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Stress-induced analgesia :) SIA is your body's way of saying "fuck pain, I'm gonna survive." Your body kicks out tons of endogenous opiates like enkephalins and endorphins which, in most circumstances, allows you to ignore the pain for long enough to get away from the danger. Everyone thinks it's adrenaline, but you really have endogenous opiates to thank for that lack of pain. Man, I love pain research. Shit is fascinating as hell.

EDIT: Holy shit, I got gold!?! Living the dream, folks :) Thank you kind redditor.

dear god you're fabulous.

They're just hoping he'll forget the claim.

Yep. My Master's thesis was on artificially inducing SIA, but it turns out it's pretty hard to induce in an experimental setting. The brain just knows it's not real. I'm in grad school for experimental psychology. While the majority of my research is about quantitative methods, one of my biggest passions is pain perception (mainly experimental, not chronic). I find it incredibly fascinating. I've been dying to standardize my favorite method of pain induction (the cold pressor), but sadly that will have to wait until after I finish school (no one here does pain research outside of the medical school, and I am too squeamish for med school- plus, I'm a psychologist and statistician at heart.