I CAN walk and chew gum at the same time, but my chewing must be in sync with my steps. I’m not sure if that’s a neurological thing about attention, or a personality quirk, or something that falls in a grey area between those two.
That reminds me of a point in my life when I decided to never step on cracks (to counter the effects of people who were not aware), it got to the point where I would not take a downstroke on a bike pedal over a crack, and ended up synching with the sidewalk tiles. Disclaimer: I was at the time, and for most of my thinking life really, caught in a struggle between atheism and extreme magical thinking.
Oddly enough, I still semi-consciously adjust my gait on tiled floors with any pattern to them. That’s nothing to do with being unable to multitask, though. I wonder if there are any interesting correlations with walking tics...
I CAN walk and chew gum at the same time, but my chewing must be in sync with my steps. I’m not sure if that’s a neurological thing about attention, or a personality quirk, or something that falls in a grey area between those two.
That reminds me of a point in my life when I decided to never step on cracks (to counter the effects of people who were not aware), it got to the point where I would not take a downstroke on a bike pedal over a crack, and ended up synching with the sidewalk tiles. Disclaimer: I was at the time, and for most of my thinking life really, caught in a struggle between atheism and extreme magical thinking.
Oddly enough, I still semi-consciously adjust my gait on tiled floors with any pattern to them. That’s nothing to do with being unable to multitask, though. I wonder if there are any interesting correlations with walking tics...