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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hoooly crap
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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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still convinced you're some kind of kwisatz haderach after that other thread
what are the 15 stages of breathing?
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Lol oh I'm just God's bonsai tree and had my first ego death at age 7. Speedrun.
They consist of distinct sensations in nostrils, nasal cavity, throat, windpipe, lungs, ribs, diaphragm, stomach, belly fat, belly muscles I can't name, internal pressure, gas levels etc
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gas levels! say more about gas levels!!!
One of my many hobbies as a kid was diving with no diving equipment and I learned to track how it feels to have CO2 in my lungs and what good fresh air feels and tastes and smells like. I have a feel for CO2 and O2 on separate sliders, where "low on neither" is also distinct
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this seems useful. i only figured out how to track the taste of CO2 in my mouth a few months ago and i don't think i know how it feels in my lungs yet hmmmm
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