• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    Synesthesia. I can see music. It’s fun.

    Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      23 days ago

      Oh I got that to a lesser degree. At night, I interpret sudden bangs (door slamming) as flashes of intense white light.

      I realised that the lights were not real (phantom lightning, or bright outdoor lighrs winking on and off) once I started sleeping with a blindfold

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          23 days ago

          I don’t think so – the noises I hear are real, they’re just accompanied by flashes of light if my brain can’t place the source of the sound in realtime

          • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            23 days ago

            I can’t really speak for you of course, but I can add that I thought it was the same for me. Until it turned out I was the only one who was hearing these noises.

            • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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              23 days ago

              Hah! Oh jesus, this will be a fun rabbithole for me to think about over the next few years.
              Appreciate the warning, stranger

              • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                23 days ago

                Here’s a redditor that describes it quite well:

                Me. I have this. Happens several times a night. Sounds like a door slamming or a gunshot. The weirdest part is you also get the feeling that there was an impact, like that feeling when someone stomps near you. So it’s not just auditory it’s almost physical. It’s a very strange thing and hard to describe because you’re always 3/4 of the way asleep when it happens. I’ve had it my whole life and always found it curious but have never questioned it out loud. I thought everyone had this until I saw “exploding head syndrome” on the internet. Asked my parents and siblings, no, none of them have this and what the fuck am I talking about? I’m in my goddamned 40s and thought this was normal.