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Mine is that at my age (barely made it into Gen Z on the old end) I just found out today that a Bo Weevil is an insect (beetle) and not some kind of mole or similar rodent.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought everyone had an internal monologue, now I'm seeing that's not the case, I'm still processing it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Speaking of brains, my girlfriend claims that when she imagines something in her head, she sees a detailed image in front of her, as real as real life. Meanwhile thoughts in my head are just concepts and words. I mean I can imagine what something looks like, but it's an abstract of the basic concept of the thing, not a detailed image in my mind. It takes a strong psychedelic for me to be able to picture something in my head with detail, but according to her apparently I'm the weird one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

My partner has Aphantasia. Brains are strange! She cannot visualize in her mind which makes it very challenging to do certain tasks and many things she does are based on muscle memory. Also interestingly when a song gets stuck in her head it is like she is making all of the sounds with her inner voice. For me, I can hear the song like there is a recording playing in my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think I have that because I recall music the same way. Usually it's just the chorus or a verse playing on loop, though, and the actual song never sounds exactly how I remember it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

There are varying levels of Aphantasia, for my partner it is complete but for you if may only be partial. The wiki page I linked discussed it a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Ever still hear the recording even when you are singing along? It sounds so good in my head but I'm a terrible singer. I would threaten my son with singing when he was misbehaving.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can’t picture anything in your mind’s eye? It’s not seeing for real but imagining you are looking at something. Like a memory. When you say abstract of the thing you just think of the words associated with it or along those lines?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

No I can picture things in my head, just not as a vivid image. Images in my mind are vague and detail-less. Like dreams. Mostly I remember the emotions associated with the memory, not what my surroundings looked like at the time.

FWIW I have ADHD, so asking me to remember anything with any sort of detail is already a challenge enough as-is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

If you'd ask me to imagine a tea cup with a green jade color in front of me, I'd imagine a cup and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You mean like imagining a voice speak out your thoughts? Thoughts are so much faster than speech, I feel like having to speak out all your thoughts would slow things down significantly.

The best tip I learned about reading faster is to stop narrating the words in your head, which puts a hard limit on your reading speed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Bro I can't read if I don't read it in my head lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Wait, people narrate the words in their head? That must be insanely slow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I like the reading tip! I think not many people are aware of it.

My thoughts use meaning, instead a specific words.

The whole interpreting my thoughts as natural language often takes longer than coming up with the tought itself.

This results in:

  1. I often use the intersection of the languages I, and the people I speak with know.
  2. When it's a topic I'm knowledgeable about, I often talk too fast and people find it hard to follow me.
  3. I draw many associations and comprehending the larger picture is easy. Yet I often miss the point in the smaller picture.
[–] clay_pidgin 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If you can't tell, then you don't have one.