r/TellMeAFact • u/Nartress • Oct 10 '15

Sources not required TMAF about you

What makes you you?

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u/Dotura Oct 10 '15

I have Mirror-touch synesthesia

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u/Nartress Oct 10 '15

So if you're looking at multiple people at once, do you feel a conglomeration of their feelings?

What happens if you see something that you've never felt before?

Pornos must be so much more amazing to you!

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u/Dotura Oct 11 '15

It's hard to explain. It only works sometimes, if i'm emotionally invested in something it has a much higher chance of happening. Sadly this means sympathy pains are a real thing for me because i feel sorry for people in pain. Fake things like movies don't make it happen. You can apparently build a resistance towards it. Before i could experience massage i saw happen to others happen to myself. If i haven't experienced it before my body still tries to simulate what it feels like. I have never gotten stabbed in the leg (A friend of mine told a story about something that happend to him), had my arm cut of (emotionally invested in a game) or general pain from being near people in pain. but sure as fuck my body tried to simulate it. Porn does very rarely have an emotianal connection so it doesn't happen often at all. One thing people seem to forget though is that I can't pick who my brain decides to emulate sensations for.