[Synapse]

This is the definition of it and I find I have spells of this too, anone else?

Illusions: These symptoms are experiences of heightened awareness. Sounds may seem louder, colours brighter, objects closer, or another example is that a familiar voice seems different and unrecognisable.

 

[university girl]

louder sounds, yes. i also get extrememly over-stimulated. too much to take in. too much for my poor brain to sort. it can't figure out what to pay attention to. this is an inability to filter out unnecessary stimuli.

 

[wadey3]

I get heighthened awareness alot especially in a crowd where i find myself listening to numerous conversations around me, it gets quite irksome and makes focusing extremely difficult. does my nut in!!!!!!!

wade

 

[Lilymoonchild]

uh-huh. I have to keep my exposure to people in check, cuz I get way overstimulated. I hate overcrowded places, because I'm aware of the 3 closest conversations around me in addition to my own, and it gets really exhausting after not too long.
Sometimes I feel like my vision is supersharp, but I don't mind that feeling so much, in fact sometimes it's kinda cool.

 

[Monkeydust]

I've had greater sensitivity to sound and a few other things on that list a few times, but my problem was always heightened awareness of myself, not of my environment, if that makes any sense.

 

[LOSTONE]

louder sounds, yes. i also get extrememly over-stimulated. too much to take in. too much for my poor brain to sort. it can't figure out what to pay attention to. this is an inability to filter out unnecessary stimuli.

Yes plenty of over-stimulation here. My brain is doing alomst no sorting anymore.

I get heighthened awareness alot especially in a crowd where i find myself listening to numerous conversations around me, it gets quite irksome and makes focusing extremely difficult. does my nut in!!!!!!!

I can keep track of many many conversations at once the problem is focusing on the one I am participating in.

I also don't like being able to hear everyone because I hear people talking smack about me all the time. I always feel like yelling out ( I HEAR YOU) but usally I just pretend to be stupid.

 

[Da'Burgh]

Everything is brighter, bigger, more effective, etc etc etc etc etc etc

 

[Beth]

I don't think I actually hear or see any better, but I sometimes get where the lights and noises make me feel like someone with sandy hands is rubbing different bits of my brain together. And where even the noise of a car in the distance almost hurts. Same thing?

I'm posting lots. I must have nothing to do. I should get a job or learn Spanish.

 

[university girl]

sometimes the sound of my own voice almost hurts my ears and seems to echo or something

 

[Guest]

i don't really know if it counts for anything but i get these times when i feel like everything is moving uber quickly. i feel like things are being fastforward or that i can't move at the same pace as anything else and i try to stay still and hope it will stop but it doesn't and it's actually physical as well as mental and extremely unnerving.

 

[blackwinded]

i have schizophrenia, and heightened awareness is real common in it. I am very sensitive to lights and sounds and smells. Sometimes it happens that someone's voice whom i know sounds monsterous and strange. I have intense illusions, like i will look at a wall, and i'll see all kinds of evil faces , animals and such popping out from the patterns/texture in the wall. They look very realistic. Sometimes i will look at a tree, and somehow i see it as a face. Also, i seem to see the things in between that no one else really looks at, for example, if i'm driving along at night, instead of noticing all the street lights and headlights of other cars, the dark spaces in between them seem to pop out more.
All of these things get stronger and more intense when i am relapsing.

-Becka

 

[LOSTONE]

blackwinded I feel sorry for you, that must suck to see that crap all the time.

if i'm driving along at night, instead of noticing all the street lights and headlights of other cars, the dark spaces in between them seem to pop out more.

I am also aware of this stuff. I even remember this kind of stuff, it's very strange the things you notice once your mind is unlocked.

I remember strange things like a little tiny stain in the corner of my room I lived in 6 years ago, but I cant remember where the dishes go when I unload the dishwasher. Why? It makes no sense.

 

[Martinelv]

Blackwinded, my heart bleeds for you, really it does. I can't imagine how you've got the strength to go through what you are going through. I remember you saying you've been like this from the age of 4....Jesus. You are a brave soul, and I hope you find a way out of this mess.

 

[Synapse]

As part of the heightened awareness symptoms I experience where colours appear brighter and noises louder this drives my anxiety as a result. You start to feel anxious because what you're seeing is not real and it becomes a vicious circle.

 

[Mipmunk]

I agree with Monkey Dust, I seem to have at the moment too much heightened sense of self, too aware of my own consciousness, either that or I am becoming obsessed with who I am, of which there is no answer.....


Mippy
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[Guest]

Well, I think I have heightened awareness, but it's more due to my HPPD more than my DP/DR. Static vision, tracers, floaters, geometric patterns when I'm really bad, alien-like buzzing in my ears, and so on. Sounds are also 'heightened'; most music sounds as though it has an extra layer to it than before. I can definitely relate to being 'over-loaded' by stimuli -- I think this is where my concentration issues spring out from.

 

[Da'Burgh]

Startle reflex that almost sends me to the moon....

 

[blackwinded]

lostone, martenelv,

thank you both. You are very kind. But really, i dont have it as bad as it might seem. It's actually better that i've been like this my entire life. That way, i am use to it, and it is normal for me. I can;t imagine what it must be like for some people with schizophrenia, because some of them have a normal, happy life until one day, suddenly, they are hearing voices and seeing things and getting paranoid and such.
seeing things and hearing voices and all was scary at first, but now that i have gotten so use to it, i no longer get scared in the least bit. Actually, some of it is quite amazing and very interesting.
but anyways...thanks very much for your support

-becka