Old thread sorry... the topic and responses were interesting to me though...

I have a huge problem with noise when I am already in an agitated state, when the stress is up and the commentary in my head won't shut up at me, if there is a lot of noise, especially electronic noise; Tv, video games, radio so on, plus people talking and milling around and movement it is like it all blends into one huge screaming grey static and gets messed up with the static irritation already in my head and I can not even think, just a complete sensory overload.

I had to go sit on the edge of the bottom shelf in and empty asile and just depressurize while we were doing our christmas shopping last month, it annoyed my husband quite a bit (me being so irritated for no reason he could understand)

Ironically, perhaps though, when I am in a very good elevated eveything is shiny mood, especially if it is warm and sunny out, one of my favorite things to do is lie in the grass by myself with my eyes closed and just listen to all the sounds. I can do it for hours if nothing distracts me and just be in bliss and zone out from all my own thoughts while I pick out a story going on all around, the longer I listen I can hear the tinest things, a leaf dropping across the yard and a bug flying by and a ball being bounced down the road... all at once and all seperate 'til it feels like something special has just swooped me into it.