So the other night I congratulated myself on finally choosing a nice relaxing evening activity suitable to promote calm and rest, which would also keep muscle use to a minimum. I thought I was so clever having already beaten the unpredictable beast and being proactive to boot!

Well, less than 1 hour of being a passive observer at a pleasant 3 hour performance at a theater I started to wonder, how, from just sitting still for a long time and keeping muscle use to an absolute minimum do you suddenly get weakness transferred to different parts of the body? Double vision, restrictive breathing, choking on spit, and finally ptosis. And during the performance I suddenly remembered Annie´s thread about some see-saw effects that I haven´t read properly yet but nevertheless could not resist but try poking and pulling on my other eye whilst hopefully no one else was looking...

What surprised me most was that an evening sitting still at a theater elicited so many more symptoms than another evening sitting relatively still and talking to friends at a café.

Just when you think you have it all figured out.....

So perhaps next time during a social evening, I would instead think about using more muscles instead of less – I might just try something like dancing on a table instead! which would at least help take attention away from the effects of Mary Walker and her phenomenon for just a couple of minutes!

Seriously though, its a BIG deal. I know what it´s like to not be able to socialize at all or go out in the evenings for at least a year or so. And Celeste - you have a good point. This may be your only socializing opportunity but this is such a good place with such a colorful variety of great people with great social skills. My cup of coffee tastes just a good here as it does at my cafe