I'm not sure why but when you said "this is what I'm alive for" I burst out into tears. I feel like that perfectly describes how your experiences and feelings should be described as. Maybe your life doesn't have a purpose but maybe your life is the purpose. Idk, thank you for this vid dodie, you help my life make sense xx
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you derealized and jumped out of a plane honestly this is so inspirational ily dodie. i never realized there could be a time that disassociating could actually be useful
"1, 2... and we just... fell" i loved that moment. idk why i loved it so much, but i did, and... this video is ao gorgeous and pure and makes me so happy and appreciative. and proud. goddamnit, i am so proud of you, Dodie. you've done so much and gotten through so much and these feels like a testament to it. and i love that. well done Dodie, i love you.
i watched a lecture on depression the other day, and the man doing the lecture had a really good definition imo : "depression is when you can't appreciate the beauty of a sunset." and so when you talked about crying about the beauty of the world i felt so happy for you and i teared up bc it's so true !! love u lots
Thoughts that went through my head as I fell out of a plane: "OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OH THANK GOD THE PARACHUTE WORKS"
"I just couldn't believe how beautiful the world was and how for the first time in so so long and I could really..truly appreicate that..I could've died then and it would have been worth it." mY HEART
Beebø no no no no no no!! Just thinking about jumping out of a plane is making my knees shake!! Oh my goodness... The only thing I fear more than heights are spiders... Lol..
Dodie this gave me so many feels. I cried when you were so happy and emotional in the CokeTV video and this one almost made me cry again! I'm so happy for you!
Your descriptions were so absolutely adventurous and lovely! It felt like I was there- sky diving is something I constantly reject doing, but this video is definitely making me reconsider. :-)
my dad tried to go skydiving one time. he did training and everything, but when they got in the plane, they told him it was too windy and they couldnt go. this was a while back and hes still never gone. one day i plan to take him
I feel like this might freak someone out more They’d just have the thought of why do they need a back up if there’s no chance of the first failing Then they might go into thinking the back up would fail
Is this the start of extreme sports Dodie? But honestly I watched the video today and was so happy for you. I knew how much you weren't going to do it and how you never thought you could! But then you did it and I was so happy for you to overcome that fear. I hope one day I get an opportunity like that and have the courage to say yes
dodie...you did it you said you didn't want to and that was fine but then you thought...not in an anxious way but you didn't have to wait with that anxiety on your back and with that you concurred it and I'm so so proud of you
there is something about your voice that makes me feel so calm, honestly I think I could hear you speak for hours and hours, it makes me feel same and at peace. I'm so so so so damn happy for you Dodie, I deal with anxiety and also the feeling of "not being there" as if I was just an espectator of my own life and seeing someone being actually content and enjoying their life is sooo nice because I feel like I'll feel that too eventually, thank you for sharing this amazing experince!!!
Hearing you talk about this whole experience and the way you felt just filled me up with so much warmth and I cried a little. This was absolutely wonderful! Videos like this remind me how much I love just simple storytelling videos. There's so much value to just listening to people tell you how they felt in a moment and you don't need fancy effects or a huge budget and it's just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm going to save this for a bad day and watch it again to remind myself that the world can be a really great place.
Hey Dodie! I was really sad (and very nauseous) at my 5 to 8:30 band rehearsal and I thought I'd go home and collapse, but then i watched this video and it made me happy. You being happy made me happy and I'm so glad you got to experience skydiving! I used to be terrified of even the idea of skydiving, but now im having second thoughts because of this video. I hope you have a good week! :)
I honesty cried when you said you'd been waiting to feel like that your whole life because I understand what you mean so deeply and like sometimes my depression and anxiety si so heavy I don't have any positive emotions for long periods of times and then when they do happen its like the best thing that's ever happen to you, those moments of peace and contentment keep you grounded and remind you why you're alive.
This is one of the rare things in the past month that has made me feel truly inspired! Your poetic description of sky diving and the fact I relate so much to your anxiety problems (despite being an adventurous person) is really pushing me to try it too! Thank you, Dodie
I am an aviation geek. I love planes. I love flying airplanes, taking off, breathe in how wonderful our planet is and land it by myself and get out of the plane with the biggest smile you might have ever seen. I am scared of heights, though (Yes, that is possible)... :D And which is most important: I would never jump out of a plane (since it is abuse of aviators rescue tools or what ever you would call that in English- I translated it word for word from German...) !!!! You can be proud of yourself and maybe because of you I will try this f***ing misbehaviour in aerospace once in my lifetime... I'm pretty sure I'd love it, if I tried. :D Sorry for this weird comment... I'm pumped somehow... I want to try it. If you can do it, I can do it as well... don't I? :)
this strangely made me very anxious?? up until the part you started to describe how you truly felt, then i burst into tears. aaa thank you for sharing this with us, it made my stomach turn a bit but it definitely made my heart dance. :)
When you talked about not having to try to be in the moment, not trying to appreciate and experience it, and you just did, I nearly wept while you were talking about it. I'm still waiting to feel that effortless joy, that moment of what can only be described as perfection. However, it made my entire fricking month hearing that you got to experience it and that you did something so crazy and it was wonderful. So thank you for that
I'm honestly so happy for you. You're getting closer to overcoming anxiety and fear of heights. I feel like you deserve these things so much. It always takes me so long to come to realization, and I'm happy some of it has come to you.
