Most villages have standard tests that can help determine if one has a rare ability such as sensing. Of course they aren't always perfect, but it still might be useful to try one out. Alternatively, you could look into your family's history, and see if anyone else has mentioned feeling something similar.
Part of the purpose of a doctor is to help you by asking questions you might not have considered before. We try to help take vague feelings - such as shortness of breath, or feelings of dislocation - and turn them into concrete hypothesis. The information you've offered is quite interesting already!
So, lets divide that non-specific information down. What kinds of people generally trigger the drowning feeling? Do they have anything in common? Men, women, young, old, those from outside or inside your village? Are they from a specific clan or heritage? It might not be something obvious - perhaps a certain scent or sound is triggering the feeling. Could they be wearing bells or have all eaten at a certain restaurant? I'm sure if you thought, you could come up with similar questions that could help us suss out the cause of the feeling. Using your answers, you then can proceed to coming up with a profile for those who trigger the drowning feeling.
You could even conduct a semi-experiment. If there is someone you are familiar with that causes this feeling, ask them to participate with someone you know never triggers it. Ideally, if you have a team, work with them to set the experiment up. Not knowing the specifics of your village, I cannot presume your structure, but if you have a team, and if you know one of these 'catalysts' well enough to ask their help, you could use the visit of a diplomatic group or trade caravan to test your hypothesis. Find an outsider who triggers the response, then find out what they have in common with your own catalyst and what they do not have in common with your 'normal'. Then repeat as necessary, refining your definition of catalyst or expanding it to include different categories of catalyst.
I would be very interested in the results you have. Even if you are not a sensor-type, you appear to be picking something up, and now I am equally curious as to what it is.
[ooc: Good job, Karin, you gave Kabu a science puzzle, and now he's going to bother you until you figure it out.]
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Part of the purpose of a doctor is to help you by asking questions you might not have considered before. We try to help take vague feelings - such as shortness of breath, or feelings of dislocation - and turn them into concrete hypothesis. The information you've offered is quite interesting already!
So, lets divide that non-specific information down. What kinds of people generally trigger the drowning feeling? Do they have anything in common? Men, women, young, old, those from outside or inside your village? Are they from a specific clan or heritage? It might not be something obvious - perhaps a certain scent or sound is triggering the feeling. Could they be wearing bells or have all eaten at a certain restaurant? I'm sure if you thought, you could come up with similar questions that could help us suss out the cause of the feeling. Using your answers, you then can proceed to coming up with a profile for those who trigger the drowning feeling.
You could even conduct a semi-experiment. If there is someone you are familiar with that causes this feeling, ask them to participate with someone you know never triggers it. Ideally, if you have a team, work with them to set the experiment up. Not knowing the specifics of your village, I cannot presume your structure, but if you have a team, and if you know one of these 'catalysts' well enough to ask their help, you could use the visit of a diplomatic group or trade caravan to test your hypothesis. Find an outsider who triggers the response, then find out what they have in common with your own catalyst and what they do not have in common with your 'normal'. Then repeat as necessary, refining your definition of catalyst or expanding it to include different categories of catalyst.
I would be very interested in the results you have. Even if you are not a sensor-type, you appear to be picking something up, and now I am equally curious as to what it is.
[ooc: Good job, Karin, you gave Kabu a science puzzle, and now he's going to bother you until you figure it out.]