10-07-2009, 09:07 PM
There was such a helpful outpouring of response to my last concern on this forum that I decided to post another one.
Does anyone else have painfully heightened senses? I've been this way ever since I was little and it can be a severe annoyance a lot of times. I was wondering if it had anything to do with…well, with all of this.
My vision isn't great in the standard definition of good vision (I'm incredibly nearsighted) but my perception of detail and color is off the charts. My optometrist was dumbfounded at how I had such an acute reaction to movement and light but am almost blind as a bat without my glasses. I remember when I was little staring at colorful objects until people had to pull me away from them. I was so fascinated by the color blue that I would just stand in my babysitter’s back yard and stare at a blue tarp she had over an old truck. Patterns mesmerize me and I can really get lost in something as simple as the grains in my carpet. My husband sometimes gets frustrated when we go into a store and I find something glittery or bright or colorful and kind of space out staring at it until he has to take whatever I’m looking at away.
My sense of touch seems unusual as well. I can feel energy physically, and often I feel as if I’m on pins and needles. The slightest sensation resonates through my whole body. I generally hate being touched by most other people and can be crazy if someone barges into my personal space without an invitation. Just as it is with shiny things, I can spend an indefinite amount of time just feeling a fur coat or a fuzzy blanket.
Taste and smell aren’t so bad, except that I’m a horribly picky eater. I’ve grown out of a lot of it, but when I was little my mom would get close to screaming because I wouldn’t eat anything she would fix. She would buy a brand new jug of milk and I would announce that it had chemicals in it and wouldn’t drink it. To this day I still have trouble with certain foods that have a metallic taste to them. A lot of times I smell things no one else can smell, or I’ll attribute something weird to a smell and no one else can see how I’m making the connection in my brain. I’ll say “It smells like M&Ms in here.” and everyone else is like “Huh?”
By far my worst problem is sound. High pitched noises drive me up the wall. The sound of someone whistling is painful. I hate asking people not to whistle because they usually whistle because they’re happy, but it hurts so bad when I hear it, and I’ve noticed that there’s *always* a whistler, no matter where I go. I’ve come close to crying because of it. At work I’m around a lot of computers that sometimes will emit a series of high-pitched beeps for no apparent reason at all. I can be across the store and hear this and people standing right next to the source are oblivious to it until I point it out. Certain music is out of the question just because of the pitch. For some reason the sound of someone snapping their fingers also makes me insane.
I was wondering if anyone else has had experiences like this and if you’ve found a way to overcome it. It can be a severe distraction and can ruin an otherwise cheerful mood. I like being able to notice things that other people miss and perceiving realms beyond this one, but I’d like to be able to turn it off sometimes so I can not glare daggers at that guy across the street whistling ‘Amazing Grace.’
Does anyone else have painfully heightened senses? I've been this way ever since I was little and it can be a severe annoyance a lot of times. I was wondering if it had anything to do with…well, with all of this.
My vision isn't great in the standard definition of good vision (I'm incredibly nearsighted) but my perception of detail and color is off the charts. My optometrist was dumbfounded at how I had such an acute reaction to movement and light but am almost blind as a bat without my glasses. I remember when I was little staring at colorful objects until people had to pull me away from them. I was so fascinated by the color blue that I would just stand in my babysitter’s back yard and stare at a blue tarp she had over an old truck. Patterns mesmerize me and I can really get lost in something as simple as the grains in my carpet. My husband sometimes gets frustrated when we go into a store and I find something glittery or bright or colorful and kind of space out staring at it until he has to take whatever I’m looking at away.
My sense of touch seems unusual as well. I can feel energy physically, and often I feel as if I’m on pins and needles. The slightest sensation resonates through my whole body. I generally hate being touched by most other people and can be crazy if someone barges into my personal space without an invitation. Just as it is with shiny things, I can spend an indefinite amount of time just feeling a fur coat or a fuzzy blanket.
Taste and smell aren’t so bad, except that I’m a horribly picky eater. I’ve grown out of a lot of it, but when I was little my mom would get close to screaming because I wouldn’t eat anything she would fix. She would buy a brand new jug of milk and I would announce that it had chemicals in it and wouldn’t drink it. To this day I still have trouble with certain foods that have a metallic taste to them. A lot of times I smell things no one else can smell, or I’ll attribute something weird to a smell and no one else can see how I’m making the connection in my brain. I’ll say “It smells like M&Ms in here.” and everyone else is like “Huh?”
By far my worst problem is sound. High pitched noises drive me up the wall. The sound of someone whistling is painful. I hate asking people not to whistle because they usually whistle because they’re happy, but it hurts so bad when I hear it, and I’ve noticed that there’s *always* a whistler, no matter where I go. I’ve come close to crying because of it. At work I’m around a lot of computers that sometimes will emit a series of high-pitched beeps for no apparent reason at all. I can be across the store and hear this and people standing right next to the source are oblivious to it until I point it out. Certain music is out of the question just because of the pitch. For some reason the sound of someone snapping their fingers also makes me insane.
I was wondering if anyone else has had experiences like this and if you’ve found a way to overcome it. It can be a severe distraction and can ruin an otherwise cheerful mood. I like being able to notice things that other people miss and perceiving realms beyond this one, but I’d like to be able to turn it off sometimes so I can not glare daggers at that guy across the street whistling ‘Amazing Grace.’
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). Were it not for that it would be almost a toss up as to witch i am, because i was born in '88. The veil is thick bro! 