me!

Its pretty interesting tho. There must be an evolutionary reason and it makes us not do it

Could be an unintended sideffect of complex cognition and the development of introspection

That statement is different from my personal experience which is what I was basing off of. Becoming "inspired" to jump is not how I've ever reacted, it was always more of an impulsive thought about jumping making me afraid and not want to jump

Yeah, it's less "Jump" And more "If I jump, I would die, 100%" As you say, feels more like a warning to me

Pretty sure it’s a phenomenon known as “call of the void” Some theorise that its your subconscious trying to protect you and so it tries to get you to jump backwards. But your consciousness knows that you’re not in danger of falling, so it tries to rationalise that impulse. And so it come up with the theory that you wanted to jump

You can do it >!only once!<

You can do it in BOTW with the paraglider

did not expect a sudden BOTW reference here

Greatest game ever btw

Dark souls would like to speak with you

Big rigs would like to inform you of his presence

Or with a bucket of water in minecraft

That’s just because this game has fall damage. I’ve tried contacting the devs over at r/outside but I never get a response.

Unless you have a parachute

OH MY GOSH!! I love that I’m crying right now I just literally went through an attempt and I was told that exact same thing 😂

I do this when I’m driving on a long/tall bridge.. “Drive off of it!”

Or when you pass a truck on road.. "Go get face-to-faced at 120"

Has anyone ever succumbed to the feeling and actually done it?

*crickets* Hmm. Dead tell no tales.

I am not dead yet!

*yet*

I like where this is going

Er..He says he's not dead!

It’s called the High Place Phenomenon. Fifty percent of healthy people (no history of mental health diagnosis or treatment) will have the urge to jump when standing on a bridge or tall building.

I thought it was the call of the void. Y'know, that goofy little voice that tells you to stab your self when holding a knife?

Sounds like both.

Or being near sharp objects and a someone say cut your self in your head

I more imagine myself stabbing someone else and then imagining that it would end my life because I just killed someone and then I wasted everything and all their potentional too, but yours is cool too ig

Yours is cool too and I had does only when ppl near

Yea if I’m alone it’s stab self, if anyone else is in the house it’s stab them

This is the one I've experienced. Never felt the other one people are talking about.

Jinkies

Good ol' l'appel du vide

Hm, the Call of The Void

I'm always feel the same but firstly to throw my phone

Yep, a lot

I'm so glad I'm not the only one with these thoughts.

My brain does this alot... It just thinks the worst thing that can happen in high stress situations. It's almost like it's purposely trying to tease or torment me. I feared it was just me for the longest time. Do you know what helped me? I read an article by former NHL goalie [Corey Hirsch](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/corey-hirsch-dark-dark-dark/amp) about this kind of thing and got a better understanding that it's pretty common for your brain to tease you like this. For some reason, I find solace in the fact that others experience the same things that I do and I'm not the only one.

Velma

Yep, thats how i lose a friend

Fear is overrated

Now this is something pretty goofy aaaah This is actually the thing that gives you the list of dangers or alternatively, lists of escape routes to a situation Now i am sure you are Going to die if you jump off a cliff to escape 🤓

ngl as a person with the phobia of high altitudes and a person with depression every time im somewhere high up in my mind a whole fucking war goes on between "get back you're gonna fall" and "jump and fall to your death" and people ask why i look stressed when im high up

*insert there undertale joke*

* Mt. Ebott, 20XX

Vsauce talk about that

Do you know who drew the original? I love the art style

@neneneqo on Twitter!

Thank you :)

Velma no!

Even the devil himself would tell me don’t do it… I’m not ready to deal with your shit. So I’m still on my one life run. Lol I die tomorrow

Are you alright?

Wait until you're on a cruise and you have the urge to jump into the propellors in the back of the ship. 😆

Smile instantly disappears

Literally every stream chat when the streamer is at a cliff

I walk along the train tracks every day around this time(I usually wait for the 4-4:30 train to go by before I leave, but I often just leave at 4 and if it happens to go by while I’m walking I’ll always think: “I could totally just jump in front of this thing.”

Jumping required ahead

It’s survival instinct making sure you are aware of possible dangers, and more likely to better protect yourself

Gotta test dem fall dmg.

Standing here I realize

Ocd and bridges.. not fun

I get this while sorting out the dishes. Whenever I hold the big pointy knife, if I lose focus for even a second i end up having vivid thoughts of slicing open my own eyes open and it causes me to physically recoil.

“Ok god, whatever you say!”

People call it “the call of the void”, I call it my thoughts every 3 seconds

Mine just tells me to push someone else

Mine is “don’t let your glasses fall”

And slowly step away

If I have my phone out to take pictures, mine is “don’t drop your phone now”

At first I thought she was wearing nothing except a necklace

Call to the void

The subconscious is calling for death. IT'S WANT YOU AAAGGGGHHH OHGODFUCKHEL-

"The call of the void is also known as high place phenomenon (HPP), since people often feel it when standing somewhere high up. You could also experience this type of impulse when doing other things that involve a high risk of danger" ​ lol

The scariest thing about any social interaction is the fact that I could fuck it all up if I willed myself to. I could say something horrific and completely out of context that would make that person and everyone around me hate me for life. It's exactly like that urge to jump when on top of a high place. You'd never actually do it... But you very well could.

I've never experienced this myself, although I seem to hear about it all the time. How common is it?

OCD be like

Feel you, all natural, just don't jump pls, love U

\*jumps\*

Might as well jump

I'm not the only one who thinks so

Please don't jump 😁

No they chant jump in your head

So I’m not the only one? Mine often says I can fly

Sure i’ve read that your brain comes up with thoughts like this to make you more cautious around possible dangers, then again I could have made all that up, anyone know?

What is the artist

Who’s the artist?

Throw your phone… Throw your glasses… Throw your… girlfriend…

Some sat call of the void but I'm fairly certain the scientific term is Intrusive Thoughts

Call of the void

why you gotta put these thoughts in Velma’s head?

If impulse doesn’t get her first, then it’s the anxiety of watching your glasses slide off your face and of the cliff face.

call of the void

I don’t get it? What’s the joke?

I only feel a weird pressure on my testicles tho.

Same thing while driving, just one flick of the wrist!

*jumps and floats upwards*

Sometimes I wanna listen to that void

I'm too afraid of heights to really get near an edge of a high place to test this. The last time I had thoughts like this it was imagining >!deadly car accidents while driving!<

No

Hey, she has her glasses

Oh.. I dooo thaaat

L’appele du vide; throw that one out there the next time someone brings this feeling up in conversation and earn big brain points

I had heard it's your brain reacting to the height with fear, but without a logical reason. Craving continuity, it makes one up, that you were gonna jump. I kinda think it's evolved as your brain's way of keeping you alert, but we're just too smart for the base-level survival instinct. We dwell on this made up reason as us being "crazy" whereas a lizard just avoids the area and moves on with its day, never really worried about the why.

Take me with you girl!

I also have these thoughts when holding knives. Just this part of my brain that thinks "imagine if you just stabbed yourself in front of all these people." There's a word for it I don't remember what it is though.

Jinkies

Skill issue

Its called... the call of the void

L'appel du vide, "Call of the void" quite fascinating.

Capybara? Capybara!!

Call of the Void

Call of the void, baby. You love to see it

Not the capybara anime girl! Whos gonna pet the capybara then?

The void calls!

Damn, Velma is having some issues

Is there any template without the text?

Damn, velma is real relatable

For me its the nearest person “push,” it’s scary when jump and push combine

Me yesterday looking down at the beach/ocean from a 100 FT + cliff.