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A Dorky Revelation
For about as long as I can remember, I have occasionally found myself in a very odd state. It only comes around after extended periods of meditative behavior. It is a disassociation from my limbs, which feel as if they have grown several hundred percent. The first time I remember describing the feeling was in 7th grade when I first toyed with meditation. (The description was something like 'I feel like I'm a giant stone statue floating in space.)
On the drive home from Portland, about as I hit Tukwilla, I started to feel it in my arms. It was dark at the point and I had been driving for about 6 hours total at that point. I don't like it happening when I'm driving because it is an unproductive distraction, so I forced myself to look at my arms and move them around. It was then that I realized what it is.
It's a failure in proprioception. There was a lack of sensory feedback because I was hardly moving them, and I wasn't even verifying their position visually because it was dark and I was concentrating on traffic.
This makes me very happy. Weird mysterious things are much more enjoyable with an explanation (it makes the weirdness all the more acute). More importantly, I now have an honest excuse to use the term 'proprioception'!
On the drive home from Portland, about as I hit Tukwilla, I started to feel it in my arms. It was dark at the point and I had been driving for about 6 hours total at that point. I don't like it happening when I'm driving because it is an unproductive distraction, so I forced myself to look at my arms and move them around. It was then that I realized what it is.
It's a failure in proprioception. There was a lack of sensory feedback because I was hardly moving them, and I wasn't even verifying their position visually because it was dark and I was concentrating on traffic.
This makes me very happy. Weird mysterious things are much more enjoyable with an explanation (it makes the weirdness all the more acute). More importantly, I now have an honest excuse to use the term 'proprioception'!
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