Brit_in_Japan

"Spontaneous Human Combustion" is itself a misnoma. Living human beings do not suddenly burst into flames of their own accord.

There are documented examples of dead bodies combusting, but not living people.

Eddscott, check your pulse. If you have one you will not spontaneously combust, ever, full stop. If you don't have a pulse don't worry, dead people feel no pain

mad_dr

From what I can remember - all the cases of "human combustion" have shown the victims in bed or in a chair by a fire etc. Now call me silly, but if I was sitting in a chair and I caught fire, I wouldn't just keep sitting there until I was BBQ.

They'd find me in the bathtub.

As has been said - pretty much all of the victims are old fatties who sat too close to the 3 Bar fire.

Get yourself to a doctor about the tingling etc - could be asthma or some kind of heart palpitation - probably easily cured, but worth getting a professional opinion on.

Meanwhile - don't worry about the combustion. You're many thousands of times more likely to meet some kind of demise from your toothbrush than you are to start to smoulder unassisted.

scoobymoo

Its the weed, in my early 20s I used to smoke sh*tloads of the stuff (1/16 a dayfor four years) and panic attacks like the ones you describe are what stopped me. I had all sorts of irrational thoughts about dying and cancer and such like. I remember once watching the thunderbirds while stoned and it was about these people trapped underground slowly suffocating and it sent me into a real panic attack thinking about suffocating etc I literally couldn't stop thinking about it for days afterwards. I also had severe back problems at the time and I thought I had cancer in my back, I do medical research for a living so knew that it was incredibly unlikely to get cancer in your spine and but that didn't stop me thinking about it constantly, even when it was diagnosed as slipped disc I still worried they might have got it wrong. Sometimes I would be literally shaking with fear over it and several times burst into tears over it(funnily enough I never worried about what the dope smoking was doing to my lungs, a far more obvious cancer worry). Eventually I realised it was the dope that was causing it as I every time I had a spliff my irrational fears would intensify and I'd start thinking about death and dying again. After stopping the weed it took me about a month to feel normal in the head again. I have only smoked weed twice since then (and not at all for 12 years) and both times it immediately made me feel paranoid and panicky. Lay off the weed and after a few weeks you will feel fine.

ProperCharlie

smoking weed can definitely cause irrational paranoia. i good friend of mine went schitzo (literally ) after a big smokeout. I had a few bad experiences after ingesting far too much of the stuff. have't touched it for about 5 years now - feel better for it.

Apparition

Did something happen in your early years ? Did someone put this idea into your impressionable young head? Maybe having a talk with an expert would lay your fears to rest.

Ray_li

Ah ha. "Im telling the truth officer. He self cumbusted" Now I know what to say

EddScott

I honestly don't remember what sparked (lol) it off. Scoobymoo describes the experience and causes to the letter near enough. I smoked myself silly after school and spending every other month in the Sanctuary in Milton Keynes probably didn't help matters either.

Had a look round the net last night about it as a sort of face the fear and see what happens. Now I've actually talked about it I feel much better.

Scoobynet saves the day!!!! is there nothing it can't do?