It doesn't appear like that if you've seen people pass out enough.
Labored breathing
Badly wobbly legs
Staring off into nowhere
Complete lack of a reaction to catch themselves.
The last one is the worst. It's very instinctual to catch yourself, and trained people catch themselves in very specific and safe ways. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can muster enough consciousness to curl, roll, or get out a hand.
But if you are passed out before you hit the ground, you don't catch yourself at all, which results in rather brutal landings and a high likelihood for injuries that you'd normally think a fall wouldn't be serious enough to cause. You wouldn't think you could get a serious concussion, a broken jaw, broken nose, and broken teeth from falling face first onto concrete, but you absolutely can.
Oh, don't get out a hand, that's how I broke my wrist last year. Kinda knew it was going to be bad as I hung in the air like Charlie Brown (slipped on the ice on concrete.)
I remember seeing lots of people just fucking crumple from heat exhaustion. Concrete parade square + hot, sunny, humid Southwestern Ontario summer. Though people were told not to let themselves get that far, and take a knee when they saw the purple spots.
When I fell from internal bleeding, I fell flat forward, and couldn't move a muscle. Was totally aware and in pain right up until a doctor put a gas mask on my face (and I had to wait a while until my husband got home before an ambulance could be called. I dunno how long. And that's why we now have a talking cylinder.)
That looks so exaggerated and fake.
Not sure why you're downvoted. At the very least, it appears like this. I'm willing to be proven wrong, as apparently I am.
It doesn't appear like that if you've seen people pass out enough.
The last one is the worst. It's very instinctual to catch yourself, and trained people catch themselves in very specific and safe ways. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can muster enough consciousness to curl, roll, or get out a hand.
But if you are passed out before you hit the ground, you don't catch yourself at all, which results in rather brutal landings and a high likelihood for injuries that you'd normally think a fall wouldn't be serious enough to cause. You wouldn't think you could get a serious concussion, a broken jaw, broken nose, and broken teeth from falling face first onto concrete, but you absolutely can.
Oh, don't get out a hand, that's how I broke my wrist last year. Kinda knew it was going to be bad as I hung in the air like Charlie Brown (slipped on the ice on concrete.)
I remember seeing lots of people just fucking crumple from heat exhaustion. Concrete parade square + hot, sunny, humid Southwestern Ontario summer. Though people were told not to let themselves get that far, and take a knee when they saw the purple spots.
When I fell from internal bleeding, I fell flat forward, and couldn't move a muscle. Was totally aware and in pain right up until a doctor put a gas mask on my face (and I had to wait a while until my husband got home before an ambulance could be called. I dunno how long. And that's why we now have a talking cylinder.)
Even so, significant damage to a wrist is still better than significant damage to a skull. Worst case, you have another wrist.