When I went skydiving, my body did it, and I was somewhere else at the time. I saw, and tried to talk myself through it, but body did what body did (it was a so

When I went skydiving, my body did it, and I was somewhere else at the time. I saw, and tried to talk myself through it, but body did what body did (it was a solo dive and I landed fine). I had no experience, no fear or joy or anything about it. I just watched myself do it. The instructor jumped with me, and was nearby giving hand signals like "check altitude", and I would indeed turn my head towards the altimeter, but to save my life I couldn't tell you what it said. I talked to a paratrooper years later, and he said some people just do that. They disassociate completely from the experience. It's probably not a good thing, since you're basically in shock, doing the work to stay alive and not really a "team player". but it is what it is.