A different sensory overload
Here’s an interesting one.
One day last week, I wrote a couple of articles for this blog. They were quite long and intense, and I ended up with nearly 2000 words bashed out in a little over an hour. I felt great. I usually do after writing a blog post. The physical act of typing words out de-clutters my brain and forms logical sentences of the thought fragments that swirl around in my head.
My euphoria didn’t last long though. By the time I got home from work I felt very overloaded, and the evening passed in something of a haze. The next morning, I felt hungover.
I’ve talked about each of these states recently, and have put the cause down to sensory overload – specifically too muich sensory input. But that day, I didn’t have too much sensory input.
Now, it’s probably wise to remember that I ‘see’ much of what I write. Both my long-term and working memories are very visual. So, in writing about how I feel about the diagnosis of Asperger’s, and how I frequently say one thing to people, and then don’t follow through with the actions, I spent a good deal of time playing and replaying scenarios in my head. Visually. I can kind of ‘hear’ the other people talking in these scenarios too.
Could it be that the intensity of generating and seeing all this information in my head and the act of getting it all down in writing caused much the same effect as too much visual, auditory or tactile input does? I can’t be sure, of course, but that is the best conclusion that I can reach. It’s not too much sensory output, as such, yet it is about experiencing a lot of sensory information, albeit internally generated.
A different form of sensory overload.
What do you think?
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