Comment on Ant smell

essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• H4mi@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Some people can see images and hear voices inside their heads…

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  • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It really fucked me up when I realized that “picture this” wasn’t an entirely figurative saying, and everyone else does actually see stuff in their “mind’s eye.”

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      had you ever heard of artists drawing with their eyes clothes

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Are those like sunglasses?

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      • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I can do that too. You’re misunderstanding the concept. I’m perfectly capable of drawing, eyes closed or not (though it’s much harder eyes closed, obviously. I do digital art. I just conceptualize things differently. I don’t have a mental image, it’s more like a knowledge of what shapes go together to make certain forms. I build things piece by piece from fundamental shapes that I analytically know make certain objects or creatures, but I don’t have an image of what it is until I have actually put it down in paper.

        I don’t know if I worded that in a way that makes sense, as I’ve always struggled with explaining how I conceptualize to people that have an ability I don’t. I know what shapes make up a dog, but I can’t see the dog, if that makes any sense.

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      • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Your “eyes clothes” typo was so unexpected it got me good. I couldn’t stop giggling for a solid minute. My partner asked me what was so funny and I gasped out “eyes clothes” and she just sighed and walked away.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Do you think you could learn how to see in your head? I remember learning how to see 3d in drafting class, I bet you could learn how to see in your thoughts. Like maybe look at something, like a t-shirt, and closing your eyes, then opening them and see if you can continue picturing it? Just a though, because like I said, I learned how to see 3d.

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      • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        No, certainly not. It’s a condition known as aphantasia, and isn’t something that can be cured with practice. I have a lifetime of practice in conceptualizing in a different way though. I don’t feel that I’m missing out on anything really, just experiencing the world differently. I didn’t even know that I was any different than most until I was an adult, and a friend of mine made me realize it.

        Someone with aphantasia might be able to learn how to conceptualize in a different way, but I don’t think you can train what’s not there, any more than a blind person could train themselves to see. There isn’t a lot of study into it though, and I’ve found it difficult to get solid information on my condition, so perhaps there’s more to learn. Why, for example, do I have a very vivid imagination of sounds? I can imagine an entire song in all of its different instruments as if I could hear it, but I can’t even conceive even a little bit of what it means to see something in my head.

        I’ve had it explained to me very often by people with varying degrees of sincerity or understanding, and I still don’t quite get it. Is it like dreaming, or like a hallucination, or like an image you can’t really see but still know is there? It’s foreign to me, and no description I’ve heard makes it clear. I dream quite clearly and in color, but that’s like I’m there experiencing it in person. I’d love to learn more about aphantasia, especially since my fiancée has the opposite, hyperphantasia, and it would be nice to more easily collaborate as artists.

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    • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Realizing that made me hate books even more.

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Books are fine. You just need to find authors who don’t spend two pages describing someone’s clothes, as you won’t remember anything past “pretty tall and dark haired”

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      • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I love reading, and I love writing and storytelling. I think books can be for anyone. I wouldn’t let a difference in perception preclude you from enjoying an entire form of media, entertainment, and information. For me, audiobooks work best to hold my attention, as I struggle to sit and read words in front of me without keeping myself busy. It’s not a fit for everyone, and not everyone will like reading, but I think it’s a very simple joy that so many people have had hammered out of them by bad parents, bad teachers, or bad education systems that taught them to dread or hate books and reading. I got back into reading as an adult, and it’s one of the most fulfilling parts of my day.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It’s okay homie… there are dozens of us ;-)

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• SoftBerry@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It has never occurred to me to sit while wiping

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  • DadVolante@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    So you stand up and let the shit spread further?

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Eat more fiber.

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    • SoftBerry@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      More of a squat, I don’t stand up straight or anything.

      So the popular option is to continue sitting and put your hand under to wipe?

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      • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Lift just one side so your buttocks spread, then reach from the side to wipe. All the while, the seat carries (most of) your weight.

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      • DadVolante@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I tilt one way.

        Then wash my hands.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Same, thinking about it the idea of putting my hand in the bowl to do that is grossing me out too. Do you go in from the front or the back or do you kind of lean over?

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    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I do a lean over, and I’ll usually >!hold my cheeks apart so it doesn’t mush the poop into my crack!<

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Interesting. I’m gonna go load up on taco bell for lunch so I can try this later.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’re already sitting though…

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I used to, until it was pointed out that wiping while sitting is better so I switched

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why did you do it that way to begin with? I’m just curious.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Leftovers from when your parents did it for you as a kid that was able to use the toilet but not necessarily able to wipe properly?

      That’s my hypothesis anyway

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How is it “better”?

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    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Keeps your cheeks spread so you don’t mush the poop when you stand up.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I switched from wiping from the back, to wiping from the front, to dabbing the bidet water off a little bit because bidets are absolutely incredible.

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• Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Some just use their hands…

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That link is staying blue. Also, gross.

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Some people don’t wipe at all. Bidet gang represent!

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