Click on a link to view the article in a new browser window. K.H. BC, Canada As a child growing up in British Columbia I didn't hear about this until I was about 12 Years old. At the time, the Wrestling phenomenon was just coming into vogue on television and there was a wrestler who had a move called The Sleeper... J. Florida, USA I'm 15 and I read an article about the pass out game on msn and just wanted to write about my story. Well I was once at my friends house and her boyfriend attempted to play the pass out game with her ... M. Canada I'm 18 and 7 short years ago I was in grade 5. I remember when the blackout game came into my elementary school. I never tried it, I was too afraid. I remember walking home with two of my friends... Michelle I saw this pass-out game being played a lot in highschool, around grades 10-11. It seemed to me like it was definitely a game that people would play based on peer pressure, not from the high it gave them... Violet I learned how to play the game at a slumber party in the 4th grade. I was about 9 so that would have been 1980? My point was this has been going on for a long time... Gloria Manitoba,Canada I recall a warm spring day in grade 7. A group of us girls were sitting around on the grass out in the schoolyard. One of the girls mentioned that she wanted to try blacking out... H.R. I am 28 yrs old now, but when I was 19 I saw friends playing a version of a choking game. I would not take part in it, but watched, as friends would play. They were calling it the pass out game... B. Arizona, USA We were about 10 years old at the time. I'm now 20. So this was about 10 years ago. Strangely enough, I picked up the Arizona Republic the following morning when the papers first came out... D. Massachusetts, USA When I was about 13 or 14 my sister and her friend came up to my room and was like Desiree you have to try this game it's so fun. So obviously I wasn't going to let my big sister down so I tried it... C. Alberta, Canada I just want to advise all those that are concerned.I have my own serious addictions in life... R. Maine, USA I was physically addicted to this 'GAME' for several years. I started playing 'space monkeys' as we called it in the eighth grade after a friend showed me how... V.H. New Hampshire, USA The reason I am writing is because of something my 7-year-old son said yesterday... T.D. Ontario, Canada My first experience with the pass out game was when I was 10. I remember a friend telling me about it, so that evening she slept over and showed me how to do it... C.J. Ontario, Canada The memories triggered by this story are kind of disturbing now. For a few weeks when I was maybe 10-12 years old, my brother and I used to choke each other. I couldn't tell you why now, except to say that we weren't mad at each other when we did it... K.M.D. Nova Scotia, Canada I'm turning 50 years old soon and remember as a teenager, friends playing this game although not with a belt or ropes...It was very scary during one incident when the person almost did not regain consciousness... J.P. Ontario, Canada When I was about twelve growing up in Scarborough, my best friend started going out with this really 'street wise' guy....He did it by both squeezing our necks on either side or by squeezing our chest. He told us that it was perfectly safe... K.M. Ontario, Canada My son was in grade 6 at the time and the other boy was in grade 8. This happened last summer before school end. My son was in the washroom when a boy came in and asked him if he can show him some move... .... Anonymous I'm going to change any names in my story because I don't think that’s right to use the real ones, but I do want to tell the story because it needs to be heard and understood... .... Anonymous When I was a lid I grew up in a small town with nothing to do...Our parents never knew what we were doing... J.H. Kansas City, USA When I was like 13 or 14 years old (maybe even 12) I was staying at a cousin’s house and one of her crazy friends that I’m not too fond of now wanted to show my something she thought was CRAZY!! D.H. Texas, USA The email below is an email we received from a mother that approached her son about the choking game when she heard about it. Her reply from her son was not what she expected… R.D.S I had forgotten about the choking game until I watched the show by The 5th Estate, and the memories of that childhood game came rushing back. When I was 10 we used to play a variation of the game that we called the Fainting Game. L.L. Ontario, Canada This is just a short story of one of my many memories of growing up...