I don’t remember if it was always was like, this but this happened to me with two different microwaves in two different houses. It mostly happens when touch the top of the microwave, but it can happen with the door too.
I though that it was just something unavoidable with microwaves and didn’t mention it to anyone, but today i decided to tell my mom and, she said never had any microwave electrocute, same goes for my sisters.
My little sister did comment that i have high energy(what they call my ADHD) as the probable causes. I don’t really that possible but i have discovered weird things about my biology before(e.g if i leave my computer screen on in my room, i can feel its heat even under the blanket and cant sleep).
Update: I still do not know why i get shocked while my family don’t. I told my sister to touch the microwave door and she didn’t feel anything, then i put my hand next to hers and we both get shocked. I have a theory that’s its cuz i am very hairy? Either way, i am told there are lot of possible causes
What kind of socks do you wear?
No seriously.
If you asked me how to get a static shock from touching any metal appliance I’d tell you to experiment with different materials of sock and different carpets.
I doubt it has to do anything with your biology or adhd (unless it causes you run around on the carpet more)
Bare feet actually and there is one carpet in the house far away from me.
There’s still other fabric interactions that can happen. I consistently build a charge getting out of my office chair at work. I wear shoes. I’ve become accustomed to tapping my arm the door frame on the way out. 10/10 times in the winter (dry air), I get a shock. Maybe 7/10 times in summer (more humid, but with AC). Nearly everything I wear is cotton. Sometimes nylon shirts and I assume my socks have spandex or whatever the elastic stuff is. Still, not the clothing known most for static.
Do some testing. See if any other metal things can cause a static shock. A metal home door, a car door, the fridge, toaster, whatever.
- Can you ever get two shocks in a row?
- Passing not, does standing there for 3 minutes let you get shocked by the microwave again?
- If not, can you go back to wherever you usually sit and immediately come back?
I suspect you will find some repeatable sequence. Even if a second shock is weaker, it’s still a sign you’re finding the cause. It’s not ADHD. Electrical energy is very different from the “electricity” in your nervous system and brains. Vastly different in terms of voltage because your nerves are driven by chemical reactions, not massive magneto coils.
As for the heat of the monitor, if you can trust someone, try a blind test. Make sure your eyes can’t see anything. Have them switch the monitor on and off in some way you can’t hear the switch. There is so little heat from modern monitors, blankets block so much heat, and you are likely quite far for radiation heat to be detectable. Honestly, I’d chalk this up more to the ADHD or something else psychological. It’s not that you feel the heat, its that you’re convinced you can feel it and you body is reacting in weird, repeatable ways. Like you just can’t stop thinking about and now body is reacting in a defensive way. Maybe fulk fight or flight with adrenaline, that flushes you with heat. Does your heart race?
- Electrocution is the act of executing someone via electricity. ELECTRical exeCUTION
You’re getting static shocked, not electrocuted (hopefully).
- As was already said, ADHD is not imbuing on your person a static charge. Either you wear clothing that has a higher predilection toward generating static charge (wool for example), or perhaps you scuff your feet along the floor a lot when you walk, or some other reason. It’s far more likely to be a behavioral cause than it is a biological one.
Just so you know, if you had been electrocuted, you’d be dead.
I should probably mention that in my native language there is no word for shock Electrocution is used for both, or rather all three.That the reason for my little sisters comment, its actually a pun as they do say high electricity instead of high energy.Nevermind, I think I am wrong on that one
Native English speakers do something similar where they say someone can be “electric”. I’ve had my share of idioms being misunderstood as realistically accurate and I see others all the time.
If it was a joke the whole time, we missed it. It’s hard to convey a humorous tone by text.
No, I just meant that my sister meant it as a joke, but I thought about it abit more.
Reason why I said electrocuted is cuz that the literal translation from my native language.
But I swear ppl on the internet say electrocuted instead of shock, at least from what I seen.
How much polyester do you wear? Those have a tendency to build a charge.
I sometimes get zapped from unearthed metal objects like chairs when I wear poly
Shopping carts are my issue.
The environment matters more than what it is.
My old office space everyone would get shocked from the metal cubicules with fabric sound dampeners. Like, enough that you saw a blue flash even with bright office lighting. It could be how you sleep, I stayed at an Airbnb and pulling the blanket apart from the sheet set off a bunch of blue sparks consistently.
Even if someone touches the same microwave and it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t rule out the environment.
It is 100% not in anyway related to if you have ADHD. Or whatever the fuck “high energy” is supposed to mean.
All the weird shit you think is happening, is just normal human psychology.
Our brains need reasons for things, but really doesn’t care what reason or if it makes any sense.
This is the entire reason religion inevitably shows up. Or “cargo cults” after WW2.
Our subconscious is doing a lot more of the heavy lifting then we assume, our conscious mind just rationalizes shit. Rather that where ever you’re getting the “high energy” stuff, look into real psychology studies. There’s some really cool shit out there, and it’s actually real.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
Literally, right now there is an entire nother “you” in your own head, it just can’t communicate verbally.
Most likely that “you” wanted you to turn the fucking light off so you both could sleep better. It can’t verbalize that thought, even internally. But it can make the side of your body it controls feel warm and get “your” attention that way.
I know that’s a long rant, but there’s plenty of weird shit out there already, we don’t need to invent new imaginary weird shit
