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Has anyone attempted a modification (electronic or pneumatic) that lets you hear your own heartbeat 24/7? That might be useful for monitoring and controlling y
by p1mrx 9y ago
Has anyone attempted a modification (electronic or pneumatic) that lets you hear your own heartbeat 24/7? That might be useful for monitoring and controlling your health and emotional state.
- Overtonwindow 9y agoThat sounds like a modern, self-inflicted version of the tell tale heart.
- p1mrx 9y agoYet another reason to abstain from murder.
- dennyabraham 9y agoIf you're interested in doing this, with a little mindfulness training you can learn to passively notice the pace of your own heartbeat all the time, without modification.
- jrowley 9y agoYeah, all I need to do is concentrate and I generally can feel it. Helps to be somewhere quiet for me.
- curun1r 9y agoHow about a spiritual modification? During periods of prolonged meditation, I've been able to pay attention to my heartbeat. It wouldn't surprise me if more skilled meditators were in tune enough with their bodies to be able to monitor it during other times as well. Just because we've learned to tune out signals from the body like heartbeat doesn't mean that, with practice, we can't tune back into them.
- rcarmo 9y agoBelieve me, you don't want to do that. One of the side effects of my sinus trouble is that I "hear" my heartbeat (not just throbbing), and it took me years to learn how to tune it out and not have it feed a feedback loop that led to some very stressful moments (140bpm resting).
- StavrosK 9y agoI second this. I don't know why, but I can feel my heart beat at all times. After strenuous exercise, it throbs very forcibly, but it's also very noticeable when lying in bed (I sleep in a prone position). It's not a great feeling, because, for one, it reminds you that you have a thing that's beating all the time and would kill you if it stopped, and also because it's just annoying to be feeling your heart pulsing inside you every moment of the day.
- dennyabraham 9y agoFor me it's a lovely piece of mechanical sympathy I can have with my own body: it lets me tell if I'm agitated or soothed in ways I'm not immediately aware of.
- Sleeep 9y agoIn what way would that be useful?
- p1mrx 9y agoThe heart literally defines the rate at which oxygen and other molecules are distributed through your brain and muscles. If you're using those molecules to think or move, wouldn't it be nice to have a sort of tachometer?
- jschwartzi 9y agoThe tachometer is your urge to breathe. The harder you're breathing, the more oxygen and food energy you're consuming, and the more Carbon Dioxide(CO2) is building up in your blood. That CO2 then has to be exhaled and Oxygen has to be inhaled. This is a continuous cycle and your heart rate is only a proxy for it.
- Sleeep 9y agoNo? What use would that have? Even if it were useful, you can already feel your heart beat if you are concentrating on it. Even if you lacked this ability you can feel, at least, changes in your heart rate. Even if you couldn't do either of those things you could just wear a heart rate monitor, they are cheap and readily available and have no side effects.
- blhack 9y agoWhat you're describing is an anxiety disorder.