co-regulation
i’m reading a bit about it. i don’t understand the science nitty gritty bits of it yet.
- when a mom talks to their child in the womb and the baby kicks
- when you’re lying next to (or on) someone and you feel your breathing sync up
- gf and i have our periods sync for a few months before the cycles overlap and un-sync for some months
- apparently couples’ can emit very similar brain waves when tasked with something
- when i lie one of our cats on my stomach and i match their breathing, it helps them get to sleep
i like the idea of syncing by proximity.
i’ve had phones with infrared sensors that you line up with someone else’s phone’s infrared sensor so they can send you a mp3 file of a song that is popular at the time
in middle school i watched in envy as my classmates played on their nintendo ds with some other kid in the class next door and the groan that comes when someone goes too far away
i like living in our little rented house that feels too small and too un-maintained sometimes and syncing with my girlfriend in ways we don’t realize or understand, and somehow fitting five cats into the equation
and i know i’m sending mixed signals, but i like living. and i don’t know how to co-regulate that with the other stuff