Show HN: Bodily Oddities
- ID
- 23809
- Status
- new
- Published
- 11 Sep 2026, 4:33 AM
- Fetched
- 13 Sep 2026, 4:56 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Excerpt
When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying him around on my back, presumably pretending to be a multipart attack robot. All of a sudden, my heart started hurting, and I collapsed to my knees, and the robot was no more. Every time I inhaled, it would feel like a spike was being driven into my heart, and my breathing got completely shallow. I was sure I was done for, when all of a sudden, after an exhale, it disappeared.It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I learned this was called Precordial catch syndrome and it happens to most everyone. Every friend I've told about it was surprised, and also most knew the feeling.I collected a growing list of strange things bodies do ever since. And now finally I made it into a little page for others to see:https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/It includes a form to tell me about new things, if you think they belong on the page. Feedback welcome! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649789
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