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The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.

I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”

You know how nice it is to hit one button on your phone at night and for all needed lights to go off?

So nice to have them on a timer so when you get home your house isn’t dark.

I think smart switches are really nice but for lamps not on a switch. Smart bulbs work great

For me. Reading something myself vs. Having someone read to me are completely different.

I enjoy audio books way more than reading myself because it doesn’t pull as much of my focus.

When I read, I have to read, understand, process.

When I hear it, it’s just understand and process.

It would be the equivalent of having to read subtitles for an in person conversation rather than hearing their voice.

I can listen and process. I cannot process as well while reading because I’m focused on processing words

From what I understand is that people can read without subvocalizing because their brain can just simply pick up the meaning of groups of words together.

I cannot read without subvocalizing. Like I can skim and read only words that stand out to me and I’d get the gist of it. But to full comprehend everything I’d basically have to subvocalize every word.

To me there’s no difference between reading a chemistry text book or a romance novel. Just words I have to read to comprehend.

I’m sure I’d enjoy reading some things more than others. Like a story with a compelling plot and not a lot of visual word fluff.

But reading pages and pages of words just so I can know what happens next in the story when a simple sentence would suffice doesn’t sound enjoyable to me.

Kind of like how instead of reading the book you could read the cliff notes. At best I’m only going to remember the cliff note facts after reading the book. “How the author tells the story” is lost on me because I’d rather them just get to the point. All the word fluff of setting up a scene are just facts that I’m not going to commit to memory.

As someone with aphantasia I never got why people enjoyed reading

You have things like grapheme-color synesthesia where people really do experience things different. They might see 2s as blue and 5s as green. So if they ever saw a 2 it would be blue. Like 5 5 5 5 2 5 5. Even though the numbers are all the same color to us someone with the synesthesia would see those numbers there in the color their mind associates them with automatically.

Here’s the standard color wheel set to Red, Blue, Yellow as primary colors.

You’ll notice that magenta is represented as almost a whole different color. It’s light red in the CMYK, light purple in RGB.

And

Cyan, baby blue, sky blue, etc. isn’t represented. Instead you get a blue-purple they call violet.

Light Red - Magenta

Light Blue - Cyan

Blue-Purple - Indigo

Light Purple - Red-Purple - Fushsia

We as a whole can’t decide what constitutes purple/violet in RGB model

Even if someone doesn’t know what a true “Indigo” looks like they are still experiencing that color for what it is. They will just call it Bluish-Purple or Purplish-Blue. And unless it really was the exact mix of 50/50 blue and purple it wouldn’t be indigo. It would be a equivalent to a Redish-Orange. A Bluish-Indigo or Purplish-Indigo.

Sorry for the walls of text I was learning and thought I might as well share.

Your language doesn’t change your perception of color.

The primary colors being Red, Yellow, Blue. Is made up. There’s no reason those should be the three primary colors.

Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan could be the primary colors if you were taught that.

In that color wheel orange is an intermediate color. The intermediate color between green and yellow can be called chartreuse.

Did you know chartreuse as a color or did you just know it as yellow-green?

Do you not preceve the color chartreuse the same as someone that just knows that name?

You can perceve all the difference colors on this wheel without needing an official word.

As you can see “Brown” is just a darker orange.

Your phone screen only uses three colors to represent all colors.

If you printed out the photo of the dress the “illusion” wouldn’t work.

The 3 colors used to make the blue dress in warm “gold” light is what allows your brain to interpret it as yellow.

If anything it helps prove that people basically see in the same way. Just if your brain adjusts for the backlight tone. You either saw blue or yellow. No one was saying purple or orange.

If you took mushrooms and saw purple you’d be hallucinating. Your brain is giving you false information.

Seeing it as yellow isn’t false information but a different interpretation of the given material

Do normal people really argue with themselves?

I have aphantasia, no visual mind images, and was thinking about the cartoon representation of the devil and angel battling on the character’s shoulders.

I learned counting sheep meant actually watching sheep in their mind. Could it be like that?

I’m debating if I have an interal monologe. I can “speak” words in my head.

But I wrote this comment without planning and just wrote it down as it came to me saying each word in my inner voice as I typed it.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand hypnosis.

I don’t really dream that much. I normally fall asleep and then just wake up. I’ve had dreams before and I can’t say that I saw images or not. I want to say that I did see images because I would describe them as being very vivid and real like almost like I was experiencing it rather than just thinking. But when I wake up I cannot recall any of the images but know how the things in the dream looked and would recall them like I saw something in the real world.

But if my muscles are relaxed how is that supposed to put my brain in a relaxed state?

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

It’s not a coincidence that the word image is in the word imagination. Most people image to imagine.

We have learned you don’t need to image to imagine. If you would have asked me awhile ago if I saw images in my head I would have said yes because I can hold details of an image in my head and “see” it. It’s like I’m imagining an image to imagine.

Just like I can imagine what would happen if you placed a ball at the top of a hill and let go. I don’t need to see images or a video to “imagine” the ball is going to roll down the hill.

Phantasia is a word used by Aristotle to describe “mental images”. What is thought of as “imagining”. He described it as a mind’s eye.

Imagining is the term that is wrongly named. It could be used for only processing thinking with images but like you said you “imagine”. I have aphantasia and I’m just “thinking” about the ball and it rolling down the hill, not imaging it doing it in my head.

I have aphantasia.

Personally I never thought being hypnotized was possible for me

When someone says “Imagine an apple” I think of the concept or idea of an apple. I would need them or me to give more details about what this imaginary apple has. Green/red, leaf/no leaf, connected to tree or not.

The more details I add the more I have to think about it to hold all the details together.

Example, I know my house very well. I can tell you every detail I remember about my house. But if you told me to imagine your house and just threw details at me I wouldn’t be able to remember the majority of them. If I physically walked through your house I could remember a ton of details.

Feel free to ask any questions!

As an aphant I cannot begin to imagine salivating by thinking of biting a lemon.

I believe some aphants can have smell and taste memories since it only has to do with a lack of visual imagine. Just like some cannot hear inner speech.

I cannot say it’s impossible but I’ve never believed in hypnotizism.

Same for me!

The women have to have an attractive face. Face>Body. I don’t really care for porn with the face hidden but if I can imagine her having a nice face then it could work.

Weird/unattractive guys in a video kill it. Rather just be a “normal” guy that I don’t really pay attention to.

I’ll be honest, I watch some trans porn sometimes because I really don’t care where the dick is attached too. As long as she has a pretty face thats what matters. In a way seeing her pleasure herself with something that I can relate to is much more enjoyable than watching a solo pussy performance (probably my least favorite porn, she would have to have an absolutely beautiful face). I’m imagining any dick I see in porn as my own.

I’m picky too and 90% of my porn experience everytime is searching for “the perfect video”. Guess it’s like foreplay. I won’t generally watch a video again unless I stumble upon it again. I do have some woman that fit my ideal dream girl look and will sometimes search for just them. But I do really enjoy the hunt lol.

Calvin Coolidge

That’s some sound logic right there

You convinced me Breaking Bad is perfect