My wife learned to do this because she was bored in class as a kid.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      It’s a nice little party trick too. When iphones could first detect heart rates, some of my friends were talking about it, so I said that I could slow my heart rate down. None of them believed me, so I got them to measure it. Once it was done I asked them if they wanted it to be faster or slower. They still didn’t believe me, so I did both.

      It’s one of those silly little things that isn’t really useful, but can shut your friends up for a bit :p

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      8 days ago

      Oh it’s definitely gotta be because of that. My current record for heart rate is 46bpm before I start to feel faint!