Your awareness of other people vs. other people's awareness of you

kmoss · Apr 29, 2015 at 12:34 AM

it's way easier to focus on things if you don't have to respond to them, which is how I can justify being able to focus better on things with crowd noises and non-english music as opposed to songs i know really well and just a few people talking

Elaienar · Apr 29, 2015 at 8:31 AM

Makes sense. I know it's also hard for me to process/retain anything if I try to input words from two sources at the same time.

lvkz · Apr 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM

Elaienar said: ↑

Huh. I can't focus on a book if people are making noise around me (unless there's enough noise for it to turn into crowd-noises, which are somehow easier to ignore). I like to go somewhere by myself to read.

@lvkz (I've been reading your name as ivkz, no wonder I couldn't get the thingy to work) I finally got around to watching that video and it was super cool, thanks for linking it!

I ... don't think I meant hypervigilance? But I don't know where the line is between "noticing people a lot" and hypervigilance.

(Also: It's 1.30 a.m. and I can't brain and don't energy so I don't really have anything to say but I read everyone's posts! Thank you for your anecdata, I do so like looking at the variety of experiences people have.)
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i've been told i was hypervigilant for the way i expect people to behave/react but it also makes me more sensitive to my surroundings :x
i might not be understanding it correctly

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Your awareness of other people vs. other people's awareness of you

Which one of these is closest to your experience?

I am aware of other people and they are aware of me.

I am aware of other people but they are not aware of me.

I am not aware of other people and they are not aware of me.

I am not aware of other people but they are aware of me.

I don't know.

I have some other experience.

kmoss whoops

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Your awareness of other people vs. other people's awareness of you

Which one of these is closest to your experience?

I am aware of other people and they are aware of me.

I am aware of other people but they are not aware of me.

I am not aware of other people and they are not aware of me.

I am not aware of other people but they are aware of me.

I don't know.

I have some other experience.

kmoss whoops

Elaienar "sorta spooky"

lvkz Well-Known Karkat

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