What is "The Choking Game?"

Self-asphyxiation-choking each other or themselves, which produces a kind of high. Press people up against a wall, until they didn’t have any oxygen, until they passed out. Likely they repeat it over and over again for hours. They use bags, belts, ties, or even their own bare hands, causing hypoxia, a shortage of oxygen. Basically, it’s a very dangerous play where the person deprives his brain of oxygen. By reducing the blood pressure the brain basically starts an irreversible process of dying. The variation in blood pressure may also cause strokes, seizures, and retinal damage.

There is inadequate research on the practice, but medical and forensic experts estimate that 250 to 1,000 young people die in the United States each year from some variant of the choking game. Many are reported as suicides.

Teens describe this game as "A game known as the 'pass-out game,' the 'fainting game,' the 'tingling game,' or the 'something dreaming game." The activity is traditional and world-wide, passed down for generations in schoolyards, summer camps and neighborhoods. The following is a list of all the names this game could possibly be called. See the list below so that parents have an awareness as to what their teens are discussing and possibility participating with their peers.

Other Names: The Fainting Game, Airplaning, America Dream Game, Black Out Game, Breath Play, California Choke, California Dreaming, California High, California Knockout, Choke Out, Dream Game, Dreaming Game, Flatline Game, Flat Liner, Flatliner Game, Funky Chicken, Harvey Wallbanger, Hyperventilation Game, Knockout Game, Pass-out Game, Passing Out Game, Natural High, Sleeper Hold, Space Cowboy, Space Monkey, Suffocation Game, Suffocation Roulette, Teen Choking Game, Rising Sun, High Riser, Tingling Game, Trip to Heaven, and a Rocket Ride.

What Attracts Teens to this "Game?"

The attractions are numerous. It is done as a dare. It can induce a brief sense of euphoria; it is reported to enhance erotic feelings. It is amusing to some to watch others losing consciousness or behaving erratically, the prospect of an altered state of consciousness, the experience of a "brownout," (meaning: Brownout may refer to a dimming of the vision caused by loss of blood pressure or hypoxia,) or more recently, copy-catting elements of the film "Flatliners" (which is an "R" rated movie, Restricted "no one Under 17" requires accompanying parent or adult).
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Please Talk with the kids about this game it's serious and dangerous.

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