Yes, that is much like what I experience when tending toward "off". Listening to someone else is almost impossible while walking. Even a cluttered room is a terror at times, almost as though each item in the room was shouting "Look out!" and the combo was cacophany.
Some interesting parallels-
If a rat is exposed to those bacterial toxins I keep mentioning while he is in utero, then if you take him as an adult and suddenly put him down in an open space, he tends to freeze. The assumption of fear is first to mind, but I see no reason to rule out sensory overload.
Schizophrenics and autistics both have a form of sensitivity that makes it extremely difficult to separate important date from auditory "noise". Both also seem to arise from the fetal environment. I believe the term related to this is "sensorimotor gating"
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Originally Posted by ZucchiniFlower
Rick, I tend to lose focus when I'm stressed or exhausted. And when I lose focus, I lose my internal metronome ( the rhythm that I provide because my automatic rhythm is defective). When that happens, my movement suffers and I can shut down.
Distractions do the same thing. I can be walking okay, and if someone crossed in front of me, I freeze and have to get myself going again with great effort. The guy who passed me broke my rhythm. With focus and effort, I have to get the rhythm back.
When I'm anxious or upset, I feel discombobulated....like a doddering 100 year old.
When I move, I have to pay close attention when I step backwards or sideways (in the kitchen or lab, usually). If I don't do it slowly with great attention, I lose my balance. If I'm distressed, I may not focus like I should, and that could make me fall.
As for feedback loops, I think we need to provide our own feedback, to supply old loops, or to create new ones.
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