Environmental Energy

[Xinyta]

Is it me, or does electricity affect the feeling of a house or general living space? It's something you don't initially notice. But now I just feel attuned to it. I just can feel it.

It's the most apparent that it fills the rooms with energy, when the power goes out. It's like there is this sudden hollowness, when you lose power. The house is obviously the same. But the energy is just... gone. It feels empty without power in the house.

Something about not having power and FEELING the difference, is just jarring to me. Like the house just lost any of the life it had in it.

Anyone else? Or am I just loco in the coco?

 

[Gerontius]

Is it me, or does electricity affect the feeling of a house or general living space? It's something you don't initially notice. But now I just feel attuned to it. I just can feel it.

It's the most apparent that it fills the rooms with energy, when the power goes out. It's like there is this sudden hollowness, when you lose power. The house is obviously the same. But the energy is just... gone. It feels empty without power in the house.

Something about not having power and FEELING the difference, is just jarring to me. Like the house just lost any of the life it had in it.

Anyone else? Or am I just loco in the coco?

It's quieter. The refrigerator, freezer, water heater, any pumps or fans or dehumidifiers, television or anything else ends up stopped. That kills the background noise to which most people are already accustomed and then they become hypersensitive to sounds temporarily,. waiting for sounds to resume.

 

[Forest Cat]

It's quieter. The refrigerator, freezer, water heater, any pumps or fans or dehumidifiers, television or anything else ends up stopped. That kills the background noise to which most people are already accustomed and then they become hypersensitive to sounds temporarily,. waiting for sounds to resume.

That's what gets to me when the power goes out. The sound of silence. Industrial strength silence. I have a battery powered radio standing by for such occasions.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Is it me, or does electricity affect the feeling of a house or general living space? It's something you don't initially notice. But now I just feel attuned to it. I just can feel it.

It's the most apparent that it fills the rooms with energy, when the power goes out. It's like there is this sudden hollowness, when you lose power. The house is obviously the same. But the energy is just... gone. It feels empty without power in the house.

Something about not having power and FEELING the difference, is just jarring to me. Like the house just lost any of the life it had in it.

Anyone else? Or am I just loco in the coco?

There is a saying that sometimes, "Silence is deafening". I know that this is referring to specific social interactions, but within the context of autism, it can be quite disturbing. I know it is for me.

If you're one to have the type of sensory issues around sound, I am thinking, and this is based upon my own experience, that the brain may become accustomed to having that background "white noise", that when it's not there, it is a strange experience. For myself, I can hear the hum of electrically powered equipment, I can sometimes hear the electricity in the wires in the walls, I can hear frequencies of sound well into the 25,000Hz range where most adult humans are limited to around 15,000Hz. I also have 3-5 frequencies of tinnitus constantly, never goes away, even while sleeping, been there since I was born. It's a corticothalamic dysrhythmia. I comes from my brain, not my ears. So, at my house, I have fans that I use, some for my plants, a box fan while I sleep, and if they are not on, my tinnitus can be rather disturbing. I have to have some sort of background "white noise". I cannot use noise cancelling headphones as it amplifies my tinnitus.

Radio frequency radiation has gotten some attention, a type of "environmental energy" that has been "associated" with, but so far, not proven to cause adverse health effects. A "hot topic" with some people. However, I have not seen any evidence that our senses are able to perceive this type of energy.

 

[Xinyta]

I suppose the lack of sound from things that need electricity, is part of it. But I am more talking about feeling electricity in the air when it's running and the complete absence of it, when the power is out. I really don't know how to describe it otherwise.

 

[Forest Cat]

I have heard people talk about similar things before. Some even say electricity makes them ill, I know of a woman who lives in a building with no electricity because of that. When people feel things it could be anything but this is easy to figure out, you just have to be in a room that doesn't have anything in it that visually or audibly tells you if the power is on or off. And then you need someone to turn the power off and on, turn off the breakers to the room. Both makes notes of the time the power is on or off.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

I suppose the lack of sound from things that need electricity, is part of it. But I am more talking about feeling electricity in the air when it's running and the complete absence of it, when the power is out. I really don't know how to describe it otherwise.

Well, you might actually be sensing radio frequency radiation (RFR). In hindsight, there might be something to this, and I might be able to sense it as well, but perhaps just attributed it to the sound (which is there), but not to something else like RFR. Speculating at this time.

 

[vergil96]

Electricity can feel like tingling, because of electrical induction. However, home appliences shouldn't cause this feeling from a distance. This is more true of high voltages, large currents and industrial devices, and easier to sense. There are also electrostatic forces ( e.g. straightening hairs on you), heat, buzzing. High voltage power lines, transformers and telecommunication transmitters placed above your head produce more significant EM fields and hence pose more health risks. Perhaps you have one of those near your house, in or on your house?