Whether you're attempting to cure hiccups or simply bringing your heart rate up to trick people into thinking you're capable of love, there are many methods to giving yourself a good scare:

• Stare into the cold, black, unfeeling eyes of a dolphin.
  
• Blindfold yourself while someone plays an MP3 that sounds like fireworks going off dangerously close to you.
  
• Look at some pictures of air pollution from a 1970s textbook (air pollution is still around, but it was scarier back then).
  
• Try to maintain eye contact while shaking the hand of your more successful father.
  
• The next time you travel by air, imagine the worst—the airplane could be full of Chuckies.