The... sensitivities are a thing I'm bad at talking about, but I feel compelled. I've always, always been able to see/perceive a whole range of things that are not, apparently, on other people's radars. Until age 12 or so, I just assumed everybody could see them, and ignored them. Once I started asking about it, I quickly learned that it wasn't the case, and that I should keep my mouth shut about it. With the advent of the internet, I was able to put sciency-sounding names to some of them (synaesthesia, phosphenes, sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, visual snow...), but never all. And even the ones that are catalogued in the literature aren't really explained. Lots of theories, no proof. Still, I've spent most of my life filing that stuff away in the "neurological oddities" drawer and largely ignoring it.

Except the haggings. Those can't be ignored. And the thing is, the other stuff sneaks out around the edges, too. I can't really ignore it when I get bad vibes from people and places. That's clearly survival stuff. I got savvy enough not to mention it, but never dumb enough to dismiss it.

One of the really nice things about hanging around in JMG's comboxes has been... the freedom to open that drawer and look at the contents in a different light. Some may still get filed away as "crossed neuron" stuff, but the rummaging has been fruitful. Some of those things are definitely real. I still don't know exactly what they are, but hey, they exist outside my head, and are worth some examining. And some of them have become clearer now that I no longer pretend they aren't there. You seem much further down that road. Baby steps :)