Daydreamer
Scatterbrained Creative
I've noticed that I can easily go between dark environments and light ones. People thought I was a little strange (along with other reasons) as a result back in secondary / high school. I remember on several occasions sitting in a classroom after watching a long presentation or a movie and the teacher turning the lights back on without warning. The vast majority of the students would complain about how sore their eyes were and some of them rubbed them because of this sudden change in lighting. I was unaffected. A girl once asked me why I didn't have a reaction; I think I just shrugged and muttered something about not having a problem with it.
Fairly recently I was reading a book where the narrator asked "You know that feeling when you leave a cinema after watching a film and you have to take a moment to adjust to the change in lighting?"
Personally, no that's not something I experience.
I've been to the cinema with my friends before and they've remarked on how their eyes need a moment to adjust after we came out of the theatre room. When I leave the room after seeing a film and we're in the hallway in a differently lit area I don't feel taken aback and my eyes aren't sore. Apparently I'm just completely unaffected. I can switch from indoor lighting to natural lighting easily.
This can be somewhat useful. If I need to go into a brightly lit room after being abruptly woken up from my sleep this doesn't bother me. Weirdly, when I was younger it used to but I seem to have developed a tolerance for it.
Also, there have been moments where I've exited a room and gone to turn off the light switch. Only to realise that the light wasn't on in the first place and the light was from the twilight outside. I forget that I didn't turn the light on in a lapse of judgement.
However, I am sensitive to lights in a different way. Sometimes I'll be sat in a brightly lit room for a while and I'll feel a tingling sensation in my head. Almost as if I'm slightly disorientated. It's a feeling that's bizarrely similar to how I feel when I'm hanging out with friends and suddenly hit a low in my social battery and have to retreat to recharge.
I find it interesting that I am seemingly under-sensitive to light yet over-sensitive to quite a few things. Somewhat fascinating to me how everyday perceptions can vary between individuals.
Fairly recently I was reading a book where the narrator asked "You know that feeling when you leave a cinema after watching a film and you have to take a moment to adjust to the change in lighting?"
Personally, no that's not something I experience.
I've been to the cinema with my friends before and they've remarked on how their eyes need a moment to adjust after we came out of the theatre room. When I leave the room after seeing a film and we're in the hallway in a differently lit area I don't feel taken aback and my eyes aren't sore. Apparently I'm just completely unaffected. I can switch from indoor lighting to natural lighting easily.
This can be somewhat useful. If I need to go into a brightly lit room after being abruptly woken up from my sleep this doesn't bother me. Weirdly, when I was younger it used to but I seem to have developed a tolerance for it.
Also, there have been moments where I've exited a room and gone to turn off the light switch. Only to realise that the light wasn't on in the first place and the light was from the twilight outside. I forget that I didn't turn the light on in a lapse of judgement.
However, I am sensitive to lights in a different way. Sometimes I'll be sat in a brightly lit room for a while and I'll feel a tingling sensation in my head. Almost as if I'm slightly disorientated. It's a feeling that's bizarrely similar to how I feel when I'm hanging out with friends and suddenly hit a low in my social battery and have to retreat to recharge.
I find it interesting that I am seemingly under-sensitive to light yet over-sensitive to quite a few things. Somewhat fascinating to me how everyday perceptions can vary between individuals.
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