Sensitive to vibration

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When I'm in public places I can feel vibration through the floor as people move about or from ducting or underground car parks or I don't know what
It freaks me out.
I ask people I'm with, "Can you feel that?"
And they don't even know what I'm talking about.
They have to concentrate really hard to feel anything and then it doesn't bother them at all, while I feel like I'm walking around in the middle of an earthquake.
Why is this sensation so strong and what can I do to lessen it?
I don't want to be a freak-out machine.

I can't offer you any solutions but I too am very sensitive to vibrations. I find being in a car/vehicle utterly miserable, in no small part to the constant vibrations. Even in other situations I notice them a lot.

I have this type of sensitivity too. Makes me feel uneasy and sometimes even kinda nauseous.

I find it distracting and at times nauseous inducing, but at one point I did find it unsettling. If you're like me the science behind why it shakes might help ease the concerns over it.

For the most part it's harder to break something that bends than it is to break something that doesn't. So engineers and architects design buildings and parking garages to actually bend and sway. This enables them to build stronger structures that can handle more weight. It also helps them stand up better to high winds, earthquakes, hurricanes, bombs, accidents, etc.

So while definitely an annoying occurrence it is a beneficial one for everyone's safety.

When I mention vibrations to people they give me a look as if I'm going insane. The worst is when I'm in bed because I can feel the tiniest movements and vibrations through the bed. I can even feel my pulse causing the bed to move. It used to really freak me out because no one else notices and I was worried I was going crazy or under attack by a poltergeist.

I have these feelings too, and I notice them strongly when working in certain places with real vibrations, e.g., certain offices in midtown Manhattan that are built over subway lines and vibrate when trains go through.) But I also get similar sensations that don't seem to be connected to real external stimuli.

I don't understand it, but some of these are some kind of "phantom vibration" a disturbance of proprioception that emulates the experience of being on a vibrating floor, but without any detectable external cause.

There have been times when I have asked why the building was shaking and then people have reported that there was a very small earthquake in the area. There have been other times when they have just thought I was crazy.

I hadn't thought of the poltergeist option.

Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only 'crazy' person here
I suffer the nausea too, but it's mostly the sensation of unsteadiness, like the floor will collapse underneath me, that is panic inducing.

I've recently taken up paddle boarding.
I wonder if getting accustomed to the wobbliness of the board on water will help to desensitise me a little.

Vibrations bother me too.

In fact, I went to a club for the first time just a few days ago and I had to leave when they turned up the base because the increased vibrations made made me extremely uncomfortable.

Some buildings and some elevators are really bad; the vibrations make it feel like the floor is going to collapse underneath me which is worrying, or that my legs are going to collapse underneath me which is struggling (this should be an adjective) and frustrating.

Riding in vehicles or listening to someone else's loud music is also miserable; these vibrations make me feel nauseous, or that my movements are unsteady, as if the vibrations affect my vestibular and proprioceptive senses.

The worst experience though was being inside an MRI machine. The machine was very loud, but I was warned beforehand, so I could come prepared mentally and with ear plugs. The machine also generated a lot of vibration and heat, which no one at the doctor's office warned me about, and no one online either, so I was entirely unprepared. So it feels as if I have an ear infection (from pressure, pain, and muffled sounds), dizziness, shivering and fever.

It could be that it freaks you out because of infrasound. That's sound waves that lie below human hearing, but can resonate with your body. This leads to feelings of unexplained anxiety in people, and is responsible for a lot of ghost sightings. They're harmless especially at such low volumes, they just cause your body to react in weird ways. Maybe rationalizing that it's just your body reacting to something unusual could help.

I'm not super sensitive to vibrations, but the earthquake simulator (basically giant subwoofer under the floor) in one science museum that I frequent makes me anxious. It even vibrates the floor in the neighboring exhibit. I can also feel the pipes in my house sometimes, as well as subways and metros when I go to big cities.

this mostly only happens while getting haircuts... haircuts are horrendous (emphasis on horrendous). cars are ok though still annoying. busses I don't like but I have to ride them.

Many years ago I had a freelance job in big office building in Manhattan, 777 Third Avenue. I thought the elevator felt strange as I went up in the morning, but the other people from that company who I was with said they felt nothing.

I went out to get lunch and when I came back there were ambulances, police and firemen at the building. That elevator car had an accident and injured people. It was a weird thing where the cables holding certain counterweights snapped and the car shot up the shaft until it hit the top, throwing everyone into the ceiling. I decided to err on the side of trusting those weird senses, even when there was no obvious reason for the feeling.

I can feel or here distant vibrations, often vibration from sound, can't stick a club with too loud of sound due to vibrations making me nauseous, or upsetting the contents of stomach. Interesting though it may be, like playing a movie, I can feel the vibrations from sound through a held instrument like a glass without the subwoofer on.

I have been severely sensitive to purposefully induced vibration since I was very young. I cannot play video games in which the controller vibrates, even if the controller is my cell phone. My family keeps rumble turned off on some of the controllers in our house, just for me. It is very uncomfortable for me to carry a cell phone, but I do (its not optional these days). Being in a car is uncomfortable for me, but also not optional. However, I used a vibrating toothbrush for years without thinking about it. I think the difference is that cell phones buzz you when you least expect it, such as when merging into traffic. And video game controllers add to the already intense game, plus they vibrate extremely intensely. Cell phones vibrate to get attention, and game controllers vibrate to thrill the player. My brain is harmed when it gets too much input, and vibration makes that happen easily. Some game controllers vibrate much more intensely than others. Other people don't even remember it when video game controllers vibrate. Sometimes I ask people whether or not the controller of the game they just played vibrated, and they say it did not. Then I try to play and it vibrates. When this happens, the effect is similar to electric shock. As a reflex, I drop the controller and jump up from my seat, severely startled. This only happened a few times, because now I am terrified of it. I wish there was a way to completely disable vibrating on cell phones, or turn down the intensity.

Yeah I got freaked out by some vibrations at a bus stop once. But the Bus stop was located on an overpass for the light rail, so basically I was on a bridge the light-rail goes under. So yeah after I thought about that it was fine, because of course it will vibrate a little if its not solid underneath, especially with large vehicles driving over.

i'm not that sensitive. one day, my neighbor was taking down a big tree that he had already cut all the branches off of. it was going to come down on the front end of my gravel driveway. we got all the cars cleared out so he could do it. i was about 40 meters from where it hit and i could feel that in the ground. it felt very uneasy even though i knew it was solid ground. so i can imagine how you might feel. i guess i am just more typical for that sensation.

but, i seem to be hypersensitive to the vibration of brushes and the sound of chalk on a chalk board.