So proud of you DODIE!!! I love the way you explained the experience, I could understand how you felt even though I haven't jumped out a plane.... Best bed time story ever :) (it's awesome that you were able to enjoy it :D
i watched this in 2016, now it’s 2023 and i’m skydiving tomorrow. i remembered this video and in my anxiety decided to watch it, crying at “this is what i’m alive for”. I CAN DO THIS!!! i can beat my anxiety. THIS is what I’m alive for
How are you so adorable. It's actually impossible to watch your videos without ending up grinning and feeling super happy and positive because YOU'RE SO CUTE AHHH! (I probably have a lowkey crush on you but IDC because you're so adorable)
I know this video is a little old, but I wanted to thank you for it, Dodie. You make me realize that you can live and be happy, no matter what your mental obstacles may be. That you can have these good memories even though things can seem bad in your head. Thank you for being so strong and so kind. Thank you thank you thank you
ahh dodie you talking about the clouds and the field made me cry so much ♡ and what you said about "this wasn't me"- the amazing thing is that it was you, it was all you! ♡
When I saw you actually jump off the plane (in the other video) I just started crying. Like im watching a movie, just so happy for you. The fact that there was happy epic music while you were falling didnt help with my emotions but yeah... I was just so happy for you and I've been following you for 3 years and that was just an emotional expirence. You dont personaly know me, but I do know you and I just felt overwhelmed and happy and GOSH basically congratulations I am so proud of you
Yeah it does look like a hickey, but occasionally getting really painful hormonal acne like she does, I do get large, inflamed, pink bumps on my neck that look like that, so we can never know for sure. xD She does seem to have another one on the other side during her CokeTV video, so if they're practically symmetrical like that, I just end up assuming from personal experience that it's acne.
lol your explanation of the sort of process of doing something that terrifies you and getting all the gut-wrenching anxiety but then getting that feeling of like being on top of the world is so accurate, I've never been able to put it into words but you did perfectly
I honestly love listening to you talk about your experience. You just sound so happy, so elated- like you said when you saw the world from the plane, when there are no words. It's beautiful. It makes me happy- and I'm glad you're happy, too!
Oh you little legend, well done! I wouldn't be surprised if the UK skydiving industry (because that must be a thing) gets a spike in interest from the people watching this video. You've tempted me! Bungee jumping, I think that's my big NEVER WILL I EVER... how do you feel about that idea?
I relate so much to the part about appreciating the moment. I struggle so much with trying to live in the moment and trying so hard to enjoy everything and it always just stresses me out. Hearing you explain how you were able appreciate and just be in the moment is really inspiring to me.
Thank you Dodie! this made me so happy -- dealing with depression right now, and to see you SOO happy and to hear about Skydiving was just what i needed tonight. I appreciate you -- Cheers!!
just listening to you talk about it made me happy. it brought back memories of when i last felt that way -- immensely happy and like everything was okay. i was in gibraltar and walked to the very top of the rock and looked all around me. it was so beautiful i started to tear up. thank you for this dodie. for a brief 10 minutes, you helped me bring back that nostalgic feeling i thought i had forgotten.
I did a skydive about two years ago and whilst I was about 300 or so metres from the ground the parachute collapsed- definitely the most terrifying moment of my life. Me and the instructor the I was strapped to fell for about 100 metres before the winds changed and re-inflated the parachute (thank the gods). After an extremely bumpy landing the first thing my instructor shouted was "WE'RE ALIVE!!"... Comforting, right? That being said, I'd definitely do it again- I mean what are the odds of me almost dying twice?? (Famous last words I guess)
I've just been watching this video and smiling so much every time Dodie talks about the sense of joy she felt. I'm so lucky not to have experienced depression, but watching her videos have taught me not to take my happiness for granted. And. I'm just so happy that she can experience happiness really and truly and probably even more intensely than I have. "Long live the high tide, long live the low, but most of all, long live the difference." The Dodie's difference is living. It's living.
when I read that title of this vid I thought of an episode of spn where a dude gets possessed by a demon and jumps out of the plane while the plane is in the air and they all die
When you said you weren't obsessing over feeling in the moment, over trying to feel happy, I almost started crying, because nobody has ever described that to me before. I knew I wasn't alone in depression, but that specific feeling of trying to be happy, trying to take in what's around you and be present and be happy and appreciate it, is such a big thing to me, and you nailed it right on the head. So thank you for making me feel like I'm not alone.
It has been so long since someone has touched me in a way you have tonight with this video. Just hearing you say words out loud that I say in my head all the time. Obsessing about EVERYTHING and not giving yourself the opportunity to be in the moment is not the way to live and you just reminded me of that. Dodie thank you so much for sharing this! And way to be a badass!!!
This may be one of my favorite of your vlogs. Love the advice about getting yourself to say yes and jump even when it makes no sense and how those are the moments that make life amazing.
