Sometimes you wake up, and you drop everything. You spill your morning drink of choice on your lap. You break something. You stub your toe. It’s like there are mornings where you’re significantly more clumsy than usual.
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At least two explanations at play. One is pretty uninspiring, the other at least feels like a “real answer.”
Let’s go with the “real answer” first. You have cycles. Your body doesn’t just have a sleep-wake cycle. It also has a digestive cycle, a cycle for cortisol release in your body, for lots and lots of stuff. Normally all these cycles operate in harmony. Your cortisol cycle increases when your wake cycle starts. That makes sense (cortisol is a stress hormone, but it also does basic stuff like allow your body to use energy).
Sometimes these cycles can get thrown out of harmony. Did you sleep weird the previous night? Have too much caffeine? Leave bright lights on that trick your body into thinking it’s day when it’s actually night? Eat a lot when your body wasn’t expecting it (based on the cycles)? So yeah. Sometimes we just mess up our physiological cycles and that means we aren’t as physically coordinated or prepared.
The less satisfying answer: there is a fair degree of stochastic process to the human body. Stochastic is a fancy word for “random” and random refers specifically to the “picking a number from a hat” kind of random. Your body mostly stacks the hat with great numbers (if bigger is better, say 100 twenties, 5 nineteens, and 1 one). But eventually you draw a one. There’s no reason for it.
So why did your body get all clumsy? Maybe you did something different that caused it. Maybe it’s just natural variation around your average coordination, and the reason we vary is bc of randomness. And your far more likely to remember being extra clumsy than to remember that morning you brushed your teeth with unusual precision.
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