Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Have you ever experienced caffeine-induced hypersensitivity?
It's marvellously unsettling. You start off by trying to bully some brain cells into solving some exasperating Math problem during a perfectly boring lecture, then all of a sudden - sensory overload. The customary quiet sounds of the LT take on an unusual intensity. It's not that they become
louder, just that the brain sits up and pays a lot more attention while the normal mental barriers screening out unwanted background information collapse. Your level of awareness gets keyed up to its painful limits, and yet your surroundings feel curiously unreal. No-holds-barred hyper-intensity. You feel extraordinarily exposed, a strange sense of dread, a dizzying sensation of balancing precariously on the edge of some terrifying chasm - about to fall or float, you don't really know.
Thanks to all of that, I couldn't concentrate on math, so I slipped off to the toilet to regain some composure.
Just thought I should share the experience.
words were spilled on Wednesday, August 11, 2004