Sludgeyy
@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
- Comment on culture 2 days ago:
It’s your brain saying “You are going to do this” rather than saying “I am going to do this”
Most stories aren’t written in 2nd person because the author doesn’t really know you. But when you know yourself you can be the best author of your story.
I believe that a lot of the way aphants and non-aphants think are similar but when it comes to imagines it’s completely different. I haven’t met someone that only thinks in pure images.
Like remembering past personal events. I have SDAM, Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory, that comes probably from my aphantasia. When I think of my last birthday party for example I can remember who was there, what kind of cake, where it was celebrated, anything out of the ordinary happen. But I cannot replay the visual memory in my head. I have to factually recall things about it. Now go back another birthday party and I might be able to remember something out of the ordinary if it stuck with me. But when “looking” back at my like it is all facts. I use to play baseball, 3rd base/outfield, batted 4th. I remember our team being good, I remember I got in trouble a bunch because after I hit I would just release the bat and it would go flying. But I couldn’t tell you about a specific game or anything, I don’t remember a good hit or catch. Just facts.
- Comment on culture 2 days ago:
You do sound like the opposite. Do you have hyperphantasia?
I’d definitely take just audio over reading any day.
Reading just requires me to play the audio in my inner voice. If someone else read and said it then it’s less brain power for me.
- Comment on culture 2 days ago:
Another example from my girlfriend that is an imager.
She pictures a blank memo pad when she tries to fall asleep and focuses on keeping it blank.
I assume this is her version of counting sheep. Trying to keep images from popping into your mind to distract you from falling asleep.
For me I put myself in a scenario and imagine it. Like I walk up to the city of Qarth from Game of Thrones and they won’t open up the gates. I usually give myself superpower. I just “run” with it until I fall asleep. But imagining my body moving is one of the keys, I enjoy lightsaber battles.
I am not watching it, I am experiencing it. It’s not the same as watching it in 1st or 3rd person. It is like experiencing it in 2nd person if your brain was the narrator.
- Comment on culture 2 days ago:
I find other people with aphantasia to be very similar to me.
Imager seem to be very different from one another probably depending on how good image generation is.
One example is I don’t go into a movie with visual expectations. I’ve read Harry Potter, I knew he was a small kid with messy black hair and taped glasses. But when I saw the movie I didn’t care if Dainel Radcliffe fit the role because I had no image of Harry Potter in my mind. Just the details.
- Comment on culture 2 days ago:
Do you get images popping into your head at random times ever?
From my understanding imagers have a lot of that going on from PTSD to counting sheep because they need other images to stop.
I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to
I would say this is true for me with aphantasia. My sister is about to turn 40 and I just convinced her the other day that she has aphantasia. She’s an avid reader and would swear that she could picture things in her mind while reading
My mental “picture” isn’t an image but a mental collection of details that I know exists because I built it in my mind.
I know phantasia is a spectrum, aphantasia to hyperphantasia, in detail. But I don’t know much about how often imagers use their images, always assumed the better you are at, more hyperphantasic, the more you used it.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Hmm.
I feel like I’m very logical and I don’t like speculating on things that I don’t have all the information on.
I can imagine things of course but only in like a practical reality sense
I’m confused of what you mean. Do you think you could give an example?
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
I take in information. If I take it in visually or by reading it, it’s basically the same. I’ll remember what I can as facts and details.
Lol I will stay blissfully unaware. Thanks for the heads up!
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
I don’t normally dream
But when I do they are very vivid like it feels real
I cannot determine if I am actually seeing visuals in them because after I wake up I cannot recall the images, but I feel like I can remember some details I saw visually rather than just making up the details.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Yes it extends to reading.
I do not have an image in my head of what Harry Potter is supposed to look like after reading the book. As long as the character in the movie didn’t have completely wrong details I wouldn’t think anything of it.
I’m the opposite. I will read a paragraph and then realize that I was thinking about something else and even though I read the paragraph I didn’t absorb any of the knowledge.
I couldn’t imagine reading outloud and thinking about what I need to do for work tomorrow. I have to 100% focus on reading words.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Reading text outloud for me does take more brain power. I’m reading it in my inner voice and now I have to translate that to spoken words.
