Huh. A 5 for me. You all literally *see* things?
My dreams have a visual component and on rare occasions when I find myself in between dreaming and waking I see amazingly complex constantly shifting fractals, over which I have no control. I just presumed that this was only a dreaming thing.
so do you all have to close your eyes to see things or are you always just seeing stuff that you think about?
This is me
This is my main take away. I’m perfectly fine with my way of thinking/visualizing. It’s cool other people do it differently.
Ok let’s do this one: do you all literally hear thoughts in your ears, the way some are telling me they see thoughts with their eyes? I think in complex sentences, often full paragraphs; it’s talking w/o the sound but not an actual auditory experience.
I can think about what any voice or song sounds like with a high degree of detail and fidelity but it’s not actually audio I hear with my ears.
What this is making clear is that we all need to talk a LOT more about HOW we think.
Which usually means the reasons we think we do, but no. Literally, HOW do you think?
Amazing.
Which usually means the reasons we think we do, but no. Literally, HOW do you think?
Amazing.
To be clear, this is all very interesting and surprising, but I don't find it a bit disturbing. I think it's awesome.
It's great, actually. It's like finding out I'm on a superhero team of the mind with all of you.
I'm Captain Abstraction. Meet my sidekick, Platonic Ideal.
It's great, actually. It's like finding out I'm on a superhero team of the mind with all of you.
I'm Captain Abstraction. Meet my sidekick, Platonic Ideal.
I like HOW I think, a lot. I don't really want to hear or see things when I think. But I do think it might help me understand how my brain does things that baffle other people, and how other people's brains do things that baffle me.
My dreams are usually full audio and video, so I know the brain CAN do this.
I just DON'T do it when I'm awake.
I just DON'T do it when I'm awake.
Actually my memorization skills are strong. I've got long passages of several dozen pages each memorized, for example.
I set the words to a syncopation to assist the memorization. I just don't literally hear anything. I'd find that terribly distracting.
I set the words to a syncopation to assist the memorization. I just don't literally hear anything. I'd find that terribly distracting.
