This thread reminded me (I had completely forgotten all of this, until now!) that occasionally when I was a kid, through to my early 20's, becoming more and more rare over that period, I used to have weird, short experiences that I would describe as "everything sounds angry". These would happen maybe once a year.

I've never actually looked this up before, so I just googled that phrase and found the first few links there's a lot of other people describing my exact experiences, but no one knows a name for it. The first one has multiple people reporting the same thing, but the other two links don't seem to find any responses from people who understand.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Neurology/Surroundings-becoming-weird-and-fast-intense-loud/show/1097402?page=1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080528045810AAxwGKs
http://forums.psychcentral.com/other-mental-health-discussion/114941-everything-i-hear-sounds-angry.html

i just had my most intense episode about 10 minutes ago when i was shaving, shaving is usually relaxing for me, but rather than just a light shave it was more like an intense, angry rain forest massacre with metal music and the crazy screaming of mundane things in my head like..."HMMM BETTER TAKE A BIT OFF THE MOUSTACHE.......I"LL DO MY SIDEBURNS TOMORROWW!!!...."

It's like how part of our brain is really good at seeing faces, so we see them in all sorts of patterns easily -- I guess in the same way, we must have a part of the brain that's really good at guessing the emotional state of someone who's speaking to us (i.e. empathising with the speaker).

In these experiences, that part of the brain seems to go into overdrive, and it starts empathising with everything, and informing oneself that the object that is causing the sound is angry/agitated/frustrated. The object doesn't have to be a person -- no matter what it is, it becomes anthropimophized as being angry.
At the same time, everything is louder and faster, and the sense of hearing is heightened. It's like the world is in fast-forward, while actually being the same speed.
However, the actual perception of sound is unchanged. I objectively know that the sounds are exactly the same as normal... but they're simultaneously louder and faster (I know that doesn't make sense... words fail!).

Footsteps sound normal, but my brain says "those footsteps are frustrated". Someone talking to me will sound completely normal, and I know they're not upset, but at the same time, it sounds like they're yelling... My thoughts or inner voice is in all caps. I'm aware of the sound of my own breathing, or heartbeat, and I know that they're calm breaths, but they sound like the calm breaths are angry --- not the calm breaths of an angry person, but that the inner emotional state of the breaths themselves is anger.

Initially I was confused and probably frightened (I can't remember how young I was when this first happened) and I used to try and make it go away as soon as possible. I realised that if you just distracted yourself, it would go back to normal, like forgetting about a mosquito bite. Or if I spoke to someone, it would go away pretty quickly
However, they were so rare and I was so inquisitive that very quickly these episodes became a great curiosity. Instead of making the experience stop, I would focus on the sounds and try and make it last as long as possible to study it, because it was so... eldritch, otherworldly. I always tried to find a pattern behind the cause of these, but couldn't find anything common, besides maybe being tired, and I was always alone (or if with others, in silence, e.g. reading) when it came on.

I had that shit when I was young too, it lasted just a few months though.. Its funny, cause It was so hard to explain that I never really talked about it, but I remember talking to my mom "mom, sometimes Im looking at something, like the door, and a fear comes to me, like theres something really serious about that door all of sudden".

Older, when I think about it, I was taking those as probably some sort of panic attack.

The way you describe it is really interesting, different than how I would: I always seem it as pure incarnated fear without a reason, like the brain produced fear, but since you dont have any reason to feel it, you associate to where you are looking. It was as intense as if you are about to die, like if theres a life threat going on at the moment. It lasted very few seconds, and gave you that kind of feeling making you want to do fetal position.

I think I was 12 or younger when those started to happen.

It was not that unique but was a bit frightening (and maybe my memories exaggerate it), and I'm still anxious about it:

Once as a teenager I was able to condition my mind to feel that I leaped forward in time. This was done by focusing on a future (a few months if I recall correctly) event or day, strongly memorizing the current day and this conditioning activity so that I can recall it automatically on that future day or event.

This was kind of successful. Obviously I didn't actually leap forward in time, I could remember all the events between the conditioning and the present (I wasn't a Zombie like in the movie Click) but somehow that strong memory of the conditioning did make me feel that it actually happened in the previous moment. It's a bit hard to explain.

It was so scary that I decided to never do it again but sometimes I'm afraid this leaping can happen accidentally too.