I see “Elephant”, I say “Elephant” in my inner voice, I speak “Elephant” in voice. It’s an extra step.
I’d be like you and not really comprehending what I am reading if I just saw the word and verbally said it. I wouldn’t really comprehend the meaning as much.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
If I wanted to get the best experience it would be following along in a book with audio.
I say every word basically with my inner voice while reading, so having someone else do that for me is brain power I do not have to use.
I took a lot of art classes, I can draw with a reference photo.
It is difficult for me to recall faces for example but if i reduce a face to geometric shapes and proportions and do a lot of trial and error so i can approximate a face I’ve seen.
Same I cannot see a person’s face in my mind but I can think of their face in proportions. I would have to do a ton of sketches to get basically sketch a reference photo, then I could work on making it better from there.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Reading both is very similar for me but non-fiction does give more imagination material.
Like if I read Star Wars I would get a lot more ideas on space and jedi. If I read about the Kreb Cycle I would just know the information on the Kreb Cycle.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Same I didn’t know until I was an adult. My math scores as a child were high but I hated reading and I wasn’t the best at it so I was put in special reading classes.
Do you have the consciously read every word? I don’t understand how people can just look at a paragraph and just soak up the knowledge without going through all the individual words.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
You could pause a movie or show
I can zone out on my own tangents with video or audio and it relates to the video or audio.
I will zone out reading and it will be about completely different things and I’ll realize that I really haven’t gotten anything I just read.
I have to focus on reading, understanding, critically thinking
With video and audio, it’s just understanding and critically thinking. I don’t have to focus on telling my brain the information.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
I’d say that my imagination isn’t effected. It just doesn’t have mind’s eye images to go along with them.
Best way I can describe it is that it’s like a computer without a screen. The computer knows what the image looks like and it could put it up on a screen if one was attached but it doesn’t have the screen to do so.
I get the “sense” of an image. Like it’s almost there and I could tell you all the details of the image I am trying to imagine.
If you have any questions feel free to ask anything, I enjoy discussing it
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
I cannot read unless I know what each word is. I can skim something and look for keywords and get a gist but to really understand something I am processing at least parts of every word in my inner voice.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
I’d equate it to baking a loaf of bread from a recipe.
If I had the recipe read to me while I was make it I could focus 100% of my attention on making the bread.
If I had to watch a video I would have to watch, pause, then complete the step. If I was reading the recipe I would have to read a step and then do it. My attention would become broken in ways.
If I knew how to make the loaf I could listen to an audiobook while making it. There’s no way I could read a book while making it.
- Comment on culture 4 days ago:
I have aphantasia.
How does reading and watching it in your mind’s eye change anything from just watching it on a screen?
I prefer audio books because it allows me to critically think better during because I can listen and think at same time, but reading words takes more brain power.
- Comment on Theft 1 week ago:
All part of the riches plan.
If you think it was a coincidence that he beat two women and almost an old man, I have some ocean front property in South Dakota to give you.
Democrats play good cop but they are still cops
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
My father is an imager. My mother raised me but I did more things growing up with my father.
My mother wouldn’t have done any mind image imagine stuff with me. I wouldn’t have gotten any practice. So that could definitely contribute.
Like apparently an imaginary friend is an imager thing?
I played a ton with Lego stuff growing up. I can imagine building Lego sets in my mind, not with images but with What,Where,Why,How,Etc… I enjoyed the instruction manual because in a way it tells a story. But once I built one I could replay building it in my own way with more details.
Then video games probably fried my brain
I was never put in a situation to really need vivid images growing up. I always had movies and video games. I’ve never liked reading, I’m not getting the head movie, it’s just facts I have to remember. A good story is a good story though and there are some I have enjoyed. Flowers for Alegernon is a great read, it’s in an epistolary style.
I never needed an imaginary friend. But maybe if I did I would have developed the skill?
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
It’s an interesting thing to think about.
My mother and brother both have aphantasia and I never remember seeing any images in my head ever. Counting sheep never made sense to me. So I think mine is more hereditary.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
“Out of sight, out of mind” really does ring true for people with aphantasia in my experience.
