#body data

sleep: 1am-5am asleep // awake 5am-8am (but stayed in bed) // 8am-10:35 am asleep 

food intake: 2 16 oz iced coffees // a tomato sandwich on peasant bread with veganaise // two chocolate baked donuts // a half cup of chia pudding with mango // half an order of tofu bi bim bap // water

medication taken: zyrtec // lexapro // klonopin // vitamin b complex // iron

activity: sitting at library researching // reading books and computer screen

location of pain: sides and back of head (most concentrated in occipital area)

unrelated pain: anxiety attack caused chest pains and pain in hands/wrists, along with skin abrasions from scratching open hives

pain sensation: numbness in hands and arms, neck // constant pain in back of head and neck (difficulty moving neck) like being squeezed in a vice // frontal/temporal pain extends to inside of ears, feels very disorienting // very stiff spine // hard to concentrate // difficulty swallowing // pressure feels off in ears // light sensitivity and halo aura, as well as seeing fine light beams (diffraction)

“Part of my feeling about Voyager, part of what I was feeling in the recording of my brainwaves, my heart, my eyes, everything in that meditation on the record. I had asked Carl whether or not it would be possible to compress the impulses in one’s brain and nervous system into sound and then put that sound on the record and think whether the extraterrestrials of the future would be able to reconstitute that data into thought...And so my brain waves, my REM, every little sound that my body was making was recorded...This was two days after Carl and I declared our love for each other.” 

-from Radiolab’s “Space”