getting more sensory over time

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i noited over the last 2 years i become more sensitive to light.
why would this be?

Okay, a couple of ideas . . .

Maybe you need new glasses and so you do better with evening light? (what photographers sometimes call the 'golden hour')

Maybe different fluorescent lights are now being used at school or work?

Or, maybe you're getting less sleep these days for example, and thus have less energy reserves to call upon?

and I'm sure there are other possibilities as well.

I have no idea about that. I've certainly become more 'sensory' to my dad scraping his plate. Either I never noticed he did it before, or I've become more sensitive to the sound. It drives me up the wall and I can't help to comment on it and why he has to make so much noise when eating. Nobody else makes as much noise as he does.

Perhaps though like the above said, you need glasses, or a new prescription in your current glasses? You could get those glasses with the tints in them, so they change according to the light levels?

It might be the season change. Spring is here now, so it might be that?

Interesting, I noticed something similar occurring about six months ago; I suddenly started getting nauseated in the presence of fluorescent lights, but only on bad sensory days when I was already overwhelmed. Lighting was never something that bothered me before, and it seemed as if it occurred out of the blue. I would second the recommendation for tinted glasses, even the pale blue or pink sunglasses. They have specialized "irlen lenses" typically used by dyslexics who have a hard time reading black words on a white background, but the tinted colours might work for your light sensitivity too.

Sometimes I think I've become more sensitive to certain sensations over time. Things like crowds and loud music didn't used to bother me as much as they do now. I also was a lot better at holding in my "feelings" and emotional reactions to such sensations in the past. Maybe it's due to having tried to appear "normal" for most of my adolescence and early adulthood - I just can't keep up the facade anymore.

Maybe. I've become much more sensitive to certain lighting.

I think I have become more sensitive to certain sensory elements.

Here is how I explain it currently:

As a child, I dissociated any time anything was uncomfortable--pretty much automatically. It was a useful defense. I was seen as "under-responsive" and even had my hearing checked several times because my parents believed that I was deaf!

At some point in adulthood, definitely after I had children, but possibly before--I didn't WANT to dissociate. (It would be highly unsafe when in charge of children!) So, I had to stay present...and so many more things bugged me. Everything, everywhere is too loud. I have to find a whole new set of coping techniques now.



Or...it could be a stress load thing for you. When I am stressed, noises and touch bother me significantly more than when I am relaxed.

Are you stressed?

I notice a big change with higher stress/ high activity days. My tolerance just takes a nosedive, and small irritants are suddenly overwhelming.

[quote="BeggingTurtle"]Maybe. I've become much more sensitive to certain lighting.[/quote
Same.

is thy anyway to improve?