visual disturbances/sound disturbances

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I had a music lesson a few days ago, and no information was getting in. I was having trouble seeing, in that the visual images were there, but they were completely disconnected from my ability to process them. It was almost like attempting to look through a huge gap in space where everything turns black before it reaches you. I was actually physically squinting trying to compensate. I know this is not explained well, but I don't know a better way to verbalize it. It also happens with sound, where it bounces off your ears and there is significant delay before processing. I have always had this problem, but its never been this intense. Normally I can somewhat refocus and shake it off, but this time I was way further back and couldn't break through it.
Is this an Asperger thing or is it totally unrelated? If it is. how do you get out of it, and how do you put it in words for someone else? I don't think someone could really "get it" unless they had experienced it, but I have to figure out a way to communicate this to another person, and I have no idea how. The inability to communicate what is really going on is so incredibly frustrating, which just makes it worse because you are fighting a meltdown.

Yep, it's an aspie thing. It sounds like you are experiencing sensory overload. It can get really difficult to process things during it. For instance, I was in the grocery store yesturday and like almost everytime I am in a store, I was feeling overloaded. My brain was having a very difficult time processing visual input and it became extremely difficult to locate the things I wanted on the shelves even when I was looking straight at it.