Plus ones

I have 10 friends I want to invite, they have 10 friends.

40 guests.

I’m 1 of 4 children. That’s 8 guests. If they were the same. 16 guests.

Over half way to 100 in just friends and immidiate family.

I have a dozen cousins from both sides. 24 guests. If they did, 24 guests.

Friends, immidiate family, and cousins. 100+

I have 3 best friends and at least 7 friends that have/will/would invite me to their weddings.

It adds up quick when you double then double again.

I second Citizen Eco-Drive

I have a ton of watches and I wear my Citizen Eco-Drive Primo Stingray 620 pretty much everyday.

Definitely would suggest a solar or motion powered watch. Batteries are a pain.

When I see something visual

I wouldn’t think letters, sounds, or words. I’d just get ideas that I can use my internal voice to consider if I wanted to think about it in words.

I believe I have visual dreams when I have them which isn’t often. They feel extremely real when I have them. I feel like I know the details without feeling like I made a list of details to remember, it’s like I remember from seeing it.

Yeah you lost me

Like you get words popping up in your head when you look at a visual stimulus and you can’t tell if the word are actually written there?

I find myself defaulting back to playing the last catchy song I heard if I choose to hum or whistle or just decide to play something in my head. I’d say it’s like leaving a cassette in the player, I can switch it out if I think about it, but if I just play “something” there will be a default tape in the player.

Hmm that’s really interesting. In a way, your mind can create images then because otherwise you wouldn’t see them. You just cannot consciously produce an image?

“Seldom anything visual”

Like you’d think you saw a black cat out of the corner of your eye and then you look and nothing is there? Or you see the black cat actually sitting there and know it’s not real?

I understand your inner voice it seems pretty much like mine.

Do you get earworms? Or is your inner voice completely voluntary?

Yeah I’m the same way. Always wondered how people were able to give such detailed information to police sketch artists.

Like I could work with one but at best it would be them drawing something close and me going “ehh this part and this part isn’t right” if I got a really good look at the person.

Do you get earworms?

I feel in a way I’d have to practice their voice in my head like I was trying to impersonate them vocally, just my mind could make any sound. But I myself couldn’t talk in a New York accent because I don’t understand what all to change and when. If I heard a New Yorker say a sentence I could repeat it back in my head the same way

Trouble as in poor quality or too many mental images?

You feel your mood shift the most with new mental images?

What kind of sound hallucinations?

Like people or yourself talking to you?

Does it sound like you’re hearing it from your ears?

People can project their mind’s eye image into reality. It’s most likely schizophrenic people can’t control it and would project things they didn’t know they were doing. We know it’s not there and it’s definitely in their mind but they don’t realize that they are conjuring it.

Same with internal monologe.

You have inner speech? I can talk to myself. But someone with an internal monologue they are not talking to themselves like me. Their brain is talking to them, they do not consciously pick each word.

Do you have aphantasia?

I feel like people with aphantasia are less likely to be bipolar because we do not play emotional memories with images.

From my understanding people can change their moods thinking of a beach? Like “Imagine yourself on a beach” and it could make a non-aphant more relaxed and calm?

I feel like my emotions are pure in the moment. Yes I could recall an event that gave me an emotion but it’s nothing like experiencing it in the moment.

I’m not sure.

I can not smell things without actually smelling them. Same with taste.

I can imagine my hand rubbing on different grit sandpaper and know how they would feel differently but I don’t “feel” it.

I can play songs in my head with sounds that are like the actual sounds but it’s similar to humming or whistling in my head. It’s not like I hit play and just listen. I don’t get earworms.

As someone with aphantasia and no internal monologe it makes sense to me.

So many people tell me their brains just send them images and monologe without them “thinking” it themselves first. Like to me they are reacting to what their brain is telling them. And that’s what is required to be schizophrenic.

The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.

I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”

They get turned into red light when going into pokeball. They get stored as red light. No need for tubes to store ball.

Since the masterball exists that must mean you keep the masterball on you always and just pull the pokemon out with any connected PC.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand hypnosis.

I don’t really dream that much. I normally fall asleep and then just wake up. I’ve had dreams before and I can’t say that I saw images or not. I want to say that I did see images because I would describe them as being very vivid and real like almost like I was experiencing it rather than just thinking. But when I wake up I cannot recall any of the images but know how the things in the dream looked and would recall them like I saw something in the real world.

But if my muscles are relaxed how is that supposed to put my brain in a relaxed state?

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

It’s not a coincidence that the word image is in the word imagination. Most people image to imagine.

We have learned you don’t need to image to imagine. If you would have asked me awhile ago if I saw images in my head I would have said yes because I can hold details of an image in my head and “see” it. It’s like I’m imagining an image to imagine.

Just like I can imagine what would happen if you placed a ball at the top of a hill and let go. I don’t need to see images or a video to “imagine” the ball is going to roll down the hill.

Phantasia is a word used by Aristotle to describe “mental images”. What is thought of as “imagining”. He described it as a mind’s eye.

Imagining is the term that is wrongly named. It could be used for only processing thinking with images but like you said you “imagine”. I have aphantasia and I’m just “thinking” about the ball and it rolling down the hill, not imaging it doing it in my head.

I have aphantasia.

Personally I never thought being hypnotized was possible for me

When someone says “Imagine an apple” I think of the concept or idea of an apple. I would need them or me to give more details about what this imaginary apple has. Green/red, leaf/no leaf, connected to tree or not.

The more details I add the more I have to think about it to hold all the details together.

Example, I know my house very well. I can tell you every detail I remember about my house. But if you told me to imagine your house and just threw details at me I wouldn’t be able to remember the majority of them. If I physically walked through your house I could remember a ton of details.

Feel free to ask any questions!

As an aphant I cannot begin to imagine salivating by thinking of biting a lemon.

I believe some aphants can have smell and taste memories since it only has to do with a lack of visual imagine. Just like some cannot hear inner speech.

I cannot say it’s impossible but I’ve never believed in hypnotizism.

These are the EVA birkenstock sandals

They ended up ripping through and not really usable anymore because the whole front flops.

Or just roll them around in a bowl

Shaking is not required