Saturday me and bunch of friends went hiking and tackled almost the whole of Table Mountain (about 8 hours of hiking at a strong steady pace). Yesterday (which was Sunday), me and another friend went mountain biking. The trails are in terrible shape, at the one steep drop I lost control (or the bike slid sideways due to the trail forming a riff) and sling me into the air. I fell, my left eye socket hitting the ground first, followed by a hard knock against the left side of my head (luckily the helmet covered that part of my head, otherwise it would’ve split right open from the impact). Using my hands (thank goodness for mountain biking gloves), I broke the rest of my fall and ended up with black, blue and purple wrists and stiff fingers. (the bull bar on right side of the bike bent all the way around the handle bar from the impact)
When I stood up, everything was blurry and I was hearing voices speaking all at once, as soon as I try focusing on the voices, they disappear and then come back again. Eventually I got back on the bike and cycled back to the wait point where my buddy was waiting.
My focus kept on drifting away while everything in sight went blurry, as soon as things got blurry, the voices would come back saying things that I didn’t understand, trying to focus on them again and trying to figure out what the voices were saying, they would disappear again, this happened all the way to the bottom of the trail. During the single track part, I could hear somebody cycling behind me and saying random words in a language that I didn’t understand, the moment the single track got wider, I pulled over so the person behind me could pass, there was nobody, the voices shifted to some place inside the thick bushes. This was extremely confusing.
I’m assuming that was a concussion? My head is still thumping. My brother noted last night that all the arteries in my face are pumping blood at full steam (they stood out like never before) and that my pupils were extremely large.
I hope this accident doesn’t interfere with the experiment, I must add, the brain synchronization track does alleviate the pain or at least soothes the thumping sensation and helps me stay focused.
I’m still alive, whoohoo!
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