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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Has nobody ever talked dirty to you? Words can be very powerful, even recorded ones.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have aphantasia. I'm not blind and could watch porn but I'd much rather just talk it out in my mind lol. I'm imagining my experience is probably similar to that of blind people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Hey, that's rad. I also have aphantasia, and found out about it from a post on Lemmy, of all places. Legitimately thought I was being pranked until I started asking some real life friends about their mental images. It was like being told that actually, the TV I think I'm watching is just a radio broadcast, and everyone else's is much cooler.

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

Out of curiosity, what are dreams like for you? Is that also just a stream of sounds without images?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As far as I can tell, I have visual dreams. At least what I remember of them. I've also noticed having internal visual imagery on certain drugs. Mainly hallucinogens, but also on phenobarbital which is used for alcohol withdrawal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yes. Some folks find audio just as or even more erotic than video. There's a fairly large and active subreddit for this, (gonewildaudio). Probably more than one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

their hand usually.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Humans have other senses besides sight you know? Taste, touch, smell and sound are all heavily involved in sex. And if you can sense them, you can imagine them. Do you need to see your partner to get aroused?

(Also, a majority of blind people have not always been blind, so I imagine many of them still also imagine what someone looks like)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Never had sex in the dark?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sex starts in the brain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ooh! If you haven't listened to something you're both into from a blind person... It's amazing! Turn the damn lights off and listen!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I imagine the answer to this depends greatly on when a person became blind. I assume you're asking about people blind since birth, but that's not all blind people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wonder if they ever did the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty series as audiobooks, because that would probably get you where you want to go. 😆

Edit: They did, because of course they did. From Wikipedia:

In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched) as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was read by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.[2] A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.[3]

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago