When I was 4, a bull charged at me but I got picked up from over the fence and it slammed into the fence instead. I remember the guy falling us back into cow poo and I got upset by this. I did not know a bull got out and was charging me.

I went off a cliff on a motorcycle. I was in a mountainous area and low-sided on a turn, going under the barrier and off the mountainside. I got caught in a tree 12m down and the bike was located 70m down. I only broke a few bones but one was the femur.

I had my board leash snap surfing a cyclonic swell (about 12–14ft day). As we used a riptide to get out faster, it was hard to swim in and the waves were so big I couldn't swim out. I was being sucked out and dragged in, stuck in the breakzone for about 20 mins until I was so exhausted, I had to choose to swim north and hit a rock shelf. Surprisingly, I didn't get cut up and eventually the rocks protected me from swell. I could dive down and hold onto them as sets would roll over. I collapsed by the time I got out and took about 30 mins to recover. I threw up a lot and almost blacked out a few times.

Recently I was almost t-boned by someone running a red. They were doing about 90kph and did not slow down at all. I thought they were driving suspiciously fast for a red so braked enough to miss them ahead of time.

I can't think of a fifth, but I do a lot of extreme sports and outdoor adventuring. There has been a lot of high-risk situations but have always been in control, putting safety first and being well prepared.

1. Fell asleep while driving on a snowy mountain pass on my way from TX to WA (I was trying to get home by Christmas to surprise my dad) because I couldn't find a safe spot to pull over). I gasped awake, gripped the steering wheel, saw the speedo at 65PMH, then I saw treetops with no guard-rail between me and them; I was close to the edge of the road and approaching it at a right angle, so I had to turn my wheel left or right —with the wrong choice sending me off the mountain side— and all the information I had to work with was the momentary glint of my headlights off of a curvy road sign. I forget which way I cut my wheel but I know I laughed hysterically when the road came back into view. I found a rest stop like 2 miles later; fell asleep in my seat and woke up twice, each time after 10 minutes, because I thought I was back in the moment.

I dunno what 2-5 are; I've got a lot of other stories like putting out a vehicle fire with anti-freeze, dodging a rattlesnake that was aiming for my face, my dad contemplating killing me because I told him I was trans at like 5 years old, a heavy equipment tip over, something about being at the top of a small rockslide, any of the dozens of times I've almost drowned at a public pool as a kid, and a handful of driving stories, but that was definitely my #1.