Electrocution

Now this funny.

Within 24 hours, after having twice having unrelated and random discussions about the two times in my life that I have been electrocuted, tonight I go and electrocute myself again.

This time it was just 100% pure stupidity – just like the last two times. I have been fixing this old lamp and was playing around with it after the job was done just to see why the thing seems to flicker from time to time. Then ZAP when I put my finger across the electrodes for the bulb.

I have an RCD  (residual current device) in the electricity box which was sold as a nanosecond cut-off device that will save one’s kids from electrocution. It didn’t seem to do much. Maybe it determined I was only copping a small current instead of a life-threatening current. Just like an ABS that doesn’t go off at low speeds.

In any case 50 Hz is now indelibly etched in my brain. And my fingers. I can still feel it as I am typing.

Now this is a segue; one of the conversations I was having about electrocution was related to body energy. What is it and where does it come from?

I made the point that we evolved without electricity and our body’s reaction to electrocution couldn’t be pre-recorded as, for example, it is postulated that our reactions to snakes and spiders are.

Supposedly we carry in our DNA a memory of spiders and snakes so that, even if we have never seen one of these, we know to hate them.

But then I thought, maybe we have such a genetic memory for lightening strikes. And that is the one that is used to create a microsecond response to electrocution.

What seems to happens is that every muscle, bone and tendon in the body immediately works in concert, and on a microsecond timescale, to remove you from the source of the current.

The first two times this happened to me I was thrown through the air – a feat that I could never conjure up with my conscious brain.

The question is whether this is a release of stored energy or a mobilization of an actuating engine that converts inputs to energy. Given the speed of response I think there is a form of stored energy on our bodies at all times, to be used in an emergency.

Now segueing again; it occurs to me that an orgasm is an electrocution in reverse. My thinking?

Well, first, why do we even have orgasms?

My suspicion that at one level we are being rewarded with something we like, so we do it again. The process also switches off the brain which prevents us doing unwanted things, like stopping; this switching off the brain is also a reward for most people. And then there is the releasing or controlling of energy in the body.

Therefore an orgasm is like an electric shock in reverse, compelling us to the source of the future shock.

One more of these bloody shocks and this blog will be officially nuts.

Actually this had led to more thoughts on sex. To have sex most people have to tune out all conscious thoughts, especially men. Erections are hard to maintain when external thoughts are going on.

Maybe this is why women have harder time having orgasms on average – they don’t have quite the physical feedback loop.

In any case my guess is that there are two types of tuning out of conscious thoughts during sex. The first is self centered subconscious, also known as ‘porn’. The second is a descent into the collective subconscious, known as love.

Deep, man.