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Originally Posted by Phaelen Bleux
Then you've never done a post-mortem on a cow that has been out in the field for 4 days in July!
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HA, yes I imagine that is quite disgusting. But I would think that's more a physical reaction to a noxious smell, sort of similar to a kind of inhaled syrup of ipecac. I've experienced varying degrees of nausea from being around certain horrific putrescent odours. But I wouldn't compare that to a Fright Check result indicating nausea... it isn't psychological, it's physical (or, potentially, the mind is preemptively making you nauseous / retch to prevent you getting sick from exposure). Some people only have to see something like that, or it's the idea, and there's no smell involved, and that's purely psychological.
That phenomenon is one with which what I'm not familiar.
On the other hand, I have noticed I seem to have a weird kind of perk where my emotions are almost entirely disconnected from my sense of sight (with the exception being that one squeamish "menace response" about seeing or thinking about anyone's eyes being touched, my own, others, even sometimes cartoon characters). I've never experienced any emotional reaction from seeing anything. Now, when hearing is in the mix, I feel, and I feel most strongly when I actually engage and talk about what I've experienced. But sight and feelings don't intersect in me; I also am completely devoid of visualizing or creating any mental pictures (it all is more like lists of textual descriptors in my head), and I'm guessing that has the same root cause. The latter thing caused me to take a serious dip in my math grades in high school geometry, if I couldn't convince my teachers to allow me to solve the problems algebraically instead of bothering with what to me were confusing squiggles that slowed my brain down to a crawl but to others were useful graphs and shapes; fortunately in university they never cared if I took an algebraic approach instead. Give me a table of numbers over a stupid graph or chart any day!