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Yes? I have an unfortunate, strange, condition where I can get extremely warm/hot just by thinking about something exciting or novel. This isn't "turning red",
by dudeinhawaii 5y ago
Yes? I have an unfortunate, strange, condition where I can get extremely warm/hot just by thinking about something exciting or novel. This isn't "turning red", as there are no external changes. I can sit down to listen to music, close my eyes, and think up some tolkien-esque battle to go with the music and instantly jump a perceived 20+ degrees and yet register no change on a thermometer. I'm guessing it's my brain triggering some kind of adrenal reaction.
In this state (which lasts 5-15 minutes), I can go outside shirtless in 23F weather (sub-freezing) and it feels like a balmy 70F. My outer senses don't go numb, but I have the odd experience of not experiencing cold. It's almost as if my sense of touch is overloaded in these moments. I don't feel any numbness, but I don't really feel anything at all. It's like my brain stops caring about the sense of touch or temperature and I feel everything in a very dull, flat way -- the dial turned to 1. Incredibly cold things like touching and handling a block of ice feel like room temperature. I also don't get red or have any symptoms you'd associate with the exposure to the cold.
I'm probably dying of something rare and don't know it as it comes on with any overly stressful or exciting experience. It makes intimacy interesting -- "baby I'm on fire".