Or is it just the Drugs?

[swestrup]

I just noticed I'm feeling very good right now. I'm still kinda bumbed about missing the RPG session tonight (the shopping can be done tomorrow, but I hate letting friends down), but otherwise feeling really good. Partly thats because I'm very well rested right now, which helps a lot. Partly its because the Migraine is gone. I don't know if it will be back or not, or if the lingering feelings of goodness are due to the AC&C I took to combat the migraine.

In the NaNo novel that I'm not writing right now (haven't written a word in 2 weeks, due to having other demands on my time) I have an alien 'drug' that grants perfect health to whoever takes it. I've been describing the effects of no longer having any minor aches, pains or whatnot as being mildly euphoric. The assumption is that everyone has minor health problems that they've long since learned to filter out of their perceptions, and its not until they're all cured at once that they realize just how much of a burden its been.

Of course, I have no proof that this is the case, but I strongly suspect that most folks have a small litany of bodily complaints they've learned to ignore, on top of the larger ones that they're actually aware of on a daily basis. What say you? Does this make sense or is it hokey?

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I think you're onto something. When I had a cortisone shot for my eczema, I felt a kind of pervasive general sense of well-being. I assume it was affecting other bits of inflammation and such that I don't consciously notice most of the time.

[baronscartop.livejournal.com]

I lived with a sore tooth for two years.

The day it got fixed, I suddenly learned what it was like to be able to chew on both sides without thinking about it.

Pain is like all those sounds we only notice when the power goes out.

t!

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Actually, this was a pretty good week to miss Warhammer, because we ended last week with everyone split up so I was able to finish off Jeff and Sara's plot without worrying about jumping back and forth.

[swestrup]

Oh good. I really hate it when my absence interferes with the game. I had forgotten we were separated. I had just been thinking about massive tunnel battles coming up...

[sps.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

That drug would be heavenly.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Provided it had no horrible side-effects, of course.

[swestrup]

Well, of course it does, but they're subtle and insidious and no one is going to figure it out until its far, far too late.