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kori chamberlain
@korichamberlain
Joined over 4 years agoI came across this concept back in 2016, and was like "Hey, that's me." This site looks like an interesting way to connect with similar folks.
@korichamberlain
Joined over 4 years agoI came across this concept back in 2016, and was like "Hey, that's me." This site looks like an interesting way to connect with similar folks.
I dream visually. It's odd to recall a dream, know that it was visual, but not actually be able to remember the images. I actually can get kind of addicted to dreaming because the mental visuals are such a treat. I snooze an alarm over and over for hours, staying in that vivid bit of dreaming just before you wake up. I always feel awful afterwards, though. Super groggy.
Yes! This, exactly.
I suspected the differences in thinking mechanisms as a teenager , since most of the language we use to describe memories uses visual words. I figured most people were actually seeing things, otherwise the language we used and attempts at guiding people to see things in their mind (such as in books and meditation exercises) wouldn't make any sense. I discussed it with someone in the past, where I don't see anything when I close my eyes and my daydreams are mostly conversational/verbal, while they could create whole worlds in their brain. Then I read an article in 2015 or 2016 about research in the area and was like "Hey, that's me." Personally, I have zero mental imagery. If I struggle really hard, I can conjure up a blurry, gray, image of a very small area. Still dream in full color images, though. However, I actually have pretty good spacial reasoning and recall. I would describe it like that green wire frame layout on a black background for old computer graphics. I can imagine things existing in three dementional space, even if I can't see the details. And I am awesome at those "rotate a shape" exercises, as well as assembling things and fixing stuff around the house.
I've always preferred books written in the first person, but I only recently figured out why. First person perspective usually takes place in the characters mind, focusing more on their own thoughts and experiences, rather then the world as a whole. A recommendation: I found Octavia Butler's books easy to get into since her voice seems similar to my own (her characters think and speak in a way that's similar to my own thought patterns), and her books are usually (if not all) 1st person.