Congratulations Dodie, I'm so proud of your achievement, watching the Coke TV video made me cry knowing that you were going to do it, even when you were so adamant that wouldn't. It showed me that anything is possible :) love you Dodie xxx
dodie I cannot express how proud I am for you. I can't believe you did that and you didn't have to be forced. I'm glad you loved it hopefully this can lead to more amazing things for you to do 💕😙 much love
I was on the verge of quitting my musical theatre program Thank you For giving me the courage to not give up in this crazy claustrophobic situation That i cannot back out of cuz it was so much money Thank you
seeing you smile is literally one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen. It's like you are a second little sun shining just as bright as the other one. thank you for brightening my day Dodie. you have no idea how much you are helping me with vids like this.
before watching this, i thought i would never once go skydiving because i'm terrified of anything going wrong. i throw away lots of opportunities because i think that the one time i go and do something, it'll go bad and something won't work. however, after seeing this and hearing your experience, it makes want to go and do it. (i mean, i can't go skydiving yet, because i'm not old enough, but once i am old enough, i think i will)
This honestly inspired me so much. I'm only 15 but i've lived my life to the safest, not even liking roller coasters. Recently, I've grown so tired and so dreary of that. I was like you where it was absolute no go skydiving but seeing this and hearing about it, it's what i need. just watching this has inspired me to say yes to things and take risks even if my body and my anxiety is saying no no no. so thank you, so much, Dodie.
Flight attendant: be careful stepping out of the plane, there is a slight drop. RUclipsrs: *_this video_* yes I know I got that from Snapchat before you tell me.
I'm so proud of you Dodie! I've been watching you for years and I'm so happy that you were able to skydive and could appreciate the world like that! I hope you're able to do more stuff like this and be so happy!
I've wanted to go skydiving for years and years and have dreamt about the day I'm finally 18 and I'll be allowed to do it without my parents permission (same with tattoos) but it's just crazy because I'm almost 18. I'm nearly there. I've been dreaming about turning 18 since I was 11 and now I almost am holy shit where has the time gone.
this video makes me so happy the way you talk about this, the way you're so amazed, you're so happy, and it makes me happy too you're my huge inspiration thank you so much
This made me so happy to watch, well done!! I related so much to this, we went on a trip with school to Cape Town when I was 15 and it had been mentioned from the start that we could abseil down Table mountain if we wanted, I have a massive fear of heights so I had said 100% no way from the beginning. I told everyone every time we talked about it I couldn't. But then then closer and closer the time got to doing it and people were getting more excited I started saying "I wish I could but I know I just can't". On the day I ended up going up the mountain on the cable car for moral support and when I got to the top it was the most beautiful day and I'd never seen a view like it but also knew unless I came back somehow one day I would never see again - and i said yes. I've never panicked so much, let's be honest when you've chickened out of abseiling down something which is half the size of a house, its a bit of a step to do the highest natural abseil in the world! I felt a bit numb the whole way and don't remember a huge amount but the feeling at the bottom was one of the best I've ever felt, so so happy! I don't think I've ever felt so proud, fair to say I had my parents sobbing because they never thought I could do it. Well done Dodie, you should be so proud!
Great to hear you had such an awesome experience! I did my first skydive myself a few years ago now, and it was one of the coolest experiences possible. I struggle with mental illness a bit myself and I loved freefall more than anything in the world because for that moment that's all you can think about, for that moment you are entirely living, and it doesn't matter about all the other shit that's going on in your head, or the problems you left on the ground. At that specific moment in time all you're doing is flying. It was that which lead me to leave university and become a skydiver. I'm now close to 500 jumps, and still love it to this day. So happy to hear that you loved your first one, definitely come back for more!
Dodie, you are SO brave! Not just for the physical act of jumping out of that plane, but for the mental barriers you smashed! I've just watched the CokeTV video and I couldn't stop smiling 😃. Xx
Your description of falling sounds so beautiful, I teared up a bit. Although it was probably more like "OH GOD I FELL OUT OF A PLANE AHHH" I've craved that feeling for so long. I'm truly so proud of you.
Hi friendly people in the comment section. I'm getting ready for a 5-hour flight, and I have a massive amount of anxiety building up inside of me. I’ve never been on a plane before, and I’m terrified. If anyone has ANY advice for planes, please respond. Anything will be useful at this point.
If you have a laptop, I suggest you bring headphones or something and you can watch a movie. If you feel claustrophobic, look outside and down to the ground (it actually looks really cool from above and probably shouldn't rattle you too much.) Also, the bag they give you is your friend. Even if you don't throw up, you can use it to steady your breathing. Planes are generally very safe.
TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: 1)drink a LOT of water- planes are very dehydrating 2)a plane is just a plane. Millions of people go on planes and they are FINE. I promise you, nothing bad will happen, and anyway, everything is planned for for you. 3) try to go to the bathroom in the middle of the flight- there is usually turbulence in the takeoff and landing of the flight Good luck with the flight:)
Just remember that at any point there is near a million people in the air, flying and the chance of anything wrong happening is so incredibly small that you will be fine. Also concentrate on the bits you might enjoy like the food or reading or watching a movie because then you can basically forget that you are flying. :-) hope it goes well.
hi! I'm not sure what exactly you're anxious about, but I'll try to help anyways. (: I actually went on my first flight back in July (and then did five more in the span of three weeks--traveling whoop) and I remember being really nervous about the whole thing. What I found was to keep my mind off of the fact that we were high up in the air, was to think about how the plane was moving. Example, "Oh, look how the nose is starting to point up." "It's not pointing upwards anymore," etc. I also brought a book and my iPod with me to keep me distracted. This is kind of weird, but I also imagined it as if I were just on a big bus and any turbulence we experienced was simply us going on a bumpy road. I've used this next "trick" when I was feeling very overwhelmed a couple weeks ago (not on a plane though, but I think it should work on planes too). I simply looked around me, found different objects, and named what color they were. You could probably name stuff about it other than the color though--like how many you can see in the plane, something it reminds you of, etc. It made me feel more control in the situation and took my mind off my problems in the moment at least. Anyhoo, I hope I was at least a little bit of help to you. :) Have a nice flight!
my relatives live on the complete opposite side of the world to me, so all my life i've been taking 14 hour flights maybe once per year or two years, and never have i had a problem. the only reason you hear bad thing about planes is that people tend to focus on the rarities and circumstances that differ from the rest. planes are actually quite safe :) but I have a friend who's massively terrified of like planes and roller coasters inside, and what she does during takeoff and landing is basically grab onto my arm/someone she trusts and grounds herself in that person. if you're just looking for general advice: gum is generally very helpful for popping your ears bc of the jaw movement, taking a walk around the plane can be v beneficial, or just sleep through the entire flight :) you will be fine, let me know when you get to your destination!
this makes me think about all the things I told myself I would never do because they're scary or hard and how I should consider them again. you don't have to be the person that you have said you are - we are always changing! there is such a beautiful fluidity in being human.
I'm not sure why but when you said "this is what I'm alive for" I burst out into tears. I feel like that perfectly describes how your experiences and feelings should be described as. Maybe your life doesn't have a purpose but maybe your life is the purpose. Idk, thank you for this vid dodie, you help my life make sense xx
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you derealized and jumped out of a plane honestly this is so inspirational ily dodie. i never realized there could be a time that disassociating could actually be useful
+Brianna Rinaldi (adabbadon) RIGHT LOL
OH MY GOD DODIE YOU NOTICED ME
also i burst into tears watching the skydiving video, just so much secondhand emotion. i loved it
Dissociation is supposed to be useful it's pretty much the body's copying mechanism for strsss and anxiety and stuff
yeah but it always comes at the worst times for me. i dissociated while meeting dan and phil and DONT REMEMBER ANY OF IT IM SO MAD
Brianna Rinaldi what's disassociating?
Flight attendant: watch your step.
I FELL OUT OF A PLANE
Pat Buchanan lmao I saw that too
@@davie127 same😂😂
Same seem that
@@davie127 me too!
"1, 2... and we just... fell" i loved that moment. idk why i loved it so much, but i did, and... this video is ao gorgeous and pure and makes me so happy and appreciative.
and proud.
goddamnit, i am so proud of you, Dodie. you've done so much and gotten through so much and these feels like a testament to it. and i love that.
well done Dodie, i love you.
I'm lowkey really into Dodies sick voice
Same omg
It's actually so cute oml
OMS!
sAME
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i watched a lecture on depression the other day, and the man doing the lecture had a really good definition imo : "depression is when you can't appreciate the beauty of a sunset." and so when you talked about crying about the beauty of the world i felt so happy for you and i teared up bc it's so true !! love u lots
Thoughts that went through my head as I fell out of a plane:
"OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OMG I FELL OUT OF A PLANE. OH THANK GOD THE PARACHUTE WORKS"
Twas amazing. Never again
LITERALLY YES HAHAHA
doddlevloggle Dodie why is your music not on iTunes? I want to buy your songs but I can't :)
Lily McCoombes she's coming out with an ep next month, you should be able to get it then!
claire amber great thanks so much for telling me!!! :)
"I just couldn't believe how beautiful the world was and how for the first time in so so long and I could really..truly appreicate that..I could've died then and it would have been worth it."
mY HEART
Well that's added to my bucket list.
Beebø same lol
Same
Agreed! I've always been on the fence but the way Dodie talked about it I have to do it now!
same
Beebø no no no no no no!! Just thinking about jumping out of a plane is making my knees shake!! Oh my goodness... The only thing I fear more than heights are spiders... Lol..
oh no dodie now i gotta go skydiving
ThatLaurenThing SAME.
an update: IM ABOUT TO BOOK A SKYDIVING TRIP FOR THIS SATURDAY MORNING SEND HELP
+ThatLaurenThing YES YES SO EXCITED FOR YOU
AFTER A LOT OF HESITATING I CLICKED THE "BOOK" BUTTON I'M SKYDIVING FIRST THING SATURDAY MORNING UM
How did it go? :o
Dodie this gave me so many feels. I cried when you were so happy and emotional in the CokeTV video and this one almost made me cry again! I'm so happy for you!
"A nice surface coating of happiness" is the most poetic thing I've heard all week. You should definitely write a song about falling out of the sky
Also are you going to be performing in Louisville tomorrow?
