• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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    19 days ago

    I have a friend at work who openly confessed to not being able to mentally create images when discussing why he wasn’t into reading books.

    I was like “Wow, I can’t really imagine your reality for myself, that sounds strange.”

    he said, “Now you’re getting it, as I can’t imagine it, either.”

    Video games and film though? 1000X more entertaining for him via his testimony. He can’t conjure those images so seeing someone else’s interpretation is often thrilling.

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      19 days ago

      I can’t really do that either and I read books.

      I also do have an inner monologue which might be a part of it.

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          19 days ago

          Yes, it’s quite wild but I guess I can’t really say that as someone without the ability to imagine things.

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          Yeah! I don’t think I do in the sense some people do, in the sense that some people describe having a narrator or something like that. If I am to think in words or sentences it takes a little more effort and happens when I’m thinking about talking to someone or putting things into words, whereas my passive thinking is generally wordless, and more conceptual/spacial/tactile.

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      19 days ago

      I often find myself getting distracted from whatever I’m watching because my brain takes over and starts making up alternative scenarios.

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        18 days ago

        I’ve noticed my brain lately has been doing this thing where I’m watching something cool and it goes, “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if <exact thing I’m watching>?”

        Well, yeah, but why are you activating the “I have a cool variant idea related to this” pathways and distracting me instead of just watching how this one plays out?

        Edit: corrected “largely” to “lately”