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Cumol  ·  3847 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction

I know what you mean. For me, it depends on which perspective I read/watch things.

Before I started my studies in medicine, I would shrug from every picture of injuries I would see. But depending on how I am viewing the current thing, either from a normal point of view or from a professional/scientific point of view, I might find the same picture of a severe injury disgusting/painful or interesting...

Reading this article was like reading a scientific article. I felt a mix of empathetic pain and interest or curiosity, like at this part:

    In moments of sheer desperation, when even the soft sounds and scents of the deck where she lies cannot calm her, he spews rose water into the air above her bed. When it falls to her body below, Grace cries out as if it’s lava. “OW!!!!” she howls.

I felt her pain, but in the same etc. I was wondering what lead to this severe reaction to tiny drops of rose water on her skin. Does the drops trigger something?