Shannon:
It's embarrassing, but I go months without watching television, even reading the news because it just is too stimulating. In a strange way, I live in a cave. My blinds are covered by black-out drapes, to shut out the light, so that I may effectively "desensitisize." (No, it's not for some occult religious purpose. I am not a vampire, although, in my teens I did go through a Goth phase. Too much light gives me rude headaces. I find I just need to "decompress" or jump into the "void" or the "tunnel."
Why do we perceive things so "intensely?" This is a mystery.
Confession: I haven't been to a movie in YEARS--lighting, specifically strobe problem due to epilepsy. The sound is too loud too. I wear dark glasses a lot of the time. The sensual cacophony overwhelms me. So, small doses of highly stimulating stuff, increasingly so, lately. I feel like an alien or someone from the backwoods of post-modern popular Canadian civilization.
Hsp-highly sensitive people. Interesting.
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