oxfordtweed | Is this normal?

I've a fairly impressive... something on my arm. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a cut, or a gouge, or what. But there's a decent-size patch of skin missing. I don't know what I did to have this happen, and only noticed it before I went to bed yesterday (by which point, it seemed already to have been well on its way to healing).

I frequently don't notice injuries. I put this down to the sort of pain threshold a person gets when they're uncoordinated and go through several major injuries.

So. Missing skin. Didn't notice it. Don't feel it.

Until I look at it. Well, not even then. I have to stare at it, and I guess remind myself that, hey. My arm shouldn't look like that, and it's Not Normal. And then it doesn't so much hurt as just makes itself known. And stops almost completely once I break eye contact. This is actually how I react to a lot of the odd cuts I manage to accumulate. Unless I'm actually paying attention when I do whatever I'm doing to hurt myself. Then I stick a plaster on it and promptly forget about it.

Interesting.