I am very sensitive to (lack of) fresh air. It’s as if my IQ drops with the levels of oxygen, for example when I am giving a lecture, I suddenly can’t find the right words… then I notice the closed windows and open them… and after a while I can continue talking as usual.
Worse, at company meetings, where the windows often cannot be open (or sometimes the room has no windows at all), I lose the ability to follow the argument, and if it goes on for too long, I become sleepy. I repeatedly got into a trouble because of this. People tell me that from outside it looks as if I am high or drunk. If I say it is my reaction to lack of oxygen (perhaps it would be more precise to say too much CO2), it seems like I am making up stuff, because people agree that the air was “bad, but not that bad”, and of course I have no official diagnosis for this.
At home, except for winter, my windows are always half-open. When I give a lecture somewhere, I learned to always check the windows first. At work, this was mostly out of my control (because open offices and air conditioning—oh, how much I hate them), but work from home saved me.
explore which skills do or don’t suffer under carbon dioxide poisoning
I didn’t do any experiments with this, but given that the last step is “I become sleepy”, I would expect that ultimately all skills will suffer, except maybe for repetitive mechanical activities (such as coding, LOL).
I am very sensitive to (lack of) fresh air. It’s as if my IQ drops with the levels of oxygen, for example when I am giving a lecture, I suddenly can’t find the right words… then I notice the closed windows and open them… and after a while I can continue talking as usual.
Worse, at company meetings, where the windows often cannot be open (or sometimes the room has no windows at all), I lose the ability to follow the argument, and if it goes on for too long, I become sleepy. I repeatedly got into a trouble because of this. People tell me that from outside it looks as if I am high or drunk. If I say it is my reaction to lack of oxygen (perhaps it would be more precise to say too much CO2), it seems like I am making up stuff, because people agree that the air was “bad, but not that bad”, and of course I have no official diagnosis for this.
At home, except for winter, my windows are always half-open. When I give a lecture somewhere, I learned to always check the windows first. At work, this was mostly out of my control (because open offices and air conditioning—oh, how much I hate them), but work from home saved me.
I didn’t do any experiments with this, but given that the last step is “I become sleepy”, I would expect that ultimately all skills will suffer, except maybe for repetitive mechanical activities (such as coding, LOL).
I have something similar. Have you worked outside?
No, I haven’t. At work this was not an option. At home, I use a desktop computer, not a notebook.