Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Threshold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwAYIxUso
(Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House)



There is a threshold. An ultimate deviation from your physical body. Depending on how it comes and how fast it attacks, it can be swift or it can be slow. First your compensation mechanisms start, beginning like cogs on clockwork. As pain increases you will increase your body's metabolic demands. Between blood acidity, fluid overload, glucose - amongst a variety of other related features - one thing works with or against another. Your body temperature heats up, yet your core drops. You sweat, profusely. You begin to get cold, and the shivering might be from the drastic shift in temperature, but it can be your body's reaction to stress with large doses of adrenalin. Endorphines are set off like a battery of fireworks to counteract the rise in the threshold, yet you are defeated as your blood pressure drops. Your heart is pounding in your chest and you begin to hear only this beating in your ears. In your body's fight your skin becomes withered as your capillaries shutdown, additionally setting in dehydration. Thus the process of moving your precious blood flow to the most desired organs - to survive. Your glands step into the battle as the amines trigger your adrenal. Soon you feel faint and dizzy as your stomach suggests it will empty. As you fail to stand or stay awake consciously, you have reached that limit, that threshold. From here you can not tell your body apart from your being as you have reached flight instead of fight. From here you feel no more pain.

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