I'm hungry but don't feel like eating. Or perhaps I want to eat but I'm not hungry. Either way, I'm feeling ambivalent about dinner. I guess this is what happens when I'm not picking something up on the way to game night.
I get that feeling occasionally. It's very weird. My theory is that it has to do with the difference between recognition of physiological states and actual attraction/aversion instincts. Like when you're in a lot of pain and you take opiates to cope--in that situation, I can feel and recognize the pain, but I don't feel the aversion reaction that makes it into a bad experience. From what I've seen of the literature, I'm guessing it probably has something to do with signal integration in the prefrontal cortex. (I'm kind of in the middle of writing an essay about RPS fanfic that draws on some of the same concepts in the context of guilty pleasure.)
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(Anonymous) 2010-10-21 07:39 am (UTC)(link)~Hooligan