Normal to feel intense pain from cornstarch or dry sand?

So if I rub cornstarch between my fingers or walk on very dry sand, the squeaking sound and vibration from doing so causes intense pain and an electric shock sort of feeling inside my head. It is almost cripplingly irritating, I cannot think at all when the feeling is present.

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    S.C.B.E, scratch chalk board effect.

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    • LornaMae

      Yeah, I get that with dry markers on paper. Instant bad kind of goosebumps!

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        Sand paper on the brains.

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    • Grunewald

      Yes.

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  • RoseIsabella

    I would like this post better if it had a poll.

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  • Boojum

    There's something about high-frequency sounds that makes many people feel very uncomfortable.

    The sound of styrofoam packing rubbing together used to give me that electric shock sensation you describe when I was young, but not so much anymore. I'm not sure if I've just come to terms with it, or if ageing means that my ability to hear high-frequencies has decreased, so I just don't hear it the same way.

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    • Grunewald

      Aaargh just imagining that sound makes me feel gross.

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  • KholatKhult

    Whenever I’m trying to pull something with my teeth and it slides the feeling fucks me up for a solid 10 minutes.

    Especially if it’s a satin or ribbed ribbon material that makes the “Zippp” or squeaky sound

    I understand the “triggering” from the sensation or sound, but the intense pain doesn’t sound normal. Maybe a mental-physical discomfort?

    I’m an amputee so I get phantom limb pain which is that mental-physical pain you might be describing

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