Empaths

[Odinn]

Dear fellow empaths,
are you as sensitive to noise and smells as I am too? it is mentioned in the storm book as well..
Especially my disgust towards artificials smells, like some perfumes for example is getting intensified, me thinks.
And the noise... living in the city is really a learning experience for me. Do you also get these ideas from time to time to simply escape and live on a lonely island?

Meerie, you can't imagine how I identify with with this... At times a light, bearable headache may become a hellish experience just because I get in a kitchen in which something is being fried with olive oil; if I take the subway or a bus and someone sits by me wearing a too much (bad) perfume, i have to change to another place; even make-up smells usually too intense to me.

And as for the noise, well, suffice it to say that I'm using physiological silicone earplugs since more than ten or 15 years ago; I can't get to sleep without them anymore. My thinking about living in big towns has evolved to the extent of considering them gates of hell. When I go downtown, I go always listening to the music with those little earphones that almost stick into the ear and allow me hear more what I want, the music, than the noise outside. Bali or Tahiti might be, for me, as paradise as an isolated hut or cabin in the mountains (I prefer the cabin actually ). Boy, I could make this post much longer...

Synchronicity thing turning up again?