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The other day I had a weird experience with pores and sweating.
I was given a family-sized bag of chips that were "too spicy" for my parents. They were spicy, sure, but not painfully spicy.
However, my body's reaction was not the usual sweating... It was to excessively sweat from a square inch spot just above my temple.
I could literally FEEL the sweat coming out of the pores. I went to the mirror and watched it pour out like a damn faucet. It was fascinating but very uncomfortable, both physically and psychologically
Super weird.
Jokes aside, it was nearly a steady stream off my head. I had to make a bath towel turban
Maybe you are leaking brain fluid. Do you hear the ocean?
Wow, that is super weird actually.
Reminds me of an incident I had a few months ago. I arrived at work, by bike. I hadn't taken the bike for a good while, and I biked harder than I should have. Anyway, I sat down by my desk, and I started salivating.
It wasn't too much at first, I could keep up by swallowing. I immediately attributed it to the biking and wrote it off, and thought it would pass soon.
But it didn't. It kept getting worse. More saliva, and faster. I was swallowing mouthfuls at this point, and it was uncomfortable. Like I was being forced to drink lots of water, or being waterboarded.
At last I reached my breaking point and I swiftly walked to the bathroom, locked the door, and just stood with my mouth open and tongue hanging, over the sink, and it was just running, like a faucet opened just enough to be running yet not dripping. This is the part that was similar to your experience—I could feel my saliva... glands? excreting the saliva.
Anyway, this went on for about a minute or two, then it stopped, and I went on with my day.
Have never had something like that happen before, and not since.
That's even more bizarre than my story lol
Usually excessive salivation is a sign that I'm about to vomit so I think I would have wound up in the stall as a precaution
Yeah, exactly. That's why I thought it was due to the exertion from biking, and that I would soon vomit. I guess I was like on the very brink of vomiting, but never did? And my mouth was just like, "RED ALERT, FLOOD THE CAVITY, ANY MINUTE NOW. ... AAAANY MINUTE!!!"
When your mouth salivates uncontrollably, that's usually a sign you're about to throw up.
Sounds like a strange dream I would have then wake up drooling on my pillow like a great dane.
Kinda sounds like the beginning signs of nausea. Were you overheated? Hung over? Did you skip breakfast and only have coffee?
Definitely was some sort of variation of (exertion?) nausea; but no, not hung over (I don't drink), I never skip breakfast, and I don't drink coffee.
I have something similar happen to me when I eat kiwis. The top of my head just starts sweating.
I know a lot of people are mildly allergic to kiwis so I looked up the symptoms and stumbled on something unexpected... Frey's Syndrome:
Sweating (face, neck, temples) triggered by food. Usually a result of gland surgery, it can also be caused by ingrown hairs near the auricotemporal nerve.
I've suffered from ingrown hairs my whole life (yes I bathe regularly) and definitely have had some near my ears. It's almost too coincidental...
Well, I have alopecia so no ingrown hairs for me
Philosophy aside, do you get the impression that kiwi tastes different to you than it does to others?
I have no idea, why?
I had that reaction but all over my whole torso the last time I was in a sauna. I've been in saunas many times but never experienced anything like that before, it was so weird to literally feel the sweat come out of you.
I can only imagine it must have been even weirder for you since it was just because of some hot snacks and from such a localised area.