the dogs be snickering about how u have fallen for their trap....it's the dogs that decided they liked u :)

Basically looking at a piece of a dead tree with some ink and vividly hallucinating.

I often think about it, too. Didn't know about the word.

i personally find paparazzi extremely invasive....let people live their lives........don't STALK them for bs content

A sack of breath 🤣👀

This one is not normal, but it is weird.

"Be fruitful and multiply" I am glad that my parents followed nature and made me. Sure, sometimes my life sucks, but I really do love this life! And I want to be able give that opportunity to another soul at some point in my life....

I like this idea my kids are still young but I'd always give them help financially if they needed it and I have it I would give it to them it's not even a thought to do otherwise and my family have always looked after the older members it's just how I think it should be

If you're really interested, read up on etymology. It's fascinating. (And things aren't as random as they seem.)

This!!! I’m the same way! It’s actually a fairly uncommon but not rare condition called aphantasia!

I always wondered when someone is bilingual, are your thoughts in your native or most spoken language?

I just cannot understand aphantasia at all - how can you describe something if you can't see it? Is reading boring? Are your memories just words? Are you guys less anxious? I vividly imagine awful things happening sometimes during periods of anxiety, so I "see" loved ones getting horrifically injured etc must be pretty nice not to have vivid catastrophic intrusive thoughts...

Interesting to consider things that have no physical image, 'God' for example, or 'electrons'.

I've always thought in pictures. Even when people talk to me, I have to read what they say in my head or I just don't get it.

I agree! It's so weird. When I close my eyes it's just like turning off a tv. Just blank. And I can't read in my dreams. I see signs or print but I can't read it. And unimportant people in my dreams have no faces. Weird

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Aphantasia. I'm 68 and recently realized that not everyone just sees blackness when they close their eyes to imagine something. I can intellectually 'think' of what an apple looks like, but no image appears at all. I feel somewhat cheated.

So, you don't see an apple without actually looking at an apple or a picture of an apple? Do I understand that right? You can't just visualize an apple in your mind's eye?

I do this but with numbers. Caused because of learning German

It's called "mental synthesis" and there are a lot of fascinating studies on it if you care to google.

Even weirder to me is smells. I lost my sense of smell a few years ago after tonsillitis, but I can remember smells. Think of what a lemon smells like now…

My thoughts are just to fast for random images. But I can envision everything and even from every angle I want too.

Interesting...this is the first time I have ever heard of this! So...does that apply if you are blind? (totally blind, from birth) - how would you know what....a tall skyscraper looks like? (I don't know...I just picked something)

Same! I recently found out it's a condition called apantasia.

I picture everything, sometimes it is very tiring. Especially when you want to explain something like your feelings or something that annoys you, it takes the longest time to put the images to words and bring it in a chronological order so the other person understands. My boyfriend for example does not think in pictures, so he gets really inpatient when i'm trying to explain something. Because of this post I was finally able to do some research and explain it to him.

If a book isn't well written it can drive me demented as my imagination has followed the story into the house say, but you haven't shut the front door or how are you doing that because technically you haven't put down what you were carrying. My mind is a cluttered place....

Now my mind wants apple cider!!

I don’t think in pictures without intending to picture things

I'm not in that majority. I don't see in pictures. My mind is more like I'm reading text in a book. I think this is why I am more of a strategic planner and less creative.

Wait people see things in their minds?

Counting my great-grandmother, who was living with us, our family spoke six languages but no body ever bothered to finish a sentence in the language in which it was begun. To survive in such an environment, my brain turned on the picture mode full blast.

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Apparently I have this. It's probably a good thing as I would be thinking of naked ladies 24/7.

i never really thought about it before...and now that I do/////