Your descriptions were so absolutely adventurous and lovely! It felt like I was there- sky diving is something I constantly reject doing, but this video is definitely making me reconsider. :-)
"Jump and you won't regret it."
SHERLOCK NO.
Aggelina Pahope too soon XD
Jodie Cooper Gurl, it's been 4 years...😂
HELP
my dad tried to go skydiving one time. he did training and everything, but when they got in the plane, they told him it was too windy and they couldnt go. this was a while back and hes still never gone. one day i plan to take him
When did we ask
This was so uneventful...I don’t know how to feel.
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I know everyone else is kind of hating this comment but I genuinly think this is so pure and wholesome omg!
Did he not tell you about the BACK UP parachute he also has? That might have been reassuring haha.
I feel like this might freak someone out more
They’d just have the thought of why do they need a back up if there’s no chance of the first failing
Then they might go into thinking the back up would fail
Dodie is the cutest person in this universe
she's sooo cute and adorable and huggable
very true
So true...
Fred simple solution: don't watch her videos
(Thomas Sanders Too!!❤️❤️❤️)
i'm legitimately so happy to see you so happy
seeing dodie get so passionate and happy about talking about how nothing was there made me so so happy
Is this the start of extreme sports Dodie? But honestly I watched the video today and was so happy for you. I knew how much you weren't going to do it and how you never thought you could! But then you did it and I was so happy for you to overcome that fear. I hope one day I get an opportunity like that and have the courage to say yes
hahA no I don't think so! This is probably my limit! Thank u :) and good luck!
dodie...you did it you said you didn't want to and that was fine but then you thought...not in an anxious way but you didn't have to wait with that anxiety on your back and with that you concurred it and I'm so so proud of you
I DONTBKNOW HOW TO SEE WHO LIKED THIS
there is something about your voice that makes me feel so calm, honestly I think I could hear you speak for hours and hours, it makes me feel same and at peace. I'm so so so so damn happy for you Dodie, I deal with anxiety and also the feeling of "not being there" as if I was just an espectator of my own life and seeing someone being actually content and enjoying their life is sooo nice because I feel like I'll feel that too eventually, thank you for sharing this amazing experince!!!
also im sorry if what I say doesn't make any sense, english is not my 1st language
Hearing you talk about this whole experience and the way you felt just filled me up with so much warmth and I cried a little. This was absolutely wonderful! Videos like this remind me how much I love just simple storytelling videos. There's so much value to just listening to people tell you how they felt in a moment and you don't need fancy effects or a huge budget and it's just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I'm going to save this for a bad day and watch it again to remind myself that the world can be a really great place.
Hey Dodie! I was really sad (and very nauseous) at my 5 to 8:30 band rehearsal and I thought I'd go home and collapse, but then i watched this video and it made me happy. You being happy made me happy and I'm so glad you got to experience skydiving! I used to be terrified of even the idea of skydiving, but now im having second thoughts because of this video. I hope you have a good week! :)
im SOO SO happy for you dodie
especially when you said that you were enjoying the moment without trying to. hope you get to feel that often :)
I'm so proud of you Dodie! Ahh this video makes me so happy, you're such a lovely human being we are blessed by your presence.
Im so proud of you for doing this and I'm so glad that you managed it and appreciated stuff and had good feelings
ill come with you if you do it again lol
I honesty cried when you said you'd been waiting to feel like that your whole life because I understand what you mean so deeply and like sometimes my depression and anxiety si so heavy I don't have any positive emotions for long periods of times and then when they do happen its like the best thing that's ever happen to you, those moments of peace and contentment keep you grounded and remind you why you're alive.
You're adorable, love you Dodieeeeeee!💕💕
vv proud☺️
This is one of the rare things in the past month that has made me feel truly inspired!
Your poetic description of sky diving and the fact I relate so much to your anxiety problems (despite being an adventurous person) is really pushing me to try it too!
Thank you, Dodie
I am an aviation geek. I love planes. I love flying airplanes, taking off, breathe in how wonderful our planet is and land it by myself and get out of the plane with the biggest smile you might have ever seen. I am scared of heights, though (Yes, that is possible)... :D And which is most important: I would never jump out of a plane (since it is abuse of aviators rescue tools or what ever you would call that in English- I translated it word for word from German...) !!!!
You can be proud of yourself and maybe because of you I will try this f***ing misbehaviour in aerospace once in my lifetime... I'm pretty sure I'd love it, if I tried. :D
Sorry for this weird comment... I'm pumped somehow... I want to try it. If you can do it, I can do it as well... don't I? :)
This maybe was my most personal comment ever on RUclips by the way.... lol.
