Sensory overload

[31] Most often the quickest way to ease sensory overload symptoms is to remove oneself from the situation.

Deep pressure against the skin combined with proprioceptive input that stimulates the receptors in the joints and ligaments often calms the nervous system.

It is important in situations of sensory overload to calm oneself and return to a normal level.

[6] There are three different methods to address sensory overload: avoidance, setting limits, and meditation.

To prevent sensory overload, it is important to rest before big events and focus one's attention and energy on one thing at a time.

An optimal outcome for policy makers to influence advertisers to try is to present information through a TV commercial stating simple facts about a product and then encourage the audience to check out their website for more details.

[citation needed] Consumers today are forced to learn to cope with overloading and an abundance of information,[32] through the radio, billboards, television, newspapers and much more.

Sociologist Georg Simmel contributed to the description of sensory overload in his 1903 essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life."

Simmel describes an urban landscape of constant sensory stimuli against which the city-dweller must create a barrier in order to remain sane.

For Simmel, the sensory overload of modern urban life depletes the body's reservoirs of energy, leading, among other things, to a jaded or blasé [blasiert] mentality and a calculating, instrumentalizing approach to others.

Case histories Not many studies have been done on sensory overload, but one example of a sensory overload study was reported by Lipowski (1975)[35] as part of his research review on the topic that discussed the work done by Japanese researchers at Tohoku University.

The Tohoku researchers exposed their subjects to intense visual and auditory stimuli presented randomly in a condition of confinement ranging in duration from three to five hours.