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Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
The worst part of going numb was that it took away everything but this, the smothering need to hurt, to break, to kill, pouring over him like a thick blanket of syrup until he panicked and brought the physical sensations back.
Experience is a form of paralysis.
Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up
Thick pulse and dizziness make his head light and stomach turn. He really can't feel his fingers, or knees for that matter. But everything settles down again - almost as if it were always meant to - when his eyes graze a dumb grin and a pair of glittering eyes.
My dear Hiram," cried Mrs. Otis, "what can we do with a woman who faints?" "Charge it to her like breakages," answered the Minister; "she won't faint after that;
In her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field
As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.
If I'm writing, at least I don't feel as paralyzed.
She was unconscious in a comma."
"You mean a coma."
"Do I?
war between paralyzed telepaths.
His idiot face gets redder and his eyes bulge and his ears block. I'd say his mind stops functioning, but I lack the proof of any other state from which it might stop." Bronowski
I die a little more, still in silence, paralysed by you, in fear, in pain.
Civilization is paralysis.
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
... my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.
She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.
Alex fainted-"
"I didn't faint," I grumbled, feeling my cheeks flush.
Aiden's lip curved up on one side. "Okay. She was suddenly not walking or talking anymore ...
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.
discombobulated around
Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.
My legs are falling asleep," I blurted. It wasn't a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included.
"I could solve that." Patch's hands closed on my
hips.
Something in her chest came to life where her heart should have been; something made of living metal and current. Voltage coursed through her body. Frantic branches of lightning jumped out of her, scorching the walls. Tabitha was paralysed;
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
Hypnotized
I am hypnotized
Sleepwalking to the rhythm of your words,
Never wishing to wake-
Negative stimulus may paralyze positive life.
It is difficult to walk, talk, eat, exercise, make love, or drive an automobile while reading.
Everything ok?" Charlie's voice came from behind me.
"I already said it was."
"I know, but you're standing there holding onto that barre for dear life. I know I'm good, but I don't think I've ever paralyzed a woman before.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.
Every nerve in her body shrieked, then died. She was numb.
When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window."
"You what?"
"Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.
The medical term for that is dead. Gee, Magnus, what did it feel like? It hurt. A lot. Thanks for asking.
There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.
He is shivering, probably going into deep shock.
You fainted,' Tom said.
Reg coughed.
No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.
Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.
Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.
What do you mean fainted?
Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.
In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
He was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him. Just being in the presence of that face made him pause, his tongue tied with self-consciousness. But she made it easy for him
Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
When I kissed Brooks, it was like I'd been stun-gunned. But I was still conscious."
Debbie Mae's eyebrows had gone way up. "Awake but nobody home?"
"Well, maybe awake but somebody home with really, really bad judgment.
Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.
He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.
Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head.
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
Goes black. Agony. I breathe in and out, waiting for the white-hot agony to pass. Dear God, please. It is all I can do not to scream,
I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
Being unconscious is like hearing without listening and seeing without a vision
Hunched forward, feeling his ears burning, his hands shaking. Tried to concentrate. Found his eyes flickering over sentences and phrases, retaining nothing. [Charles Meredith]
When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
Stupors, however, do not last forever
There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.
He was numb from aching. And from fear.
Some patients will report that they have sleep paralysis. If we see sleep paralysis alone and nothing else, we don't really think all that much of it, but if we see other symptoms, then it might be a red flag for something else that's going on.
We were using ether and oxygen as anaesthetic and she was particularly adept at holding her breath while the mask was on her face then returning suddenly to violent life when we thought she was asleep. We were both sweating when she finally went under.
ambushed by sleep.
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.
So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick)
No, but if you don't lay off me, I'm going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)
Wouldn't you like to slip into something more comfortable though? Perhaps a coma?
Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.
With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes
wide.
Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling ...
Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.
In REM sleep the body is paralyzed, except for shallow breathing and eye movements.
All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a kind of vertigo
she had felt this sensation before, though she could not remember when. It was a feeling of being not herself, of being trapped in the wrong body, as if she had recently been miscast in a play that was her own life.
Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth
But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.
She is in full delirium. But delirium is the antithesis of death; it is the body's
struggle to survive. ("Jane Brown's Body")
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
He had nerve damage: input could not penetrate. The world stalled out at his edges. Sometimes he had trouble speaking to other people, rummaging for language, and it seemed to him that an invisible layer divided him from the rest of the world, a membrane of emotional surface tension.
The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?
Fear is quite the anaesthetic
He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
His fatigued brain slid out from under him.
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.
He lay still and quiet. He absorbed the enveloping darkness, slowly relaxed his limbs from end to end, eased and regulated his breathing, gradually cleared his mind of all thought, closed his eyes, and was completely incapable of getting to sleep.
Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his senses to slow down.