What are your favorite sensations?

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i love love love the smell of leather, cant resist sniffing it , that gets me some funny looks in the shops lol, i also like the feel of leather.
i love getting pierced/tattooed
love being rocked in a hug( but hate asking or initiating it)
love to hear my littlest daughter saying i love you, as shes the only person i can say it back to.
love the feelling when i manage to finish a piece of work i actually feel satisfied with ( not often)
love it out in my workshop in the middle of the night when it feels like theres only me and my clay or paint in the universe( though i hate it when it has to stop for me to fit in normal day to day stuff)

oh forgot to add i really love being barefoot, anywhere on any surface, long as my feet arent cold

I was trying to explain on another forum, the subject came up, and funnily enough, I was accused of incorrect self diagnosing by NT's.

They mentioned how a lot of people try to use it as an excuse for social ineptness, or that it means they're something like rainman.


It's hard to explain what an amazing experience it was finding you guys here, I know I'm technically self diagnosed, but only because I trust what my loved ones and family said when they learned what the criteria were, and thought about stuff I do.

Then when I came here and started reading your posts, I understand you guys. I feel you understand me, if I'm not AS, then I'm quite thoroughly confused, and utterly alone, cause I'm not NT either.


I tried to explain a bit of our sensation differences, figured you guys would get a kick out of it.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9B78mnaSNA[/youtube]
Put on headphones, and turn it up loud enough to block everything else out.

In my head, it feels like there are shiny little crystalline shapes dancing around in the first part of the song, right in the back of my skull, behind my jaw.

The synth notes that start up are little slivery bundles of spikes that stab down above my ears and dance around with the changes.

Then new shards swim past with the instrument tracks as the "muh muh muh mah" part enters.

When the bass starts, it's large alternating left and right splashes of big shards of crystal shattering. Left ones starting on the right side of the center of my head, and vice versa. The one with the cymbals accompanying it is especially intense. The big splashes are about as big around as a coffee cup, and the shapes coming from them reach the side of my head.

This all builds and recedes, with the little flourish bits dancing around, and the voice track sitting somewhere up above it all.

When the chorus comes in about at 1:00~, it fills my head with silvery light, and it's so intense I feel like crying.

Pot intensifies it even further, to the point where I can't do anything else but sit and enjoy it. Right now I can type while it's on, though it's difficult.


Does everyone experience this intense semi-synesthetic rush when they listen to music?

Almost all music does this to me to some extent, but certain songs are so intense I just sit and listen to them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... I've been going back and restarting the first part of the song to try to accurately describe what it feels like through just the first minute.

I've listened to it all the way through like 6 times now, plus 5 or 6 restarts.



If I told this to an Aspy, they would most likely use slight different metaphors for the specific mental experiences, but they would immediately understand what I meant. Reading their own versions of these types of sensations, and sharing my own with them surprised me.

They understood me completely, and I them.

I love to be barefoot, too.

Yeah, I also like to listen to the same song, or parts of a song over and over and over and over again. Not to mention the same episodes or movies.

Another one I really like is when you print or copy like a big project, the scent of the paper that comes out of the printer or copier. I love that it feels warm as well.

The top of my husband's foot, just above his toes and before the arch. There's a little patch of skin that feels like silk or velvet and I like to rub my toes against it as I am falling asleep.

My favorite sensations are probably go(o)d and interesting smells and good, passionate music! There's this perfume that turn my guts inside out, and makes me go entirely mad with delight! Ahhhh! I wrote a song about it once. x)

And I looove to be touched in the neck. It's pretty much god-like. It beats sex easily. The drive for sex is bigger, the reward from soft touching in my neck is immense!

oops, double post

I like blood pressure cuffs too. My dad is a Doctor and Ib used to play with his blood pressure cuffs in his old office.

Manually sharpening no 2 pencils since they easily sharpen, and other pencils have tough wood so they can't sharpen easily.
Walking into a warm room or building when it's cold outside.
The pages of an old book, which actually has caused a problem, as I have collected over the years about 80 thick old books that I never read, just open and flip the pages. Yeah. Cause all the books have different pages that smell and feel different. Yeah.

smells affect me the most. laundry powder, freshly mown grass, petrichor (smell of rain on dry ground ), mint, new books, and my mother's cooking - i call them my happy gases.

Salty sea air feeling on the skin of my face.

My thermal spring water atomiser to spray on my face straight out of the fridge.

Strong wind.

The sound of leaves in a breeze.

Rubbing the bare skin on my back on the carpet in circles, using my legs to propel me around Its the best!

Stretching.

To name a few........

Physiological:
Caffeine kick in
Sugar kick in

Sight:
The eyes of an attractive woman
Any exotic automobile
Well built house
Modern architecture, esp. something by Zaha Hadid

Smell:
Armani EDT
Zino Davidoff EDT
Freshly brewed coffee


Auditory:
Ferrari exhaust note, esp. F430
Lamborghini exhaust note, esp. Gallardo/LP560
Classical music on a mid to high level Hi-Fi system
Trance
Duane Allman or Eric Clapton on slide guitar
Good Jamaican dub
Tabla and sitar

Touch:
Polished wood
Soft wavy hair
Steering wheels


Taste:
Chicken burgers
Chicken or Turkey subs
Chicken Manchurian with egg-fried rice
Home-made pineapple souffle
Home-made custard trifle
Local sweets
Lindt Lindor
KitKat


'nuff said I think

leather... the smell the touch and by the way i like wet leather. i love giving people in leather hugs and burying my mouth and nose in it.

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