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Sometimes I depersonalize and can barely taste, smell, or feel pain
What does pain taste like?
Takis?
Oh my god, I just realized that my taki addiction was the gateway to the masochist lifestyle.
Can ypu normally taste pain?
I do this, I blame the dentist.
Here's a disturbing story involving pain and the dentist:
I went to some quack dentist when I was a teenager to get my wisdom teeth extracted. Novocaine just does not work very well on me, which I tell dentists every time and they just don't listen.
So I felt a shitload of pain when he crushed my tooth to extract it, but I was also on nitrous, so I basically couldn't move.
Many years later, when I was in my late 30s or early 40s, I was having intense pain in the back of my jaw. I thought one of the molars had gone bad and I needed a root canal or something. I made an appointment for an orthodontist, but he couldn't get me in for a few days. And then a day before I got to to the orthodontist, I felt something in my cheek near the back of my jaw and the pain was gone. I pulled it out: it was a sliver of tooth he missed when he crushed it that had finally worked its way out.
I haven't thought of either of those things in a long time. Believe it or not, I don't think what happened at that dentist had any lasting trauma. It's not something I ever dwell on.
Is this similar to out of body experiences? I'll feel far away from myself but on the inside, if that makes sense.