"misbehavior in aerospace" omg i love how you phrased that
Haha yeah my English isn't that great around midnight. :D
Dodie flows above in the wind
Bright parashoot keeping her up as she grins
Lele why did this almost make me cry ??
this strangely made me very anxious?? up until the part you started to describe how you truly felt, then i burst into tears. aaa thank you for sharing this with us, it made my stomach turn a bit but it definitely made my heart dance. :)
When you talked about not having to try to be in the moment, not trying to appreciate and experience it, and you just did, I nearly wept while you were talking about it. I'm still waiting to feel that effortless joy, that moment of what can only be described as perfection. However, it made my entire fricking month hearing that you got to experience it and that you did something so crazy and it was wonderful. So thank you for that
I was just watching her brows the whole time, they look so nice :D
Ikr?! Absolutely gorgeous!
same
I'm honestly so happy for you. You're getting closer to overcoming anxiety and fear of heights. I feel like you deserve these things so much. It always takes me so long to come to realization, and I'm happy some of it has come to you.
So proud of you DODIE!!! I love the way you explained the experience, I could understand how you felt even though I haven't jumped out a plane.... Best bed time story ever :) (it's awesome that you were able to enjoy it :D
i watched this in 2016, now it’s 2023 and i’m skydiving tomorrow. i remembered this video and in my anxiety decided to watch it, crying at “this is what i’m alive for”. I CAN DO THIS!!! i can beat my anxiety. THIS is what I’m alive for
I'm gonna binge watch all of Dodie's videos.
Double Bubble Disco Queen Urie
um is no one talking about this magical username!?
it warms my heart to see how much you enjoyed it and how much you're happy to talk about it. ily so much dodie,,,
ily dodie this is a really good accomplishment I'm v proud of you :')
She's so pure and beautiful and this made me tear up. I'm so proud of you, Dodie.
How are you so adorable. It's actually impossible to watch your videos without ending up grinning and feeling super happy and positive because YOU'RE SO CUTE AHHH! (I probably have a lowkey crush on you but IDC because you're so adorable)
This will always be my favourite Dodie video. The way she talks about falling so freely is perfect.
whenever dods was talking about how she wasn't stressed out bout taking it all and she just did it
why am i crying
i want that feeling so so baddd
I know this video is a little old, but I wanted to thank you for it, Dodie. You make me realize that you can live and be happy, no matter what your mental obstacles may be. That you can have these good memories even though things can seem bad in your head. Thank you for being so strong and so kind. Thank you thank you thank you
"smiling through it, she said she would do it. again."
ahh dodie you talking about the clouds and the field made me cry so much ♡ and what you said about "this wasn't me"- the amazing thing is that it was you, it was all you! ♡
I want to meet you one day. I suffer from pretty bad anxiety too. you are an inspiration.
When I saw you actually jump off the plane (in the other video) I just started crying. Like im watching a movie, just so happy for you. The fact that there was happy epic music while you were falling didnt help with my emotions but yeah... I was just so happy for you and I've been following you for 3 years and that was just an emotional expirence. You dont personaly know me, but I do know you and I just felt overwhelmed and happy and GOSH basically congratulations I am so proud of you
Proud of you dodieee! Also, is that a hickey?
Molly Robyn Hello name buddy 😋
Yeah it does look like a hickey, but occasionally getting really painful hormonal acne like she does, I do get large, inflamed, pink bumps on my neck that look like that, so we can never know for sure. xD She does seem to have another one on the other side during her CokeTV video, so if they're practically symmetrical like that, I just end up assuming from personal experience that it's acne.
I do not think she is in a relatiomship right now
lol your explanation of the sort of process of doing something that terrifies you and getting all the gut-wrenching anxiety but then getting that feeling of like being on top of the world is so accurate, I've never been able to put it into words but you did perfectly
i... want to sky dive now? and i hate heights?? that's so cool that you were able to do it, Dodie!! *high five*
I honestly love listening to you talk about your experience. You just sound so happy, so elated- like you said when you saw the world from the plane, when there are no words. It's beautiful. It makes me happy- and I'm glad you're happy, too!
Oh you little legend, well done! I wouldn't be surprised if the UK skydiving industry (because that must be a thing) gets a spike in interest from the people watching this video. You've tempted me!
Bungee jumping, I think that's my big NEVER WILL I EVER... how do you feel about that idea?
I relate so much to the part about appreciating the moment. I struggle so much with trying to live in the moment and trying so hard to enjoy everything and it always just stresses me out. Hearing you explain how you were able appreciate and just be in the moment is really inspiring to me.
I'm so proud of you Dodie. I also completed a skydive this September! (I managed to raise £400 for charity 😊)
And I'm doing it again in 2018. DUDE, YOU SHOULD COME!
LUCKILY
Thank you Dodie! this made me so happy -- dealing with depression right now, and to see you SOO happy and to hear about Skydiving was just what i needed tonight. I appreciate you -- Cheers!!
THIS MADE ME WANT TO SKYDIVE SO MUCH
literally same
just listening to you talk about it made me happy. it brought back memories of when i last felt that way -- immensely happy and like everything was okay. i was in gibraltar and walked to the very top of the rock and looked all around me. it was so beautiful i started to tear up. thank you for this dodie. for a brief 10 minutes, you helped me bring back that nostalgic feeling i thought i had forgotten.
