Do You Ever 'Forget' How To Walk Down Stairs?

[Donger]

I'm trying to ascertain whether or not something's wrong with me. At least a couple of times a week, I have to physically stop when I'm going down stairs and think about what my next step should be. I asked my wife if she did this as well, and she just called me an idiot and laughed, but I'm willing to bet that others do this as well (the forgetting how to walk down stairs bit).

So?

[JimNasium]

You know your and idiot when Mr. Fax (perhaps the most civil of Chiefsplanet posters) talks smack to you.

[JBucc]

I'd tell you to see a doctor, but I don't think stupid is fixable

[jidar]

Once when I was very tired I was dropping the kids off at school in the morning and I couldn't operate the automatic door lock. I was pushing down to unlock when I needed to push up. What's worse is I knew I was doing it wrong but I couldn't focus on what I should do to operate it correctly and I kept pushing down several times. It only lasted for a brief moment before I pushed up and unlocked it, but it really sucked.
Ever since then I've occasionally wondered if I had some kind of encroaching dementia coming on, but it was probably just how tired I was.. I think.

[Demonpenz]

Could be having a stroke or a mild siezure

[JimNasium]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Could be having a stroke or a mild siezure

Perhaps a brain tumor?

[58-4ever]

I always walk into the kitchen and forget why I came in there.

[58-4ever]

Originally Posted by JimNasium

Perhaps a brain tumor?

Or Lupus.

[JimNasium]

Originally Posted by 58-4ever

Or Lupus.

Yep, or late-latent syphillis.

[FAX]

I wasn't giving Mr. Donger a hard time, Mr. JimNasium. I would never consider such behavior. I was merely trying to narrow down a diagnosis and determine if there was a possibility that Mr. Donger might starve to death prior to falling down a flight of stairs.

Have you ever been afraid of or nervous about heights, Mr. Donger?

FAX

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by luv

If it's dark, I usually think I'm at the bottom when I'm not. It's a weird feeling to take a step forward and your foot goes lower than you think it should. It has almost tripped me up a few times.

And that, luv, is one of the reasons that I obsessively count stairs. Not only so that I know how many there are, but so that I never have to worry about having one left. I haven't lived in my parents home in almost 10 years, but I can tell you the stairs to the second floor have 14 steps, while the stairs to the basement have 15. And all the floors in my former dorm room had 8 stairs at every level, except the top one, that had 9.

[morphius]

Originally Posted by jidar

Once when I was very tired I was dropping the kids off at school in the morning and I couldn't operate the automatic door lock. I was pushing down to unlock when I needed to push up. What's worse is I knew I was doing it wrong but I couldn't focus on what I should do to operate it correctly and I kept pushing down several times. It only lasted for a brief moment before I pushed up and unlocked it, but it really sucked.
Ever since then I've occasionally wondered if I had some kind of encroaching dementia coming on, but it was probably just how tired I was.. I think.

Tired can really **** you up. I remember being up almsot 40 hours once working on a crashed server and finally had to pass it off to someone as I could no longer focus, everything was foggy and I was starting to see floating shapes and colors that were obviously not there.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by JimNasium

Perhaps a brain tumor?

It's not a tumah.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by morphius

Tired can really **** you up. I remember being up almsot 40 hours once working on a crashed server and finally had to pass it off to someone as I could no longer focus, everything was foggy and I was starting to see floating shapes and colors that were obviously not there.

And entire bottle of Robutussin does the exact same thing!

[morphius]

Originally Posted by Roof Pig!

And entire bottle of Robutussin does the exact same thing!

Of course maybe he could just be afraid that Roof Pig is hiding on the stairs waiting for him to trip over him...

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by Roof Pig!

And that, luv, is one of the reasons that I obsessively count stairs. Not only so that I know how many there are, but so that I never have to worry about having one left. I haven't lived in my parents home in almost 10 years, but I can tell you the stairs to the second floor have 14 steps, while the stairs to the basement have 15. And all the floors in my former dorm room had 8 stairs at every level, except the top one, that had 9.

Interesting, I count stairs as well. I am surprised by how many places have 13 steps between floors.

Do you do any other "mental math" things in your normal life? I used to walk a lot to get places. I would take addresses and add the digits together to see if the original number is divisible by 3.