Not quite what I had in mind.
blogWhen your temperature approaches 41 degrees centigrade, it is not surprising that your perceptions change. You are chemically very different, the hypothalamus is off, all those cells are denatured. For me, being ill has been quite interesting in this respect. I feel like I am on drugs half the time. The doors of perception have opened wide and I thought it appropriate to note down my findings.
- Serenity
When my temperature was at its highest, everything seem unnaturally quiet. There was a serenity in Glasgow that is rarely if ever seen. THe sky was filled with thick clouds, which made the early evening dusk all the more quiet. I wonder if the body does the same thing when you die, to relax you into the next life.
- Weird shapes
All the familiar objects in my flat became unfamiliar. That which had gone unnoticed suddenly appeared strange.
- Saltiness
For some reason I became preternaturally sensitive to salt. This may be due to the fact that I attempted to eat a pizza which contained almost my entire day’s RDA.
- Tentativeness
When you’re ill, it is difficult to trust yourself. You wonder whether you might become dizzy and fall, or be sick. Steps are taken lightly. Food is eaten slowly. You suspect everything.
- Inertia
The gap between the urge to drink a glass of water and the actual drinking of the water sometimes reached the quarter hour mark. I am quite a lazy man, but that was shocking.
Thing is, I had been talking to my girlfriend about how I wanted to break out of my routines and look at the world afresh. This was not quite what I had in mind.