Sensory Overload

My eyes literally ache and my brain throbs when I see extreme clutter. Things like disheveled placement of items in a cramped thrift shop, walls of shelving bursting with various sizes and textures of bindings in a dusty used book store, aisles of unlimited cereal options in a grocery store, or even tight placement of furniture arrangements decorating a retail showroom cause me immense mental and sensory overload.

My unsound logic for this brutal reaction is simply the electrical chaos constantly brewing in my brain. It can only process so much information. Too many piles stacked, too many colors displayed, too many variations in one tiny space hinder my ability to rapidly comprehend anything.

In that light, emotional clutter produces the same effect. Too much stress or too many dilemmas requiring immediate solutions bring my cognition to a screeching halt.

Just thinking about it makes my brain hurt...