What ultimate comfy looks like for me
For me to be comfortable, the following conditions must be met:
I have to be in a strange position, feeling my body straining and experiencing the rush of being on edge if some way. Nirmal sitting is never simulating enough. If I´m at a computer, I need to have my feet resting on something unusual or I have to be swinging my chair, eternally trying to balance me in a perfectly still position in the air, never succeding. If I travel in the bus, I have to have one of my knees raised and pressing against the chair in front of mem or have my leg under me. On the floor, I usually feebly try various positions, until I always finally settle in lying down.
At the same time, I need to be eating something. If it is food, I need to be switching between sweet and savory. Or just eat something sweet and sour, like sugar and vinegar. If there is no food available, I will eat my nails or the inside of my mouth. It´s a habit and I have no idea how I´d ever go about stopping.
At the same time, I need to be listening to something. If its music, I will also dance in some way, be it tapping my feet, fidgeting with my fingers or just going at it with every part of my being. If its a podcast, audiobook or a YouTube vid, I will also need to be doing something else at the same time.
Usually, playing a game. I usually play HearthStone on my phone with a YouTube vid playing in the upper left corner, but I give chances to all kinds of different mobile games. Usually, those chances are short lived. Either, because the game is crap, not the game that was actually advertised in the ad, too heavily monetized or it is so good, that I need sound and concentration to really get into it, which means I can´t listen to something else at the same time.
Lets take the writing of this blog post as a case study. I am sitting at my desk at home on my Microlab speaker, because I was too lazy to grab my chair and move it 2 metres to the right. This makes me sit lower then normal and in a somewhat hunched over position. Uncomfortable, yet stimulating.
I am eating Skittles, savoring them 1 at a time.
I am not listening to anything except the drone of my turned on projector that I was watching the latest Game Grumps episode on before I finally started writing todays thing. I forgot to put on music. If I want to keep focused, I usually can´t listen to music with lyrics that I can start thinking about, and usually I play me some electro swing.
I am not playing a game, but I am being creative, and that engages me in a similar state of flow (if I don´t get hung up on something, like research) as a game usually would.
Do any of you also have to go to crazy lenghts to finally get to you comfy zone? Let me know!
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