The Body's Sense of Time

 This evening, I came home and felt an unusual headache as well as a general sense of exhaustion. I say 'unusual' because I don't often have the sharp migraine that I had tonight. I did get through this headache okay (and am still recovering) but I felt as though the time had slowed down tremendously when it was hitting me strongly. Luckily, I feel that it has subsided since then, and I am thus allowed to be a bit more productive in the last hour of the night.
   It's interesting for me to observe the effect that a body ailment or sickness can have on the sense of time. Professor Mary Hess was mentioning today that we often aren't aware of rules until they are violated and broken, and I suppose the same principle applies to the body. When I am feeling well, there is not much in the way of a bodily obstacle that prevents me from more or less achieving a certain modicum of productivity. But when something feels tight or painful, I often carry that sensation into everything I do--and time eerily starts to slow down tremendously! It makes me realize that the sense of time is a deeply embodied event. When my steps are cumbersome or leaden due to a pain in the body or a sickness, time slows down because the succession of movements is a lot harder to create, much less sustain. Not only this, but at times, every moment feels like something which depends completely on my own physical exertion. I can imagine that living on a dense planet with a heavier gravitational pull that Earth's would also slow down the sense of time.
  I think the point of this discussion is to perhaps suggest that the body is quite miraculous--and it's good never to take the body for granted in its present state of health, because it is already doing amazing things.