But from what I have heard and seen people with aphantasia are very good at memorizing lists.
It’s not really a how good of your memory it is but how you choose to store it. Are you going to pull up an image to remember, or are you just going to “know” it. Some things easier with images, some with just facts.
Like how many arches are on the Eiffel tower. Someone with really good image memory might pull up the image in their mind and count. Someone like me would have to know it as a fact and since “How many arches are on the Eiffel tower” isn’t common knowledge or I haven’t heard/memorized it then knowing it as a fact isn’t possible.
But images also tend to be wrong so you can’t always trust them.
In an experiment where people had to memorize a table set up. People with aphantasia got a total of less items on the table but placement and everything was more true. Someone with a true “photographic” memory could get everything right.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
How would you attempt to store these three things in your memory?
If someone said:
- Go to grocery store and pick up half gallon orange juice
- Go to auto parts store pick up gallon motor oil
- Do laundry when you get home
I’d remember “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”
I can infer where to get the stuff for example, but aslong as I remember certain details I could remember what I needed to do.
As long as I can repeat “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry” in my inner voice I won’t forget what I need to do.
There will be times where I will forget and then have to think. There was something I needed at the auto store…oh oil. Because I don’t break everything down into a perfect list like “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”.
I feel like it’s easier for me to remember if the tasks are related or if the things are in one task. But that is probably for everyone
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. For example I cannot pull up an image of the gieco gecko in my mind. I think gieco gecko car insurance, I would have to think deeper to think more. Like does my car need insurance, would the gecko save me money, etc… And I’m just not going to do that for a commercial I’m actively trying to avoid.
Commercials are more for imagers. The ones that need to see the cheeseburger before they buy it. The ones where a gecko seems like a great thing to do business with.
I’m not immune to their propaganda though.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you might have aphantasia or a very limited visual memory.
Definitely contributes to your decision making processes
Most people can visualize well so you aren’t the norm
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
Very vague. I would have said my “images” were very vague before I learned I had it. It’s almost like I can see them but they just aren’t there.
Like when you picture an apple does it have color?
Do you read a book and imagine it playing out in your mind? Do you get disappointed when watching a movie based on a book you read that the visuals do not match what you had imagined?
Do you get random imagines popping into your mind that you don’t control?
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 weeks ago:
Do you have aphantasia?
I have it and assume people get an image of Wicked Wings from KFC that pops into their head and now that they “see” it they crave it. Just like seeing it in a commercial.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
Having rich people pay into a system and then die is just beneficial. Even if their withdrawal rates are based on contributions. They will leave money behind or they with be neutral.
Someone making $36k a year pays $4,464 dollars for SS.
12.4% is a good retirement fund.
So government takes what could be your good retirement fund so you can save another 12.4%?
If someone really could save 24.8% they would have a great retirement. Yet the retirement for someone making $36K a year is looking grim.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
A unskilled laborer makes about $18 or $36k a year.
They have to pay 12.4% to social security.
36k×.124=4,464
$4,464
Income Tax
$36k-12,400=23,600
12,400×.1=$1,240
23,600×.12=$2,832
$1,240+$2,832=$4072
$4072
$4,464+$4072=$8,536
These unskilled laborers have to pay nearly a quarter of their pay in SS tax and Income Tax.
$8,536/$1,000,000=.0085
That’s less than 1% to them.
Yes the rich do not need safety nets but they should help build them
If you were making a $1m salary. You could give up less than a precent of that and make one unskilled laborer’s life 25% better.
It’s crazy how much $8,536 more would help someone making $36,000
Yet the system is designed so it takes your $8,536 selling you a safety net
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
Social Security is capped at $184,500
SS tax is 6.2% for individual and 6.2% for employer.
Employee A makes $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.
22,878/184500=.124 or 12.4% tax.
Employee B makes $1,000,000. SS is capped at $184,500. $11,439 paid by individual and $11,439 paid by employer. $22,878 total.
22,878/1,000,000=.022 or 2.2% tax.
So someone making a million dollars would only have to give up 1.1% to SS tax and their employer 1.1% SS tax.
They will both pay the exact same amount into SS but the percentage isn’t as high because $815,500 of the million is not getting taxed.