I did a skydive about two years ago and whilst I was about 300 or so metres from the ground the parachute collapsed- definitely the most terrifying moment of my life. Me and the instructor the I was strapped to fell for about 100 metres before the winds changed and re-inflated the parachute (thank the gods). After an extremely bumpy landing the first thing my instructor shouted was "WE'RE ALIVE!!"... Comforting, right? That being said, I'd definitely do it again- I mean what are the odds of me almost dying twice?? (Famous last words I guess)
the amount of emotion I felt just hearing you talk cannot be described in words. incredible
This shows all the thoughts behind the snaps 💕
You getting excited and describing how amazing it was makes my day:)
So... I guess it DIDN'T hurt when you fell from heaven, huh? haha. love you dodie!
I've just been watching this video and smiling so much every time Dodie talks about the sense of joy she felt. I'm so lucky not to have experienced depression, but watching her videos have taught me not to take my happiness for granted. And. I'm just so happy that she can experience happiness really and truly and probably even more intensely than I have.
"Long live the high tide, long live the low, but most of all, long live the difference."
The Dodie's difference is living. It's living.
Dodie: Why on earth would you jump out of a plane?
Title: I jumped out of a plane
this is so inspirational. my heart beats faster just listening to you talking about you first jumping out haha
lov u
when I read that title of this vid I thought of an episode of spn where a dude gets possessed by a demon and jumps out of the plane while the plane is in the air and they all die
yes i remember that too
Twenty One Phan I REMEMBER THAT EPISODEEE
maybe im supernatural trash but i think that's season 1 episode 4
it is
I was thinking of that too omg
When you said you weren't obsessing over feeling in the moment, over trying to feel happy, I almost started crying, because nobody has ever described that to me before. I knew I wasn't alone in depression, but that specific feeling of trying to be happy, trying to take in what's around you and be present and be happy and appreciate it, is such a big thing to me, and you nailed it right on the head. So thank you for making me feel like I'm not alone.
first of all: WHERE CAN I BUY ONE OF THOSE SHIRTS YOU'RE WEARING?!?!?!!!!
secondly: damn that shirt whatta plug there :D
It has been so long since someone has touched me in a way you have tonight with this video. Just hearing you say words out loud that I say in my head all the time. Obsessing about EVERYTHING and not giving yourself the opportunity to be in the moment is not the way to live and you just reminded me of that. Dodie thank you so much for sharing this! And way to be a badass!!!
last time I was this early, this joke was still funny
This may be one of my favorite of your vlogs. Love the advice about getting yourself to say yes and jump even when it makes no sense and how those are the moments that make life amazing.
MOM FINALLY I WAS LITERALLY RELOADING YOUR CHANNEL FOR 20 MINUTES. BUT LOVE YOU DODIE 😂❤
Congratulations Dodie, I'm so proud of your achievement, watching the Coke TV video made me cry knowing that you were going to do it, even when you were so adamant that wouldn't. It showed me that anything is possible :) love you Dodie xxx
Did anyone else yawn when she talked about yawning? I did lol
dodie I cannot express how proud I am for you. I can't believe you did that and you didn't have to be forced. I'm glad you loved it hopefully this can lead to more amazing things for you to do 💕😙 much love
I was on the verge of quitting my musical theatre program
Thank you
For giving me the courage to not give up in this crazy claustrophobic situation
That i cannot back out of cuz it was so much money
Thank you
seeing you smile is literally one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen. It's like you are a second little sun shining just as bright as the other one. thank you for brightening my day Dodie. you have no idea how much you are helping me with vids like this.
before watching this, i thought i would never once go skydiving because i'm terrified of anything going wrong. i throw away lots of opportunities because i think that the one time i go and do something, it'll go bad and something won't work. however, after seeing this and hearing your experience, it makes want to go and do it. (i mean, i can't go skydiving yet, because i'm not old enough, but once i am old enough, i think i will)
This honestly inspired me so much. I'm only 15 but i've lived my life to the safest, not even liking roller coasters. Recently, I've grown so tired and so dreary of that. I was like you where it was absolute no go skydiving but seeing this and hearing about it, it's what i need. just watching this has inspired me to say yes to things and take risks even if my body and my anxiety is saying no no no. so thank you, so much, Dodie.
Flight Attendant: we are going through a bit of turbulence, so it may be a bit of a bumpy ride
RUclipsr: I jumped out of a plane
honestly when you started talking about the happiness you felt up there and how beautiful the world was i started crying :0 i'm so proud of you
Flight attendant: be careful stepping out of the plane, there is a slight drop.
RUclipsrs: *_this video_*
yes I know I got that from Snapchat before you tell me.
snapchat lmao it made it to snapchat
I'm so proud of you Dodie! I've been watching you for years and I'm so happy that you were able to skydive and could appreciate the world like that! I hope you're able to do more stuff like this and be so happy!
I also love the nail polish and glasses, you look gorgeous as always!
