I taught myself to juggle fire.
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I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.
That’s really awesome, that is one of the main goals of most meditation techniques! Sometimes I‘d really like to do that as well.
Have you actively worked on this or were you just able to do this?
Is it difficult to „turn your thoughts back on“?
Some people can't turn off their inner monologue?
To me it's as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I'm misunderstanding you.
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.
But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I'm like, what, you guys can't just turn it on or off? I've concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.
If I try to stop thinking I just ended up thinking "stopthinkingstopthinking shutupshutupshutup"
Yeah, for some (like me) it’s almost impossible.
But then, there are also people that do not have any inner monologue at all…
I can give up almost anything save for breathing, eating, and my dogs.
Save them for lunch later, smort
I have actually been held at gunpoint many times in a dictatorship, by the leftists dictator forces.
I have actually gone through famine for years caused by leftists, and survived to tell the tale.
I also have survived a leftist dictatorship and escaped successfully from one
Weird flex but okay
Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.
Sometimes I'll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone's clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What's actually happening is they're breathing my spores, and they love it.
wtf 😅 eww?
You sound like some kind of Anime villain
What's actually happening is they're breathing my spores, and they love it
What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?
Oh. Lol. Weird...
Haha, it's so weird that the only people that have caught on that are my sneezes are my wife and my parents. My wife used to think it was cute, until she realised that her smelling it basically means she's breathing in my sneezes, which is pretty grim.
It's maybe 1 in 5 sneezes, but I can almost always tell when it's going to be a "smelly" one.
That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress.. most only go through the tourist area.
I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.
At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. "There is no leak here, you're just imagining things" was the response after I showed the room to my boss. "There is and we shall see in a few days." After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.
I've been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn't so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.
Elevators full of perfume must be hell
Dude has the super sniffer
Are you like the person that posted they can smell ants? Dude was able to find a single ant by sense of smell.
The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable
I do not know. I have never actively tried to smell ants nor had them inside any apartments I've lived in. I shall test this when summer returns one day. But I do remember that the ant guy wrote about having some genetic quirk that ables him to register some compound that's out normal human range of smell.
On the internet, no one knows you're a dog
I was a super smeller but lost the sense during Covid. It still hasn't fully returned. I have good days where I'll surprise myself by picking up something subtle and off days where popcorn smells like vomit or skunks smell like brake dust. I was considering a sommelier course prior to this.
Yeah, Covid was a freaky experience. I got off easy, no fever or other symptoms, I just realized one day that I was unable to smell freshly cut grass. Then I realized that I did not smell anything at all.
My sense of smell started coming slowly back after a few days and I can't tell if it's diminished or not. But after Covid every brand of whiskey smells and tastes like vomit to me, so there was a price to pay. Also the smell of someone eating rice cakes became utterly disgusting, as well as yogurt. Before Covid I barely registered these two.
As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.
YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more ("The thing is, like, if you're trying to do this, or this, do X first" -- predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.
Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )
Wait, since when does the speed increase go up to 3x?
You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed
I also usually watch videos at around 1.3 to 1.6 times speed depending on the type of video
I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses..., in full 3D and a victorian setting.
In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).
Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multiplayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there's that.
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