I expected the heightened sensitivity to smells and tastes, and the emotionality, but I didn't expect the sensory sensitivity to apply to so many *other* things:
sound
minor interpersonal fluctuations
plans gone slightly (slightly!) awry
clothing texture
etc
blargh
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I've even come close to sensory overwhelm during meditation due to paying too much close attention to my subjective experiences at the phenomenological level
had to back off from that a bit
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I'm super sensitive to most sensory data and I've never been able to do sitting meditation! It'd be cool knowing what a breathing focused meditation where you calmly notice each event feels like with average sensory calibration. For me it's 80 events in every second, too much
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It's absolutely wild to me "breathe in" and "breathe out" could be single events, there's at least 15 separate stages i distinguish in both + whatever pains, moods, thoughts and plans flit through my mind. Add any environmental data input and it's totally unbearable
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i think they’re only single events for noobs and you’re supposed to be able to distinguish more if you keep practicing? but damn sounds like you have a shit-ton of sensory clarity already
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