I've wanted to go skydiving for years and years and have dreamt about the day I'm finally 18 and I'll be allowed to do it without my parents permission (same with tattoos) but it's just crazy because I'm almost 18. I'm nearly there. I've been dreaming about turning 18 since I was 11 and now I almost am holy shit where has the time gone.
this video makes me so happy
the way you talk about this, the way you're so amazed, you're so happy, and it makes me happy too
you're my huge inspiration
thank you so much
As a person who is severely afraid of heights, I never thought I would ever want to skydive, but this video made me want to. AHH how strange
This made me so happy to watch, well done!! I related so much to this, we went on a trip with school to Cape Town when I was 15 and it had been mentioned from the start that we could abseil down Table mountain if we wanted, I have a massive fear of heights so I had said 100% no way from the beginning. I told everyone every time we talked about it I couldn't. But then then closer and closer the time got to doing it and people were getting more excited I started saying "I wish I could but I know I just can't". On the day I ended up going up the mountain on the cable car for moral support and when I got to the top it was the most beautiful day and I'd never seen a view like it but also knew unless I came back somehow one day I would never see again - and i said yes. I've never panicked so much, let's be honest when you've chickened out of abseiling down something which is half the size of a house, its a bit of a step to do the highest natural abseil in the world! I felt a bit numb the whole way and don't remember a huge amount but the feeling at the bottom was one of the best I've ever felt, so so happy! I don't think I've ever felt so proud, fair to say I had my parents sobbing because they never thought I could do it. Well done Dodie, you should be so proud!
Skydiving is something I said I'd never do but you're seriously making me reconsider 😂
Great to hear you had such an awesome experience! I did my first skydive myself a few years ago now, and it was one of the coolest experiences possible. I struggle with mental illness a bit myself and I loved freefall more than anything in the world because for that moment that's all you can think about, for that moment you are entirely living, and it doesn't matter about all the other shit that's going on in your head, or the problems you left on the ground. At that specific moment in time all you're doing is flying. It was that which lead me to leave university and become a skydiver. I'm now close to 500 jumps, and still love it to this day. So happy to hear that you loved your first one, definitely come back for more!
this vid is so white
your skin
your shirt
your room
whoa
This was the most sincere and descriptive depiction of joy ive ever heard.
❤❤❤❤
shoot someone already did that....um...🎅🎅🎅🎅
Dodie, you are SO brave! Not just for the physical act of jumping out of that plane, but for the mental barriers you smashed! I've just watched the CokeTV video and I couldn't stop smiling 😃. Xx
You're an excellent storyteller
Your description of falling sounds so beautiful, I teared up a bit. Although it was probably more like "OH GOD I FELL OUT OF A PLANE AHHH" I've craved that feeling for so long. I'm truly so proud of you.
Hi friendly people in the comment section. I'm getting ready for a 5-hour flight, and I have a massive amount of anxiety building up inside of me. I’ve never been on a plane before, and I’m terrified. If anyone has ANY advice for planes, please respond. Anything will be useful at this point.
If you have a laptop, I suggest you bring headphones or something and you can watch a movie. If you feel claustrophobic, look outside and down to the ground (it actually looks really cool from above and probably shouldn't rattle you too much.) Also, the bag they give you is your friend. Even if you don't throw up, you can use it to steady your breathing. Planes are generally very safe.
TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT:
1)drink a LOT of water- planes are very dehydrating
2)a plane is just a plane. Millions of people go on planes and they are FINE. I promise you, nothing bad will happen, and anyway, everything is planned for for you.
3) try to go to the bathroom in the middle of the flight- there is usually turbulence in the takeoff and landing of the flight
Good luck with the flight:)
Just remember that at any point there is near a million people in the air, flying and the chance of anything wrong happening is so incredibly small that you will be fine. Also concentrate on the bits you might enjoy like the food or reading or watching a movie because then you can basically forget that you are flying. :-) hope it goes well.
hi! I'm not sure what exactly you're anxious about, but I'll try to help anyways. (: I actually went on my first flight back in July (and then did five more in the span of three weeks--traveling whoop) and I remember being really nervous about the whole thing. What I found was to keep my mind off of the fact that we were high up in the air, was to think about how the plane was moving. Example, "Oh, look how the nose is starting to point up." "It's not pointing upwards anymore," etc. I also brought a book and my iPod with me to keep me distracted. This is kind of weird, but I also imagined it as if I were just on a big bus and any turbulence we experienced was simply us going on a bumpy road. I've used this next "trick" when I was feeling very overwhelmed a couple weeks ago (not on a plane though, but I think it should work on planes too). I simply looked around me, found different objects, and named what color they were. You could probably name stuff about it other than the color though--like how many you can see in the plane, something it reminds you of, etc. It made me feel more control in the situation and took my mind off my problems in the moment at least. Anyhoo, I hope I was at least a little bit of help to you. :) Have a nice flight!
my relatives live on the complete opposite side of the world to me, so all my life i've been taking 14 hour flights maybe once per year or two years, and never have i had a problem. the only reason you hear bad thing about planes is that people tend to focus on the rarities and circumstances that differ from the rest. planes are actually quite safe :) but I have a friend who's massively terrified of like planes and roller coasters inside, and what she does during takeoff and landing is basically grab onto my arm/someone she trusts and grounds herself in that person. if you're just looking for general advice: gum is generally very helpful for popping your ears bc of the jaw movement, taking a walk around the plane can be v beneficial, or just sleep through the entire flight :) you will be fine, let me know when you get to your destination!
this makes me think about all the things I told myself I would never do because they're scary or hard and how I should consider them again. you don't have to be the person that you have said you are - we are always changing! there is such a beautiful fluidity in being human.