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I know this might sound bonkers but hear me out.
Most of my clothing is cotton. Except for my riding gear. Every now and then I wear a t shirt which is 50% polyester if the washing hasn’t been done lol. I noticed today that I was in a mega bad mood for no reason. My head felt heavy and I was generally grumpy and glum. At the end of today I got changed into cotton head to toe and my mind and head within minutes felt light and the “black dog” had gone away. I then realised that the last time I had worn that shirt I experienced the same. Looking and thinking back my mood seems to be heavily attached to my clothing material.
I just wondered if anyone else had experienced similar?
Can't say I hold much truck with that idea, but it could be psychological if you believe it.
OTOH, putting on a shirt and tie to go to my old job put me in a bad mood. I don't think it was the material though!
You don't live in Huddersfield do you? 😛
I can't say I've ever noticed it. I do generally prefer natural fibres though.
I decided to do a web search, I found this gem informative website
Dr. Z's own story with polyester
A few years ago my wife Victoria and I came home for a two day Health Fair we had participated in.
It was a cold and wet evening. Our house was cold because we had not been there all weekend.
I put on a "fleece" jacket made of 100% polyester. Polyester fleece is very popular, inexpensive and readily available in most clothing stores.
Within 10 or 15 minutes I had turned into raving maniac. I started yelling at my wife and finding fault with her for no reason.
I was just about the post that link. That website looks like the quackiest thing I've ever seen.
Or is it the other way around? T-shirt is symptom not cause.
I'm in a black mood so I can't be bothered to wash clothes, so all I've got left is this crappy T-shirt which I hate wearing but I have to wear it and now I'm in a worse mood.
Man made faabers messin with yuh mo=freakin mind man. Go neckid
David Icke used to wear polyester shell suits but also drank a lot of real ale. Which one caused him to fall over in a local pub? And which one fuelled his conspiracy theories?
FFS. Do some reading will you. Start with B.F. Skinner and his wee pigeons.
The "last time" you wore that shirt?
My uncle Charlie has a pair of shoes just like your shirt. He's a right miserable sod. Every time he wears those ****in shoes he's always in a grump.
He wore them at his wifes funeral..... GRUMP.
He wore them at his daughters funeral.... GRUMP.
Silly bugger even wore then when his dog was put down...... GRUMP.
I told him he needs to buy new shoes. Will he ****in listen. I think not!
Anyway.... Its his second wifes funeral tomorrow..... Bet he wears those blooody shoes again. He's gonna be a delight to be around.... I just know it.
Possibly just an association thing rather than the polyester itself. Whilst I was off following a break down I cooked lots of curries to keep me busy. Now, every now and then while cooking a curry it’ll throw me back into that state, usually briefly as I am better at recovering now than I was.
No idea about any pigeons.
I know this might sound bonkers
Yup. In the good old days we could call you a loony, but that's not allowed
...and if it was anywhere near being even slightly true, just take the ****ing thing off and wear something else!
Never wear polyester again and if you get in a bad mood, you can wear polyester again.
That one's for free.
Last time I wore polyester I flew in to a blind rage and the voices told me to burn all my woollens. I now exclusively wear Rayon as it’s a less psychologically manipulative fabric.
Ok so I am a little bit bonkers but I can’t understand it. It seems more than a coincidence
Correlation NOT causation.
Ok mate, perhaps we’re all being a bit flippant. If natural fibres make your mood better then please wear them. Please take care and if you need advice there are organisations better than forums to help, We can get carried away trying to be clever or amusing.
Ok so I am a little bit bonkers but I can’t understand it. It seems more than a coincidence
It may be, but that doesn’t mean it’s the cause. What made you get changed? Why did you put the polyester one on this morning?
Wait a minute, where's me jumper?
A change of clothes is a good way to change a mood I find.
See also showers, shaves etc. Doing something you can control possibly helped you break the cycle.
Pigeon a get supertisious.
Effectively if you put a pigeon in a box and drop food in randomly they will continue to do what ever they were up to when the food dropped. If the food dropped again while they were doing this action, they would do it repeatedly.
So, the food drops randomly, the pigeon can't control the food. If the pigeon is hopping on one foot and food drops, it will continue to hop to make the food drop.
If the food drops again while the pigeon is hopping, then it will continue to hop because it become convinced that the hopping brings the food.
It's haunted.
Bumper to bumper?
It seems plausible to me that the sensation on your skin is just unpleasant enough to add a bit of stress. I get clothing sensitivity issues although it's not usually to do with fibre, more like fit. Your conscious brain can tune these things out but perhaps it's affecting you subliminally somehow.
There's also some suggestion (I can't find solid reference in humans, but a few studies in fish) that synthetic fibres or the chemicals used to produce them could have negative effects including endocrine disruption. I'm not a new-ager pseudoscientist, but given that these things aren't biologically inert it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that you have a particular sensitivity and it could affect your state of mind.
Know what B.F. Skinner ultimately used his pigeons for?
Yes...... One of the worlds first guided weapons.
He trained the pigeons to peck at a picture of a battleship and rewarded their behaviour with food. He then stuffed each pigeon into the front of a surface to air missile with a wee window in the front of it.
As the guided missile hurtled towards a real battleship, the pigeon would peck the window and so kept the missile on target.
Kamikaze pigeons. Love it!
He then stuffed each pigeon into the front of a surface to air missile with a wee window in the front of it.
As the guided missile hurtled towards a real battleship
I'm more intrigued by these airborne battleships you've got.
I’m more intrigued by these airborne battleships you’ve got.
Helicarriers in Avengers films.... so they must be real.
I’m in a black mood so I can’t be bothered to wash clothes, so all I’ve got left is this crappy T-shirt which I hate wearing but I have to wear it and now I’m in a worse mood.
plus your polyester outdoorsy top is one that normally gets to do fun things, but now just serves as a reminder that most fun is currently banned. I put on my running kit when I got up yesterday but freexing sleet and winds means I stayed in the house. Getting undressed in the evening this made me feel particularly shit.
For all its other shortcomings as a material fresh cotton clothes or bedding against freshly clean skin is a lovely feeling.
Supima cotton t-shirts should be prescribed by psychiatrists, polyester proscribed.
I was tripping on mushrooms once and decided I really hated the basketball vest I was wearing b/c it wasn't natural fibres man.... 😀
Is your polyester top black?