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the beating heart
Jan. 8th, 2012 08:19 pmI wonder if other people's experiences are similar to mine, so I thought I'd write about this and ask if anyone has any comments on how this works for them.
Lying in bed at night, settled and still, the most prominent sensation (given that there aren't many) is the beating of my heart, and the sensation of my pulse around my body. I always find the sensation of the pulse interesting. It's not simultaneous throughout the body and when you start pondering the actual hydraulic delay from heart to feet and then the nerve delay from feet to brain and then contemplate how the brain heavily processes our perceptions of time and simultaneity I can lie there thinking about it for a long time. These are the things on my mind in the evening.
After a day in which I've done some hard exercise, especially exercise late in the day, my resting heart rate will be elevated, as expected. Sometimes elevated quite a bit, and that becomes an obvious sensation. I tend to feel restless even though tired after a hard day, and I always wonder how much of that is the obvious racing heart sensation and how much is from other aspects of post-exercise physiology. I suspect the brain itself is still a bit revved up, and the muscles even if not really achy still feel used.
My morning lying-down heart rate is typically around 50 or low 50s, the evening lying-down rate if I haven't done much that day maybe mid-50s. After a fun hard day it can be up in the low 70s. Last Monday after a long session at the oval it was up to 80 for a while. It's not surprising, it's obviously not uncomfortable in any way, but it certainly is noticeable while lying in bed. All revved up with no place to go. How much do you notice your post-exercise heart rate?
Lying in bed at night, settled and still, the most prominent sensation (given that there aren't many) is the beating of my heart, and the sensation of my pulse around my body. I always find the sensation of the pulse interesting. It's not simultaneous throughout the body and when you start pondering the actual hydraulic delay from heart to feet and then the nerve delay from feet to brain and then contemplate how the brain heavily processes our perceptions of time and simultaneity I can lie there thinking about it for a long time. These are the things on my mind in the evening.
After a day in which I've done some hard exercise, especially exercise late in the day, my resting heart rate will be elevated, as expected. Sometimes elevated quite a bit, and that becomes an obvious sensation. I tend to feel restless even though tired after a hard day, and I always wonder how much of that is the obvious racing heart sensation and how much is from other aspects of post-exercise physiology. I suspect the brain itself is still a bit revved up, and the muscles even if not really achy still feel used.
My morning lying-down heart rate is typically around 50 or low 50s, the evening lying-down rate if I haven't done much that day maybe mid-50s. After a fun hard day it can be up in the low 70s. Last Monday after a long session at the oval it was up to 80 for a while. It's not surprising, it's obviously not uncomfortable in any way, but it certainly is noticeable while lying in bed. All revved up with no place to go. How much do you notice your post-exercise heart rate?
