Very rarely I get hypersensitive and empathic to peoples emotional states. As if I’ve been color blind for the past years and suddenly I can see a whole new spectrum. As if I’ve been living on mute and then it got dialled up to 11.

I feel like that only when smoking weed (haven’t in years).

The experience is scary for several reasons: 1. It makes me question my reality. Am I making these things up or are people actually feeling like that. 2. People tell me I am sociopathic/autistic/schizoid etc. I do not agree. However, in moments like that I feel as if they actually have a point. 3. I become massively creative and that makes me feel like I am not truly alive 99% of the time. I want to know how to reach this sensitive state when I want to. 4. My lack of awareness becomes apparent and shockingly scary.

Is this a symptom? Could meditation make you numb?

Does anyone else feel like that? Is this something normal for most people but we just don’t know about it as it is not easy to express / it’s intimate.