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So I was driving home from work and I see an SUV doing ridiculous speeds come out of an on-ramp and flip three times over the highway, narrowly dodging a car in front of me by like ten feet. The car in front and I carefully swerve over to the side of the road that's accessible, jump out, and a lady and I book it across the highway to get to the SUV and see if everyone's okay while the woman's husband calls 911. The driver (only person in the car) is okay, tentatively, as she can talk and move and isn't missing anything. Eight more people decide to pull over and run up. One woman who comes in late is super-fat and starts screaming "EXCUSE ME I HAVE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON THE PHONE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON" and the person who came with me proceeds to tell her to back the fuck off and she's dumb and the person obviously needs some space and not to have snorlax walking over and suffocating her, except in a nice way. So the paramedics arrive, and we make statements, and we proceed to run back across the road, and the woman who came with me at first mentions that the driver's eyes were waaaay dilated and she didn't smell alcohol but she thinks she was probably on something.
So I'm wondering if she was probably right, or if just having a concussion or being in shock from your car flipping over three times would be enough to dilate your pupils and make you seem out of it?
What if you lost control of your vehicle and it started tokyo drifting like the tazmanian devil?
You'd have to be going pretty fast
and be pretty furious
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited August 2008
Head trauma can definitely cause dilated pupils, as can direct trauma to the eyes. This can be the result of a concussion, although generally the pupils are mismatched in this case. However, if you really rattle your eyes around, you can "stun" the mechanism that controls your pupil, causing pronounced dilation in one or both eyes. This is easily the sort of thing that could result from a rollover crash.
Or hey, they could have just been all coked up and tooling down the freeway. That happens too.
A concussion, fight or flight and intracranial hemorrhage all can cause dilated pupils.
I was in a wreck about seven years ago and got my bell rung; yeah, a concussion will dilate your pupils 'cause the sheriff on the scene thought he needed to do a sobriety test when I hadn't consumed a drop of alcohol in about two days.
fear causes your pupils to dilate
it's part of the fight or flight response, adrenaline rushes through your body and your pupils dilate to take in more light and information for assessing your situation/best course of action
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You'd have to be going pretty fast
and be pretty furious
Or hey, they could have just been all coked up and tooling down the freeway. That happens too.
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They were fascist german americans out for eastern european jew blood.
I think she just hates my parents.
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I was in a wreck about seven years ago and got my bell rung; yeah, a concussion will dilate your pupils 'cause the sheriff on the scene thought he needed to do a sobriety test when I hadn't consumed a drop of alcohol in about two days.
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im just quoting this cause you have mos def as your avatar
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it's part of the fight or flight response, adrenaline rushes through your body and your pupils dilate to take in more light and information for assessing your situation/best course of action
you can read all about it on wikipedia!
edit: yeah dublo said it already durr hurr
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yeah son. well i'm moving to canada in like a week so let's do it.
Shock, I imagine could do it, as well. I think adrenaline tends to screw with that kind of a thing.
Then again so does sweet lady mescaline.
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Not heroin though, gives you pinpoints instead.
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why
we should both start skateboarding to each other and we will meet at the halfway point
Where is Gregor when we need him!
How accurate is this description of Halifax?
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alright plan to meet at a gas station in winnipeg in three month's time.
even this thread made me dilate
i was like
woah /dilate