“imagine what it would feel like to be a sperm”

Consider it your morning meditation. Or an opportunity to learn something about cell motility.

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Soooo ... the experience of a sperm during an ejaculation must be like accelerating to 'warp speed' up the urethra and, conditions being right, accelerating as you jet off through space. Followed by a sudden stop.

There is a PhD in figuring out how to fit tiny microphones to individual sperm so you can catch them go 'Wooow, what a ride'.