(I had one similar leaping experience when I was drunk. I went to sleep then I immediately woke up 6 hours later)

This thread reminded me (I had completely forgotten all of this, until now!) that occasionally when I was a kid, through to my early 20's, becoming more and more rare over that period, I used to have weird, short experiences that I would describe as "everything sounds angry". These would happen maybe once a year.

I get probably exactly the same thing (at least the description above is correct) at the same age about 20 (i got it by 3 years maybe from time to time, overal 5 o 7 times)

each voice (especially tv) sounded like it was strangely angry on something and monotonicaly repeated the note of being angry or more making reproaches, i liked to hear in that note even, it last usualy only a minute or three and vanished

I swore to myself ill never do that again after this, that trip was insane...

The trouble with LSD is that there's always the possibility that you will do it again, without actually taking LSD again. Even years or decades later.

I swore to myself ill never do that again after this, that trip was insane...

The trouble with LSD is that there's always the possibility that you will do it again, without actually taking LSD again. Even years or decades later.

you can do it even without lsd ;/

I've struggled with defining this for quite some time, and when I talk to most people about the issue they tend to just laugh or shrug it off as "just not being an idiot", though I tend to dismiss these claims as the level of the syndrome/mindset/etc. is relatively strong.

I'm set on defining this mental state as "Enhanced Situational Awareness", though it's a challenge to try and describe. My ability to know what's going on around me at all times seems otherworldly. If I'm sitting in an office with nigh dozens of people in the room, I could be in my office and subconsciously know how many people have walked in our out of the office as my brain likes to count how many times the door has slammed open or shut. I have the ability to detect subtle changes in a person, or pick up on their habits that they perform under certain situations. To add to this, I can play simultaneous pre-emptive situations in my head based on the environment around me - if something in that environment changes, those fictional situations will change based on the variables. Much like the ability to see all routes in any given situation prior to that situation happening. Sometimes I miss a situation or two, but the ability to see all of these situations almost simultaneously without as much of an effort given on my part to do so always amazes me when I catch myself doing it.

A couple of examples: Office Worker A is standing out in the hallway in front of my office talking to Office Worker B, I subconsciously see that Office Worker A's posture is pointed toward my doorway, and that his demeanor is that of - once he gets done talking to Office Worker B he is headed into my office to talk to me about something. My mind then shifts to all the different scenarios for which the future conversation might unfold. What questions he might ask, my answers to those questions, counter-questions, greetings, etc. Obviously, anyone trying to could do this but I don't know I'm doing it unless I catch my mind wandering while it's doing this. I'm still able to focus on the work that I'm doing or whatever else it is that has my conscious mind at the time.

I often catch cups, bottles, pens, etc. that people are holding, have set down, what have you. These notices of them not holding tightly enough to an object, or the object sliding, etc. are plain-as-day to me even if I'm doing something else, or somebody else has my complete attention.

I've never been in a wreck before, and I live in a heavily congested traffic city. While I'm driving I can pick out who's not paying attention in their cars, who's from out-of-state and who isn't based on their license plate, who will probably need to turn off this ramp or this one depending on time of day and county that's displayed on their license plate, who's going to cut across lanes based on how hard they're looking in their rear view mirror etc. It's not my focus on one driver either, I could tell you everything I've observed for all drivers around me quite easily if asked.

I think this is what makes me so great at online-RTS or strategy games in general as I'm constantly replaying events in my head for every situation I could possibly be placed in and making sure that I don't get put into a situation I don't want to be in.

It's possible you may think this whole description as a bit of a quack, but based on what I've observed other people's perceptions to their surroundings, and my own, I tend to feel I'm light years ahead of the game around anyone else...it also tends to be quite the overburden at times - more like an information overload.

The easiest way I think I could possibly describe this is with the show House of Cards - how Frank Underwood tends to talk to himself/camera prior to events happening or understanding what people are going to say before they say it based on body languages, current events in his surroundings, etc.

I swore to myself ill never do that again after this, that trip was insane...

The trouble with LSD is that there's always the possibility that you will do it again, without actually taking LSD again. Even years or decades later.

you can do it even without lsd ;/

Well, this drug is more a teenage drug imo, i *might* do it again someday but never 3 at the same time again . Seriously though, i don't even know if i would have the strengh to do this again, it's so taxing physically...

Beside, it's not a drug you can really get addicted on, it don't cause any dependance whatsoever.

I dont really understand what both of you mean, but anyway

I swore to myself ill never do that again after this, that trip was insane...

