I, and to this day, if my mind is busy and someone calls out my name, I jump. The volume is generally not a factor, usually. It also can cause me to trip over. However, whenever this happens, it’s usually delayed by around a second.
My theory on this is that my mind is busy, it hears an interruption, and whenever my mind gets hit with it, it gives a brief sensory overwhelming (possibly “snapped into reality”) causing me to be startled, hence a delay.
Growing up, peers have accused me of faking this behaviour for attention or whatever due to the delay. Has anybody else had the same experience?
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Lol yes. When someone startles me by being somewhere unexpected I notice them, I go back to what I was doing and then yelp/jump/etc when my brain catches up. It’s awkward as fuck.
