{"id":20048,"date":"2019-03-30T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20048"},"modified":"2019-03-30T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:10:17","slug":"when-the-thing-youre-experiencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20048","title":{"rendered":"When the thing you’re experiencing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… stops you from diagnosing the thing you’re experiencing :). My last morning in Marfa, I woke up dizzy. Tent spinning, can’t hold your eyes on a reference point, afraid to sit up dizzy. I forced myself to calm down and relax and the feeling passed. It recurred while I was showering a while later and, folks, I was concerned. Was I having some kind of mini-stroke? Had my inner ears decided to betray me? I have a friend who deals with vertigo – not fun.<\/p>\n

I’ll bet you’ve already figured out what was going on, but it wasn’t until later in the morning after I’d moved around a bit that the light bulb went on for me. Marfa is at 4830′ above sea level and dizziness is a symptom of mild altitude sickness. Marfa is not high altitude by any means, but getting there by bike, thus high exertion levels, doesn’t help. It’s happened a couple times since; I pay attention to breathing deeply and regularly and >poof< all gone. Moral of the story – mildest possible oxygen deprivation does not make you smarter.<\/p>\n

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