Friday, November 21 1 HR 8:00PM 77 Swallows 2 HR 9:00PM 72 Swallows 3 HR 10:00PM 36 Swallows 4 HR 11:00PM 18 Swallows TOTAL 203 Saturday, November 22 12 HR 7:00AM 12 Swallows 13 HR 8:00AM 15 Swallows 14 HR 9:00AM 53 Swallows 15 HR 10:00AM 34 Swallows 16 HR 11:00AM 63 Swallows 17 HR 12:00PM 45 Swallows 18 HR 1:00PM 87 Swallows 19 HR 2:00PM 61 Swallows 20 HR 3:00PM 58 Swallows 21 HR 4:00PM 40 Swallows 22 HR 5:00PM 44 Swallows 23 HR 6:00PM 78 Swallows 24 HR 7:00PM 93 Swallows 25 HR 8:00PM 87 Swallows 26 HR 9:00PM 42 Swallows 27 HR 10:00PM 33 Swallows 28 HR 11:00PM 28 Swallows TOTAL 873 Sunday, November 23 40 HR 11:00AM 20 Swallows 41 HR 12:00PM 87 Swallows 42 HR 1:00PM 93 Swallows 43 HR 2:00PM 96 Swallows 44 HR 3:00PM 80 Swallows 45 HR 4:00PM 48 Swallows 46 HR 5:00PM 77 Swallows 47 HR 6:00PM 89 Swallows 48 HR 7:00PM 32 Swallows 49 HR 8:00PM 5 Swallows 50 HR 9:00PM 96 Swallows 51 HR 10:00PM 49 Swallows 52 HR 11:00PM 63 Swallows 53 HR 12:00AM 12 Swallows TOTAL 847 Monday, November 24 63 HR 10:00AM 25 Swallows 64 HR 11:00AM 97 Swallows 65 HR 12:00PM 67 Swallows 66 HR 1:00PM 63 Swallows 67 HR 2:00PM 87 Swallows 68 HR 3:00PM 46 Swallows 69 HR 4:00PM 60 Swallows 70 HR 5:00PM 55 Swallows 71 HR 6:00PM 67 Swallows 72 HR 7:00PM 98 Swallows TOTAL 665 8:00PM, Friday Coffee. 9:00PM, Friday Counterstrike. Orange Soda. 10:30PM, Friday Telephone. 10:40PM, Friday I find that I relish a good swallow. 10:41PM, Friday I can't seem to swallow to satisfy the need to clear my throat. 11:00PM, Friday I was using a public restroom and there was a poster hung on the wall that had strange facts that you could read while going pee. One fact was that 2500 Left-Handed people die a year using tools designed for Right-Handed people. The other fact was that you use 50 different muscles everytime you swallow. 7:00AM, Saturday Get up for work, helping my Dad out today. No time for breakfast, just enough to tie my shoes and crawl out to the truck. 9:00AM, Saturday Coffee. 11:00AM, Saturday Coffee. 1:00PM, Saturday Chubby's Cheesesteaks, 3 types of hot peppers, tomato sauce. 6:00PM, Saturday Pork Roast, Baked Potatoes, Spinach. Cut into large pieces. 7:00PM, Saturday Never has my mouth produced so much saliva. I feel as though I've become so entirely hyper-aware of my swallowing that I cannot do anything else. I have shifted from physically writing down my data to remembering it on the hour. 8:00PM, Saturday Coffee. When I eat there is a period during which before I eat, I salivate anticipating the meal. After eating, there is a period of time where my mouth continues to taste the remnants of the meal and produces saliva. I'm spitting out my saliva alot more because I don't like to swallow. 11:00AM, Sunday When I wake up, It's hard to be conscious of whether or not I had swallowed recently. I expect that there is a distortion in my data collecting just before sleep and just after I wake up. This is because I can't be aware of the swallowing reflex. I also expect that I'll swallow less simply because my body is relaxing and relaxed 12:00PM, Sunday Coffee. 1:00PM, Sunday Tomatoe Soup, Tuna Fish Sandwich; toasted. 4:00PM, Sunday Ice Cream. No matter how hard I swallow, There is always mucous. 5:00PM, Sunday Train Ride. 8:00PM, Sunday In retrospect, I can't figure out how I only recorded 5 swallows for the last hour. I was in conversation for a good part of the hour. On the telephone and in person. I decided to search for some qualitative proof to support my record. A Univ of Illinois physics student wrote on good singing versus bad singingand dealt with the throat. She affirms the difficulty of singing and swallowing simultaneously. (I tried it and I found it impossible). I assume that singing and speaking hold a few similarities. I found a journal about alpacas and in it, it states that an adult alpaca cannot breath and swallow at the same time. It stands to reason that a human cannot either. If a human were to breath and swallow simultaneously, then there is a risk of the swallowed object entering the resipitory system. 9:00PM, Sunday Nantucket Lemonade, Wawa Coffee. 11:00PM, Sunday Denali Concert. Everytime I swallow my mucous is regurgitated against my will because of the bass frequencies of the performance. I find my saliva resting in the back of my throat despite my efforts. 12:00AM, Sunday Sleep. 10:00AM, Monday Good morning. Swallowing Disorders. 11:00AM, Monday Cream of Wheat, Bagel, Tea Swallow or Choke. 12:00PM, Monday There are three types of swallowing that occur. The Normative experience is merely a heightened awareness of the reflexive swallowing. The kind that occurs when one clears their throat and are aware that that has occured Hyper-conscious swallowing is when you're aware to the extent that you continue to swallow after the material has been swallowed, induced swallowing. Sub-conscious swallowing is only noticed when having exited from the state. It is usually followed by dialogue "Oh shit, I am supposed to be counting that." 1:00PM, Monday My accuracy is compromised. I realized that over the last day I cannot be completely conscious of my swallowing. Too many times have I had to either cease what I was doing to note that I swallowed or did I simply overlook that I had just consumed another cup of coffee. After some time, I have become able to feel the 'footprints' of a swallow, and I could almost recall the number of times I swallowed to eat a bagel. I could exercise a memory of how it felt going down my throat, and count the muscles. Hyper-conscious in the hindsight of the subconscious. Choke versus Choking 2:00PM, Monday Curry, Rice, Yogurt. 4:00PM, Monday Water. Hard to Swallow 5:00PM, Monday Sometimes it is a snowball effect, and I can't stop it. West Bank settlements swallow all before them 7:00PM, Monday I would fantasize about how maybe I would lose my voice by the time 72 hours ended. Somehow that would make it impossible to hold me accountable for my time spent swallowing. Or maybe my dongle in the back of my throat would fall out onto the table. All that really happened was that I was slightly inconvenienced and my heightened state of awareness has contributed to my neurosis. My throat hurts. Swallowing Strength Test 10:00AM, Tuesday I can't stop counting. xxx