The trouble with LSD is that there's always the possibility that you will do it again, without actually taking LSD again. Even years or decades later.

you can do it even without lsd ;/

Well, this drug is more a teenage drug imo, i *might* do it again someday but never 3 at the same time again . Seriously though, i don't even know if i would have the strengh to do this again, it's so taxing physically...

Beside, it's not a drug you can really get addicted on, it don't cause any dependance whatsoever.

I dont really understand what both of you mean, but anyway

jhaskell sugested probably that man can get psyhosis after that,

I got psyhotic episode in my life even without this ;\ (it was under the stress environment living way conditions)

When i readed about lsd in the net it seems that psychotic episode i remember was somewhat like slight lsd with some differences

in psyhotis episode i remember my mind was running faster but I was slave of my own imagination, - second overall difference is

that lsd probably is much stronger really,

I got it 10 years ago and it lasted only a couple of hours -

how could i describe it slightly (overall it was maybe 88%

fantastic 12% scary): I got no visuals, nor sound hallucination,

white snow was a bit whiter, warm sun was warmer, i imagined many fantastic things and automaticaly belived in this (this were a whole series of this, for example you imagine than you fire a math then you will get teleported (probably in time to a year 666 ;\), so i was excited, I did it and was not teleported i was instanty dissapointed, then i imagined something other - it was overall

interesting but i was not a manager of my imagination i just belived in everything that i imagined regardless how stupid it was

so it was a bit tiring

(overall i would like to repeat it if i could controll myself in this state but then i could not)

overal other things are valuable to me is a reading good books

(about indians and stuf ) as a youngster - this experience was

much more wide and oxygenic (I got a bit trouble with lungs today and wide oxygene world feeling is a thing i am longing for)

One day while staying at...

Wow, that sounds very interesting. Does this experience have a name to it?

Not to my knowledge. Never heard of it happening to anyone else but then again I’ve only mentioned it about 5 times in my life, including now.

The strangest thing that has happened to me is when I wake up and can't remember how to use my muscles for a few minutes.

My story isn’t a mental problem but it is funny anyway:
I awakened once as a teenager from sleeping on my right shoulder. I decided to roll to my left shoulder, but little did I know that just 1 muscle in my right shoulder was paralyzed/asleep. As I rolled to my back and brought my right arm over me to bring it to the other side that muscle took control at just the right time and my arm dropped, effectively causing me to punch myself in the ^&$%*.

I'm set on defining this mental state as "Enhanced Situational Awareness", though it's a challenge to try and describe.

I most likely have something similar or the same. I am completely baffled by what others miss about what is happening around them. Due to my life in Japan, mostly these days I only have to contend with people on trains. I feel like stomping their feet when they don’t pull them in when I am walking by because there is just no excuse, no matter how immersed you are in a task, not to notice the most basic of all human understandings: Someone is passing by and your feet are in the aisle. One forgets to breathe more often than one fails to notice this.
In navigating a crowd, be it a high school hallway or a crowded train station, I notice all of the subtle details about the 50 or so important “players” in front of me that indicate what decisions they plan to make about their movements in the next 5 seconds or so and how all of them will interact so that I can identify the most efficient route through them (I generally run everywhere for health but even if I am walking I don’t have the patience to walk as slowly as everyone else).

Being with my Yakuza girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter really put me to the test. When she would try to jump from my flimsy little piano chair to my bed I was surprised her mother didn’t consider that the chair is lightweight and the girl would have to use a lot of forward push to get to the bed from there, likely causing the chair to just slide out from under her. I put my foot on the front bar under the chair as an anchor to prevent it from sliding or tilting.
My door handles jut out from the door 2 inches and then immediately to a 90° angle, causing a sharp point at just the perfect height for her to hit her head as she passed by, so whenever we would leave or come back I always got the door for them and held my hand over that point so at worst she could only bump her head into my hand. Everyone else just grabs the handle part, leaving the sharp edge exposed.
Not to mention all the times we would play outside and I would catch her mid-fall in a trip or otherwise predicting and preventing how she might hurt herself.

Like you I also notice cups (etc.) in bad situations, like the one on the floor with water in it as my gaming friends and I sat on the floor playing games. I calculated that if he brought his arm back he would hit the cup and spill it. After about 5 minutes that is exactly what he did, but I had already programmed my response to quickly catch the cup and block as much water as I could (some did spill, but I got most of it).

Basic awareness people!


L. Spiro

I,m Always progamming without knowing what i,m doing, just typing on, its realy a weird experience, usually the results are good.