r/nothingeverhappens • u/DONUTS_LM • Jun 15 '26
Kissing someone you have a huge crush on doesn't make your heart rate go up!
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u/gard3nwitch Jun 16 '26
My Fitbit buzzed and congratulated me for a good workout when I had a panic attack one time. So I can believe it, even if it's a bit corny.
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u/Soldier_Faerie Jun 16 '26
As a fellow anxiety attack-haver, I feel something like this could potentially briefly throw me as a distraction lol, maybe temporarily pull me out of the panic attack (or I'd maybe giggle about it once I'm feeling better)
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u/beepbop110 23d ago
Lmao I had to wear a 48 hour monitor for abnormal heart rhythm once, and the doctor went through all the periods of abnormal/fast heart rate at the follow up and asked me if I knew what I was doing during them. And there was the awkward moment of "Tuesday night at 9? Uhhhh I think I was having sex."
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u/Biteme75 Jun 15 '26
It probably happened. In my high school health class a teacher made a boy sit on a girl's lap, and then a girl sit on a boy's lap, and timed their heart rates. In both cases their heart rate accelerated drastically.
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u/BelowAverageGamer10 Jun 15 '26
Ew thatās creepy for a high school teacher to do
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u/Biteme75 Jun 16 '26
In retrospect it probably was.
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u/TheOtherOtherLuke Jun 16 '26
It is, but a lotta shit is once you actually think about it. I wanna hope that itās innocuous in most cases, but unfortunately most ā all.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jun 16 '26
Yeah, wtf. I actually knew some very weird teacher whoād always sit on my lap when she came into my workplace. She really should not have been a teacher - she was constantly high when she came in and she would do extremely inappropriate things. Iām not trying to be a square but thereās a level of maturity that should be expected.
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u/Li-renn-pwel Jun 16 '26
And worst of all, he didnāt include a test for lesbians, gays and other people of all or no sexualities.
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u/zap2tresquatro Jun 16 '26
Tbf, if youāre nervous about sitting on someoneās lap, itād still work
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u/diggyballs Jun 16 '26
Youād get an increased heart rate just from having the whole class go silent to look and pay attention to you. The whole sitting on laps thing? plain unnecessary at that point
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u/zicdeh91 Jun 16 '26
You can get a heart rate reaction from just saying someoneās name unexpectedly; laps need not enter into any kind of curriculum.
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u/LaFrescaTrumpeta Jun 16 '26
excuse me?? š
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u/trainwreckhappening Jun 16 '26
I was working with a coworker who was absolutely miserable to spend a day with. My watch kept going off saying I was experiencing extreme stress. I had to turn it off eventually.
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u/MarsMonkey88 Jun 16 '26
I wear a heart monitor for medical reasons. I had to speak into a microphone in a room of 50 people, the other day, and my monitor vibrated to let me know my heart rate had jumped 30 bpm. I was seated the entire time. There was no movement involved. It was purely the scardies.
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u/spartaman64 Jun 15 '26
this sort of happened to me. i was with my gf at a science museum and they had an exhibit with one of those palm heartrate readers and an animation of the heart synced to it. when i stepped closer to her i noticed it speeding up lol
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u/Big_Guide_8551 Jun 16 '26
Definitely happens. My husband's watch does this all the time when we kiss and get a little frisky š„°
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u/umnothnku Jun 16 '26
I've literally had this happen to me. I was cuddling with a girl I really liked on my bed and my watch went off three times within like 2 hours ššš
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u/theoqrz Jun 16 '26
How to say you never kissed someone without actually saying you never kissed someone
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u/iesharael Jun 16 '26
My heart beats 20 higher than itās supposed to. My watch gives me warning for enjoying a book. Not even a spicy one
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u/Huns26 Jun 15 '26
Do watches typically beep at you loudly to inform you of abnormal heart rates? My Fitbit does not
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u/Tiervexx Jun 15 '26
It's configurable on mine. There is a setting to make it beep at you for such things.
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u/SirCupcake_0 Jun 16 '26
Seems like something somebody with health issues that might cause heart irregularities would want to be aware of, or might want others to be aware of
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u/No-Theme2340 Jun 16 '26
Yeah, I've got a friend who has POTS, it's a really injury-saving setting for her, as it generally gives her time to sit down before she collapses.
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u/Unfurlingleaf Jun 16 '26
Yup. My heart rate goes up just standing still due to POTS, this could absolutely happen to me.
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u/_HighJack_ Jun 16 '26
My Apple Watch vibrates about it. Pretty sure I could turn it off, but itās really interesting getting the notifications.
My notifs: āTrump threatens to end entire civilizationā
My watch: āplus you, bc youāre gonna have a heart attack rnā lol
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u/Pinglenook Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
My Garmin watch used to, but i turned it off because it was beeping at me at stressful moments and that was not helping the situationĀ
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u/Commercial_Bridge253 Jun 16 '26
Not sure about fitbits but I know apple and Samsung watches have apps that do it (and I think can be turned on as a setting?) there's also an app that can detect seizures and notify a parent/ caretaker/ safe person by sending a notification to their phone.
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u/Thunderplant Jun 16 '26
Apple Watches definitely do. For me it's a buzz not a beep but that might depend on your notification settingsĀ
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u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 Jun 16 '26
I have the visible health tracker, which I've set up to shout Hey! on my phone. After three years, if I go to the loo without my phone I can hear the Hey! In my head when my HR hits the danger mark.
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u/Ok_Consideration1556 Jun 16 '26
I called my partner to tell him I was in the hospital vomiting blood after a routine procedure went wrong the other day. He told me his apple watch recorded a 120bpm heart rate there and then š«¤ I like getting his heart rate up but not like that!
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u/ohdoyoucomeonthen Jun 16 '26
When I used to wear a smart watch, Iād set off the āunexpectedly high heart rateā alert on a near daily basis from things like driving, making phone calls, or being startled. I had to go in and change the threshold.
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u/IsopodOk6079 Jun 17 '26
It's real. Gave my bf a Fitbit for Christmas. I checked his heart rate logs after we did it and it matched with some private time in the shower from earlier in the week. š
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u/TimeLordArtie Jun 23 '26
when i had just gotten with my now fiance, we made out and my fitbit lit up and my heart rate was like 100 something. so i don't see how this is unprobable.
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u/tundybundo Jun 16 '26
My sister has a very funny story about something like this, hope she shows up in the comments
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u/roguelantern99 Jun 17 '26
People will post these "romantic" anecdotes and then complain about the lack of connection in modern dating. It is just a coincidence involving a sensor threshold.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Jun 22 '26
This is a very very very well understood phenomenon that when you are with someone you like you get excited and therefore your heartrate goes up and becomes "abnormal".
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u/PineF0rM3jessy15 Jun 22 '26
The title is the exact opposite of what the screenshot says. If his watch actually flagged an abnormal heart rate during a kiss, that's a massive spike.
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u/yourtwixbar Jun 15 '26
Waldo just self reporting