Tired.

[valis2]

Husband and I went shopping, and I bought lots of things for my crafty experiment. We also bought new planters for the veggies we want to plant, and we bought water filters and soil and stuff like that.

And, as usual, I am absolutely wiped out. What the hell is it about shopping that completely exhausts me? I have no problem walking places, and doing things, and hauling heavy stuff around, and even going up a flight of stairs, but shopping kills me ded.

I think it's the mental focus required. I scan all of the products in each aisle, looking not only for things on my list, but for things not on the list that I might need. And by the end, I'm so tired I could crawl in the cart and fall asleep. I yawned eleventy billion times on the way home. My brain gets completely absorbed in the looking and scanning--both the primary brain and the secondary--and I think it takes more energy.

I know, I know, first world problem. Still, it's weird. If I lie down at this moment I'll fall asleep.

Comments

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

I just learned about how our brains work during shopping so let me share my knowledge!

Our minds can really only keep 7(ish) variables in memory and shops offer us many, many more choices than that. We tend to get overwhelmed while shopping if we don't discount some of the possibilities. If you try to think of them all it leads to indecisiveness. Especially if you're naturally indecisive.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am tremendously indecisive. Sometimes I spend so much time completely frozen in one spot trying to decide. And I do feel overwhelmed; I end up trying to focus on what I'm looking at, but there are just so many things.

Thank you for sharing!!

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Some guy wrote a book about how our we make decisions and yapped about it on NPR. It was really interesting. Decisive people can discard choices more easily, but indecisive people try to consider everything and that's what trips them up.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

This makes so much sense. For me, it's hard to figure stuff out that seems evenly stacked--if there are two choices, A and B, and they both each have a pro and con, I will literally tear my brain to shreds trying to decide. It's awful. I torture my whole family and all of my friends with making the decision. lol.