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  • 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.





  • Money or currency is a way to represent value

    It is a medium of exchange

    Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.

    So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.

    It facilitates trade

    Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question



  • You can’t cheat sound placement

    If you want the T-rex to roar to the back left of you and then run around and roar to the very right of you. You need two speakers placed exactly in those spots.

    With just a sound bar under the TV the roar is always going to be in front of you

    Does a sound bar ruin the Jurassic Park movie? Of course not.

    But 7.1 gives you front middle, front left, front right, middle left, middle right, back right, and back left.

    12.1 goes a step further with ceiling speakers for each speaker creating more atmosphere

    If you want good full sound then a sound bar is fine. And most people would be really happy with that.

    But if you want directional surround sound you have to place speakers in locations where the noise needs to come from. No other way around that.



  • I have been on this planet for a while and I have only seen the night sky like the last picture driving through Texas in the middle of nowhere.

    Power going out in a city isn’t enough to stop the light population from surrounding areas. It would have to be the only city around for miles and it would have to be a full power loss.

    I would say most people have never came close to seeing an uncountable amount of stars in the sky.

    I live in a medium sized city that is 30 minutes from a large city. I can count like a dozen stars in the sky. If we lose power the sky doesn’t magically change to look like it was in Texas. Honestly, I don’t remember it changing at all.


  • The idea was as she got older he wouldn’t date younger than her current age. Weird and creepy but not the weird and creepy way you think.

    “In 3 years when you’re 20 I won’t be dating an 18-year-old.”

    This was in 2006

    Trump married Melenia in 2005

    So imagine saying this after being married to your wife for a year.

    Here’s another quote of him saying he has no age limit only to back track and then “weaved” to bring up another senator’s folly to divert attention on what he almost just let get confirmed.

    Things got a little weird after co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump if he had “an age limit.”

    Trump fumbled a bit at the response.

    “If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age li—” Trump said, while Quivers asked him “the upper bracket” of his limit.




  • I get that

    I wouldn’t buy diamonds or gold hoping they increase in price just as much as I wouldn’t buy bitcoin to do the same.

    If you offered me 1USD in Gold, Diamond, or Bitcoin.

    I would take the gold. It has the most intrinsic value.

    The probably that gold hits 0USD is less than bitcoin hitting 0USD.

    The only reason you’d take bitcoin is if you think that it has a higher ceiling. Intrinsic value is the floor. But that is gambling



  • Gold and diamonds have intrinsic value

    Gold is needed for computer parts, and diamonds are used for cutting

    They are more than just shiny

    Their value will “never” hit 0 (Bitcoin would be worthless without gold for computers)

    Yes, we could find substitutes in the future, but for the substances to not be useful somehow is so low and would have to be an apocalyptic scenario. And in an apocalypse, gold could even be worth more.


  • Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid.[2] The term “canola” denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.[3][4]

    Brassica napus subsp. napus is the proper name. Everything else is slang and not worth arguing about.

    We call it Sunflower Oil

    We call it Rapeseed Oil

    Not Rape Seed Oil