I was in redwood sauna for 20 min, the got in a warm shower. I got very dizzy , started seeing stars & nearly?
Kota Kinabalu Started seeing stars & nearly passed out. My knees were weak and I had to sit down in the shower.
What would cause this?
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2 Responses
Roger K
30 Aug 2011
Mariana
10 Oct 2015
Not necessarily. One of the more intinesterg phenomena of sustained attention on the right object is that it tends to cause the intensity of awareness to decrease. Certain rhythmic or diffuse objects (like gazing at a fire for a long period of time) naturally cause us to go away. Then we snap back and wonder where we were. Many, if not most, people who do not know meditation think that this is the goal of meditation to zone out. We meditators make it worse by talking about the mind stopping without explaining, or even understanding ourselves, that the task is to maintain or heighten the intensity of awareness as the mind slowly grinds to a halt. Going away, if we suffer from a mind that keeps us in misery all of the time, seems like a fine goal but it is not the traditional goal of the meditative practices.VN:F [1.9.10_1130]please wait…
Low blood pressure.
All that heat dilated the blood vessels in your skin so a larger amount of blood than usual is being pumped through those capillaries in an effort to keep you cool. When you stand up, there is the added problem of the blood pooling in your legs, which removes even more blood from immediate availability for circulation (look up "orthostatic hypotension for more on that particular, very common issue. Also referred to as a "head rush."). As a consequence, not enough blood was available to pump to your brain – lightheaded feeling, visual disturbances, fainting – all very ordinary in those circumstances.
As soon as your body detects that problem, you heart rate will increase, and the heart’s stroke volume (the amount of blood pumped with each beat) will go up. It does take a short, but noticeable amount of time to correct.
Sitting down was a good choice – better than actually fainting and falling.
Next time, get up very slowly, staying bent at the waist and raise you torso slowly to an upright position. Give your body a chance to respond.