Weird Sense

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I saw another thread about sense of direction and it got me thinking.

I seem to have an extra sense that no one else I know can relate to. I can sense if someone is sneaking up on me or approaching me without actually seeing them.

I don't really know how to explain it, but I am always tuned in subconsciously to the ambient noise around me. So I can be sitting on the computer and someone can enter the hallway by my room and I can sense it. Even if the person is walking in a quite way. Its like I can sense the change in the ambient sound because their body deflects the sound waves and I can tell they are there and where they are as well.

I can also do this when it is completely quiet also, because even quite has a noise. Don't know if you know what I am talking about there

It is funny because no one can sneak up on me.

This is amplified at night and I am laying in bed. Even the slightest change in the ambient noise I hear will alert me that there is a foreign body in my prescience.

This usually freaks me out at night because my spidey sense will go off but I will not see anyone, everyone is still in bed. That freaks me out because my sense is usually never wrong. Kind of makes me think I can also sense paranormal entities too lol.

Man I must be too weird even for other aspies lol No one can relate to this extra sense?

Most of what you are describing sounds normal to me, I thought this was the way it was for everyone, but maybe some are more sensitive to it than others. My sister and I could both hear the high pitched noise of the electronic alarm systems when we walked in the stores at malls when we were young, so you may have an unusually sensitive ear for sound. After listening to loud music, that ability went away for me.

I don't discount other human and animal senses beyond what we understand as the normal five, but I don't think it is a matter of the super natural, just nature that we haven't found a way to measure yet. Or, perhaps the normal five that are more sensitive in someway, working together in synergy to provide us with information about our environment.

Regarding the quiet noise you are talking about. Cover your ears and you are likely to hear the flow of your blood or your heartbeat. If you listen to any significant noise some ringing of the ears, ever so slight, would be normal after the noise stops. And, there is always tinnitus. I used to take hearing tests for my job and when I was younger wondered what the noise was in the quietbooth when I had the head phones on. It wasn't until much later that I found out it was tinnitus.

As far as paranormal activity I won't rule that out either, except that if it exists it may be something else in nature that we haven't found a way to measure. A person could define their personal meanings of sensations in many ways.

Come to think about it, I don't remember anyone ever sneaking up on me; just never thought about it before.

I can relate, I can almost always tell if someone is in the room with me, walking up on me, or even looking at me from behind. sometimes I don't notice, but usually only if I'm really distracted.

I can also "feel" things without touching them, for example, I can close my eyes and run my hand a few inches above my desk and feel were things like ink pens and other small metal objects. I have trouble with none metallic objects, my guess is that I can feel the change in the magnetic field.

When I was younger I thought that both were normal, but as I've gotten older I've realized that a lot of people can't.


Edit: right after I posted this my "spidey sense" started tingling, and since I'm sitting with my back turned to a glass door I kinda freaked myself out a little. but there's not anyone out there (that I can see) so, I guess it was just my mind playing tricks on me.

I am all too often too aware of environmental noises.

With all due respect, I doubt your report in the absence of some objective test. Are you aware of all the false positives and negatives. Look up observer bias in Wiki.

ruveyn

Oh my god, I have the same thing! Someone can even sneak up on me when I'm sleeping, and not make a single noise, and I'll wake up. Or my hubby can just open his eyes and look at me, and it will wake me up. It's so weird. I also can sense weather changes, etc. Like right now, I'm getting a headache because were about to get a thunderstorm.

I also can hear dog whistles, and a lot of obscure 'silent' noises. I've read that some Aspies have animal senses. I find it so neat!

I get freaked out when left at home at night because I can hear every noise from outside, no matter how quiet. It sounds like it's happening in the house. Although sometimes when I hear things they sound closer than they actually are. That freaks me out too.

I can do that. I always attributed it to good hearing and my brain reacting to sounds before they reached my conscious awareness.

i can do this too; but i dont think it is subconsious hearing; not purely at least, there are too many situations where even that skill would be useless where this sense still works. one great example being parties, where there is music, people talking and everyone around walking/dancing/shuffling their feet.

but for me, this goes even further; if the approacher is someone i know well, i usually also know who it is that approaches me; and i can 'feel' the difference of them getting close to try and scare me, talk to me or if i just happen to be in the way.
i also used this 'power' to determine if new aspiering housemates would fit the group; i have never been wrong about that (this far at least *knocks on wood*).

i tend to hink of this not as super hearing, but more of that 'aura sensation' that the dragonball z characters have; it seems to work simularly anyway; except that i cannot call on it to search someone, it's purely passive...

Yeah, I've always thought I've been able to sense auras! It's almost like, I can't read people normally so my brain makes up for it in another way.

I have something similar - it's not a hearing thing. It's more like a spider sense I suppose - it is kind of like a tingling, centered on the direction of the incoming space invader. Maybe it's an aura thing - I dunno.

My husband has the same thing but his is senses based - super accute hearing and crazy wide peripheral vision.

I can sometimes hear a smile but its nothing extra sensory lol. It's just that sometimes, when people smile, they make certain vocal sounds or there is a subtle change in pitch of voice so you can tell they are smiling without actually looking at them.