What are your sensory nightmares?

Cream 🤢🤮 it's taste and texture is disgusting. Also same I hate wet socks from the unknown, crumbs on feet/bed. Sudden moderate to loud noises. Being in a group of more than 2 other people, I just shutdown or go.

Seal fabric. Can't stand it.

Silk just silk

Certain types of synthetic type fabrics make my skin crawl.

Having sweaty / kind of wet hands with sand on them. Omg can't explain it but ew ew ew.

Mine is when glasses out of the dishwasher are squeaky and socks - cannot wear socks it makes me go into meltdown most times. Slime as well - can’t stand it 😫

I have many but stepping on sand,eating cauliflower and lasagne as well as the texture of clay\play doh

Touching q-tips, cotton pads or similar. Eating spicy food. The feel and sound (and even just the thought of the feel of) styrofoam. Loud places (of any description) My teeth on wooden cutlery Spray Deodorant Fireworks

Oh and wet socks

Watered down hand soap and the feel/sound of styrofoam 🤮

Any type of noise that I don't have control over is upsetting 😭. At least earbuds help me though because it gives me sound that I have the ability to control, which is calming. Stim toys also help me

When your washing the dishes and the wet glass scrapes together😭😭😭

Mashed potatoes and anything that is not designed to be mashed. The exception is mushy peas and mashed plantain. I also hate the background base of rap. Ambulance cherrys and sirons, flickering lights on business signs ext. A certain type of light blue Christmas lights I can see flickering even when others don't. This is just the top of my list.

Being wet other than when in a shower,not having something soft on my feet and loud noises are my biggest ones

A specific type of zip tie from my childhood where even seeing a picture of it makes me nauseated. Wet paper and wet hair not attached to someone's head. My sister used to chew on her hair, and the thought still makes me wanna hurl. Also I get overwhelmed by lots of discordant noises. It feels like I'm being hit from all sides by walls of sound.

I fine too many people a trigger for me or when people ask you too many things at once

I just audibly cringed at both of those.😥

Having somebody eat and breathe really loud while they're next to me.

My own hair touching my skin blow dryers too many things to list rn I will tell you later

Touching chalk or even worse a chalk board. Also withdrawals where you can feel your own skin, like having a really bad flu. Big yikes on those for me!

Tags in clothes! Absolute nightmare, so many clothes of mine have holes from where I ripped the tag out coz manufacturers seem to think the tag and the clothes should be integrated like rebar in concrete 😂

Touching anything after I've washed my hands, light touches like if someone softly brushes my hand by accident feeling anything on my neck, chewing even if it's me I have to use headphones whilst I'm eating, I can explain it but go through times where I can stand anything crunchy in my mouth, I have to wear shoes or slippers with a sole everywhere can't stand the feel of my foot even in socks on the floor, Styrofoam, velvet and silk 🤮 that's a few aha

Touching paper after freshly washing my hands, chalk, overlapping sounds, tight clothing, sudden lighting changes... I think that's it. Weirdly I love to listen to loud music.

W e t eggs while washing dishes and multiple layers of clothing. I can't do it I can literally feel each layer rubbing together

Being near a bottle bank when it gets unloaded and then bird scarer or fireworks goes off and not have my earpugs or headphones or my loops, or any lound noise that I can not get way form. Or getting lost in a shop can’t find the person I am with.

Slime,can't do it. I know there's more but I'm drawing a blank right now.

Spiders

The wet socks thing! This is one of my big ones. Also, the sound of our large dog licking himself and many others

Wet clothes of any sort but particularly socks as it means I haven't noticed it and adds shock factor, crumbs in the bed, that weird swish sound when you have waterproof coats rub against itself as you walk and any bottoms sounding similar ... I can't wear coat hoods for the same reason, wrong texture food like when you bite an apple it's meant to crunch not be soft or feel vaguely gritty makes me heave and panic (why do pears smell and taste nice but feel like sand?) , some kinds of microfiber, new toothbrushes, stuff under my nails from when I clean or cook, very slimy or bland food makes me want to cry, complex noises like 2-3 noises at once or more from talking to a foot tapping, loud noises and also crowded places like everyone's loud mumbling away and bumping into me every two seconds

The dentist aunt I had as a kid who would take 45 minutes to 90 minutes to clean my teeth (something that takes a normal dentist 15-25 minutes) when every single “flavor” of cleaning crap was absolute torture, and she also insisted on rubbing it all over my tongue every time at the end or halfway through, to “clean my tongue.” And yes, I also have lifelong ARFID, like another poster. I believe she would also angrily make comments about how “terrible” my teeth were. After I was 10, we started going to other dentists & then moved a million times, and I discovered that no other dentist was ever like her… My sister said she got sued or shut down or something. A few other sensory-hell things for me are: touching soaps / shampoo / body wash / gels, tasting anything that isn’t a “safe food” (ARFID), and hearing or smelling specifically gum that someone is chewing.

Styrofoam is horrible to every single sense and it's even worse combined with the sound of cardboard. Chalk is somehow worse because my PICA wants me to eat it but touching it is hortible.

When my nails touch paper. Makes me want to cry. Also a great many deal of foods (I have ARFID). The worst is probably coconut but apples are a close second. Anything gritty like that, including pears.

Lenticular printings, which are those pictures that look like they move when you do. Even when somebody else touches them it makes this awful noise that I can feel in my brain

i cant put Qtips in my ears because of the sound, i hate the sound of clothing being rubbed especially if its near my head lol