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NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

tfw u so scared of Jackie Chan that u levitate out of a window when he point his gun @ u

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prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Sagebrush posted:

here's a cool article about a syndrome, which apparently affects up to 2% of the population, where a person is unable to create a visual mental "picture" of a concept. you ask them to picture a sunny beach and they'll be able to tell you it has sand, there are waves, it's hot, the tides go in and out, etc. but they don't see a scene.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_467790_en.html

weiiiiird

does it count if you imagine a beach you were at, or one you saw in a picture?

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:26

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

NoneMoreNegative posted:

tfw u so scared of Jackie Chan that u levitate out of a window when he point his gun @ u

the recoil on that pistol must be insane

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:26

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots'll make you levitate

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:27

muckswirler: Oct 22, 2008

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots'll make you levitate

Deep cut golf clap.

And the aphantasia thing, picture a road sign in your head. If you can 'see' the font and know what number is on it you probably don't have it.

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d64: Jan 15, 2003

i didn't see any circles at first, then thought "ok maybe this is one of those magic eye kind of things", let my eyes drift and yep, as soon as i did that the circles were there. weird part is that after that, i can see the circles very easily even when looking at it in a normal way, can't really unsee them even

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:37

oh no blimp issue: Feb 23, 2011

Sagebrush posted:

here's a cool article about a syndrome, which apparently affects up to 2% of the population, where a person is unable to create a visual mental "picture" of a concept. you ask them to picture a sunny beach and they'll be able to tell you it has sand, there are waves, it's hot, the tides go in and out, etc. but they don't see a scene.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_467790_en.html

weiiiiird

how vivid would you describe the picture in your head as being? because id say that i can see pictures but i wouldn't call them fully formed

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:49

Grassy Knowles: Apr 4, 2003; "The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Sagebrush posted:

here's a cool article about a syndrome, which apparently affects up to 2% of the population, where a person is unable to create a visual mental "picture" of a concept. you ask them to picture a sunny beach and they'll be able to tell you it has sand, there are waves, it's hot, the tides go in and out, etc. but they don't see a scene.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_467790_en.html

weiiiiird

Improbable Lobster posted:

i have that

Same. I try to take photos to make up for it.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:59

George: Nov 27, 2004; No love for your made-up things.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Same. I try to take photos to make up for it.

make sure you spell out his whole last name this time

# ? Nov 24, 2017 01:11

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

prefect posted:

does it count if you imagine a beach you were at, or one you saw in a picture?

if you can "look around" the scene and talk about what you're "seeing" inside your head -- even if some of the details aren't super clear -- then you don't have aphantasia.

at least that's my best guess. i can't describe what improbable lobster's experience is any more than he can describe mine, i'm sure.

oh no blimp issue posted:

how vivid would you describe the picture in your head as being? because id say that i can see pictures but i wouldn't call them fully formed

it varies. i think it's a spectrum, where some people have aphantasia and can't do it at all, and some people have hyper-real experiences like looking at a photo, and most people are somewhere in between.

like, if you ask me to picture a stop sign, i can easily do that. i can walk around it in my head and see the galvanization on the post, the cracked pavement at the bottom, the grass sticking out of the cracks, the hexagonal pattern of reflectors in the word STOP, the dented corner, the bullet hole, the lizard stuck to the back. i can press my hand against it and see the pattern of hand oils left on the shiny surface.

but note that that's all imaginary. i can't do that with memories -- at least not reliably. some people can recall going out to dinner with their husband and tell you the price of everything on the menu, as if they're looking at a photograph. i can see whatever infinite detail i want in the stop sign i'm imagining, but i couldn't tell you any of that about the specific one at the end of my street. i can still "see" that particular sign -- just that when i try to see the details they either kind of go gray and slip away, or are replaced by something that i'm pretty sure i'm imagining, like the bullet hole.

brains

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

imagining things with my idiot brain is like reading descriptions in a book, there's just no visual component to my thoughts or memories or imagination at all.

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

It's funny because reading descriptions in a book to me is fairly meaningless until I create a mental image of what's going on

It bugs me a lot when a book I've read is adapted into a movie and the movie doesn't look like what it does in my head

# ? Nov 24, 2017 01:36

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Sagebrush posted:

It's funny because reading descriptions in a book to me is fairly meaningless until I create a mental image of what's going on

It bugs me a lot when a book I've read is adapted into a movie and the movie doesn't look like what it does in my head

never been a problem for me, which proves that i am the next stage in human evolution

# ? Nov 24, 2017 01:37

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

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Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

I must be mostly-aphasic. I can visualize scenes if I try and have some visual memories that I can bring to my mind�s eye, but in general day-to-day life my thoughts have basically no visual component. My memories are almost all propositional, not experiential.

e: oops, not aphasic. Thanks sagebrush!

Achmed Jones fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Nov 24, 2017

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Mad Wack: Mar 27, 2008; "The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Achmed Jones posted:

I must be mostly-aphasic. I can visualize scenes if I try and have some visual memories that I can bring to my mind�s eye, but in general day-to-day life my thoughts have basically no visual component. My memories are almost all propositional, not experiential.

yeah my brain works like this too

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Achmed Jones posted:

I must be mostly-aphasic

aphasia is being unable to speak or understand spoken language

you are aphantastic person

# ? Nov 24, 2017 01:52

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

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Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

my mom has aphantasia but luckily I don't. i can also see my memories visually down to everything except text which is always been annoying. i can however feel textures from memories with my fingers

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

SO DEMANDING posted:

we have wormsign the likes of which even GOD has never seen *faaaaaarrrrrttttttt*

*hears bathroom fan turn on from living room*

usil has summoned a big one

# ? Nov 24, 2017 02:41

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

my memories and imagination are so vivid I can remember smells and recognize places based on how it smells

my dreams can be hard to differentiate from reality and I often wake up wondering if that was a memory or a dream

# ? Nov 24, 2017 02:49

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

Improbable Lobster posted:

never been a problem for me, which proves that i am the next stage in human evolution

hmmm *making weighing hand motion* next stage of evolution? or having a spank bank?

hrmmm

# ? Nov 24, 2017 02:58

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

my memories and imagination are so vivid I can remember smells and recognize places based on how it smells

my dreams can be hard to differentiate from reality and I often wake up wondering if that was a memory or a dream

well since tori is probe for a week i guess i have to ask how does the dog u murdred smell

# ? Nov 24, 2017 02:58

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

look i take no inherent joy in posting this but it is my honor bound duty

# ? Nov 24, 2017 03:02

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Sagebrush posted:

sucks to be you!

but seriously it's kinda fascinating that that condition exists, since it's so fundamental to how my brain works (like, i doubt i could be a designer if i couldn't come up with a visual image of an idea in my head) but clearly causes no major problems for people who have it

there's a similar condition that affects a similar number of people where they can't hear music. like they can hear it, but just as random noises like a casino floor or a loud cafeteria or whatever. no ability to distinguish the patterns and sequences that we call music. they also can't hum a tune or tell you which of two notes played is higher or lower

reminds me of some recent studies examining the musical tastes of psychopaths

apparently they strongly prefer rap and marching band music at weirdly higher rates but i think they�re still ongoing or expanding their testing pool or something

also pop psych etc etc

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