• NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?

    In what plane should I rotate it?

    Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?

    If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?

    Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?

    I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!

  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
    0·
    4 months ago

    Traitorous people want to make you believe for some reason that YOU CAN do things WITHOUT your LOCAL CORPORATION knowing. TO USE such DANGEROUS things as IMAGINATION is ANTI AMERICAN, and is the attempt of ILLEGAL ALIENS to weaken the AMERICAN ECONOMY which is doing great, best it has ever been, yesterday a big economy, strong economy; beautiful economy, came down to me, tears down its eyes, thanking me, saying mister President, thank you so much for making me beautiful again, and I said of course I did, after SLOW POWEL got out, I was able to lower interest rates, devalue the dollar and FORCE AMERICAN FACTORIES back so that great products like most AMERICAN products can really SUCEED and BRING the AMERICAN DREAM BACK contrary to CHINA which is faltering, have you seen how mismanaged their real estate sector is, I could’ve done much better, cause I am a GENIUS and clearly I am amazing, did you see how I ACED MULTIPLE COGNITIVE TESTS, they asked me list these animals, and I said, it’s obvious, woman man person camera TV and the doctor, she speaking of XI, he’s an amazing leader who is making China great and TOLD ME that I PREVENTED AMERICAN DECLINE AND AM NOW ON ROUTE TO A GOLDEN AGE like my BALLROOM which is GOLDEN and TACTICAL, and SAFE just like our stock market IT IS RISING AND BETTER THAN EVER. THANK YOU FOR YOU ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, PRESIDENT DONALD JOHNATHAN TRUMP

    Gotta be honest, sleep deprivation really helps with these

      • pseudo@jlai.lu
        0·
        4 months ago

        Well planning all this and executing it you won’t have time to be bored.

      • user_name@lemmy.world
        0·
        4 months ago

        Not OP but also have aphantasia.

        I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.

        • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
          0·
          4 months ago

          Yeah took me 36 years.

          It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.

          Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?

          Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.

          • user_name@lemmy.world
            0·
            4 months ago

            Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”

            • Matty_r@programming.dev
              0·
              4 months ago

              For you and @Sludgeyy@lemmy.world , do you find it affect your memory/recall at all? Especially for reading something, do you need to read aloud? You dont need to answer by the way, I have my suspicions that someone I know might have it but they aren’t aware.

              • user_name@lemmy.world
                0·
                4 months ago

                I would say I generally have an excellent memory with better recall for what is read vs what is said. Not that helps you, but I’m a merely anecdotal case.

                Maybe more than recall ask them when they read fiction if they pictures the characters orbjust kind of glaze over during prolong descriptive sections. Do they complain about movie casting? I never picture characters so even if I think a performance is bad, I’m never mad that the actor doesn’t look like how I imagined them.

                • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
                  0·
                  4 months ago

                  I’ll never forget trying to read Redwall as a child and trying to remember what character was what animal. I had to write down a cheat sheet.

              • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
                0·
                4 months ago

                Memory or recall of facts. No.

                Memory or recall of life experiences. Yes.

                From my understanding people can play a “movie” of something like their last birthday party. See who was there, what they were wearing, etc.

                Unless I make note of something I’m not going to remember it. I can “subconsciously” make a note of something and recall it but I cannot re

                But other than a list of facts I have about my last birthday party, I cannot recall or experience it again.

                As for reading. There’s no difference between me reading a biology textbook or a romance novel. I read, soak up knowledge, critically think, and remember.

                I have to subvocalize to read. I’m curious on why you assumed we had to read outloud. I don’t know how other aphants read.

                Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      4 months ago

      I’m able to do it if I’m half asleep. Problem is i get so excited at my ability to create anything I want in amazing detail that I wake back up

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      0·
      4 months ago

      100% of theoretical physicists would agree that cows are spheres. You could do mental math in which you calculate changes to the cardinality of the distributed mass.

      It should look something like this: 0⁰

      Fuck, it’s the police!

    • getFrog@piefed.socialEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      I can’t even hear cows in my head.

      I’m curious about that part. Does that mean you also don’t get that weird thing where you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep? Or are dreams/half-asleep hallucinations not affected by aphantasia?

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
        0·
        4 months ago

        you hear like, people chattering/ music/ something falling down just before you fall asleep?

        What the hell are you on about??

        • getFrog@piefed.socialEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          … I think so? Never questioned it honestly, guess I’ll have to do some research now haha

          edit: this website says they’re fiiiiine, although the auditory ones are rarer than visual and somatic ones. Somewhat related to Narcolepsy though, so I guess that’s another thing to mention when I get evaluated for that haha (getting on adhd meds somewhat fixed my daytime eepyness so I’ve been procrastinating on getting it checked out)

      • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
        0·
        4 months ago

        Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.

        I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
          0·
          4 months ago

          Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?

          I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.

    • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Lol if they had said that you can count your fingers then we’d have someone in here without arms saying how ableist the tweet was