The awareness of magnetism, and possibly more.

When I was around 16-17 years old I got headaches when I had a computer running with the lid off. This led me to explore EMF sensitivity.

aka EMF sensitivity
- and MANY other names.
Causes headaches for many who are sensitive.
Usually described as being felt "in the bones".

Cryptochromes

(Cryptochrome)

Table of Contents [hide]

1 2017-11-29
2 2005-05-18 or earlier
3 The Faraday Cage Effect
4 To do
5 Keywords
- 5.1 Keywords I haven't searched for
6 Stuff
7 Magnetic Field Sensitivity Resources

2017-11-29 ∞

I still get headaches, even from computers, but they're not nearly as bad as they used to be. Perhaps technology has improved (likely), or perhaps the effect is not the same for me now.

I can still feel a AA battery being charged or not, and I can be tested to do it. Yeah it's real. I don't know what I can actually do with that super power though. Party tricks, perhaps.

2005-05-18 or earlier ∞

I get headaches around active computers with open cases. This has been a reality for as long as I've worked with them. When I say I get headaches, I mean really terrible three-day brainbusting headaches from hell. I took some time and reproduced this effect on a great number of occasions.

Headaches aside, I found that I could reach out into a live case and predictably get weird aches in my bone marrow. I further explored to learn that magnets and even cells and batteries caused a similar effect.

My interest in learning more was inspired by the Oldschool Godbox project. I wanted to have a case which shielded against EMF which I had suspected I was sensitive to. I brought the topic up for research and did some light reading. I discovered that there is such a thing as EM sensitivity, and it has been researched and documented. It is a scientifically provable affliction.

Since learning of EM sensitivity, I did even more experimentation, even to the point of being able to tell, by touch, how much power was left in a cell. I became mindful of my newfound 'superpower' and began to notice similar feelings from basically any large ferrous or magnetically active material. Maybe it's a sensitivity to the disruption in my own magnetic field? Hrm.. well, magnets piss me off to no end.. and little electronic devices are naggingly painful to carry around. I've since worked with this enough to be able to handle portable music devices.

I suspect that I've trained towards far more sensitivity than most, and so I probably won't find a whole lot of useful information out there. =/ Basically, this is a curiosity.. I consider it a mild form of allergy. Once I can apply this to people, their bioelectric fields and prescient reflexes[doesn't exist], then I'll be interested. ;)

These days, I do carry around my Pentax OptioWP and I've found that I cannot feel the battery at all. Either the rechargable lithium-ion battery holds such a small charge or it leaks so little that I can't feel it.

The Faraday Cage Effect ∞

(Faraday cage)

Named after its discoverer Michael Faraday, the Faraday Cage Effect means that the electric charge on a conductor sits on the outer surface of it. Therefore, no electrostatic field is present within the conductor.

How does a Faraday Cage work? or, Why can a satellite dish have holes in it?

To do ∞

List the links from the godbox case project
Reference U.S. military TEMPEST projects
Reference real-world examples and studies
Reference other people's pages on the subject
Provide links to products related to this issue.
RF shielding

Keywords ∞

hypersensitive to electricity
Electrosensitivity
Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity
Electromagnetic Smog

Keywords I haven't searched for ∞

EMF Sensitivity
Electric Hypersensitivity
Electrical Hypersensitivity
Electrical Oversensitivity
Electrical Sensitivity
Electromagnetic Field Hypersensitivity
EMF Hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity
EMF Sensitivity
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome
Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Electrosensitivity
Electrosupersensitivity
Microwave Hearing
Microwave Sickness
Screen Dermatitis
Taos Hum
Terminal" Dermatitis
Video Operator's Distress Syndrome (VODS)

Stuff ∞

capacitance coupling - Metal objects that are located in the vicinity of an electric field can "pick up" the electric field, so that the metal object will generate an electric field.

Magnetic Field Sensitivity Resources ∞

Last updated 2022-06-04 at 15:25:38

spiralofhope

Magnetic field sensitivity