Do we exhibit patterns of heightened/weakened activity that has been classified for medical professionals examining/treating newly-admitted patients?

Having sat with my mother in-law through several hospital visits, I’ve watched her go through a few phases:

1. Initial excitement about all the attention she’s receiving, being gracious and kind, polite;

2. Big drop in energy due to too much excitement/stimuli, being courteous and just slightly impatient/grumpy;

3. Slow rise in energy level as she recovers from illness/injury, trying to keep new information straight as her thoughts clear up and she returns to her cheerful self.

Through it all, we assure her the world is not coming to an end.

And I have to ensure myself I have not aligned my thoughts too closely to hers, for I am neither 93.5 nor a woman so, although our socioeconomic backgrounds are nearly identical, we have small but noticeable differences.

Sensitising one’s states of energy to some sort of quantum synchronisation-like shared condition with another is a curious trait to believe one has.

There are days when I read my words and feel like they were spoken by my mother in-law, not me.

Spooky? The chameleon in me thinks not.