[Morgoth]

I organized a surprise birthday party for my brother today. I got as many of his old friends as I could to fly to Oslo for the week end. The grin on his face when he arrived at the restaurant to have dinner with me.. It feels good to do something nice for someone.

I later ruinedit by buying him half a dozem shots of tequila. He retaliated. I might bea little drunk, but not nearly asdrunk as my brother, that pansy.

[Nicodimas]

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[Slow Ben]

In Louisville for the Derby.

[Tiste Simeon]

Morgoth, on 06 May 2016 - 11:30 PM, said:

I organized a surprise birthday party for my brother today. I got as many of his old friends as I could to fly to Oslo for the week end. The grin on his face when he arrived at the restaurant to have dinner with me.. It feels good to do something nice for someone.

I later ruinedit by buying him half a dozem shots of tequila. He retaliated. I might bea little drunk, but not nearly asdrunk as my brother, that pansy.

On the plus side, no one can tell you have been drinking...

[Loki]

I've been eating fairy bread with M&M's all day.

[Arthur Dayne]

After the passing of my German Shepherd this weekend my wife wouldn't let me sit and cry like I wanted to. Despite me wanting to wait for awhile before getting a new dog, apparently I had very little say in the matter. Tonight i'll make a new thread with said new dog's picture soliciting "mostly" tasteful new names as we pick her up this upcoming Saturday. If I can get my mobile to play along i'll get it started sooner.

[worry]

One of the nerds who helped develop Firefox figured out recently he has Aphantasia, the inability to visualize anything ever, and wrote about his experience: https://www.facebook...56834777480504/

[Loki]

worry, on 10 May 2016 - 05:23 AM, said:

One of the nerds who helped develop Firefox figured out recently he has Aphantasia, the inability to visualize anything ever, and wrote about his experience: https://www.facebook...56834777480504/

That's an interesting read. I have the opposite problem in that every word, thought, concept etc is a picture. I'm constantly converting pictures to words. It's one of the reasons I hate when people ask how I am feeling. I usually just say 'fine' because 'small white elephant drowning in yellow storming sea' tends to take too much effort to put into 'normal' words.

[worry]

That is equally interesting. Is there a name for that?

[Loki]

worry, on 10 May 2016 - 07:05 AM, said:

That is equally interesting. Is there a name for that?

I have no idea. If it has a name, I haven't been able to find it. I just know that visual thinking/picture thinking isn't correct.

It's hard to explain but I'll try to give examples.

Hands pressed together flat with fingers pointing up, highway overpass, rocks of salt. - Please pass the salt. (An easy one to explain)

Woman standing in kitchen holding a knife, grandfather clock - Heirloom necklace. (Not so easy to explain)

Small white elephant drowning in a yellow storming sea - I'm feeling small bursts of anger (small white) caused by a bigger issue (elephant) that is making me feel anxious (yellow) and it's overwhelming (storming sea) and I'm not sure I can handle much more of it (drowning). (Headache causing)

Sometimes my associations are the same as other people and sometimes they are thoroughly different. When I am trying to describe something, especially an abstract concept, it is basically beyond me because a black triangle (a sense of knowing based on what we don't know but do) doesn't mean to other people what it means to me and I don't know how to put it into normal words . And common associations with certain things like colours or symbols don't apply. For instance, yellow is never a good or happy colour. Snowflakes never represent snow or the cold. It's heavily based on symbolism but at the same time if you say 'imagine a car' I see our car. But if you say "I was late because there was a crash on the M1' I see a shattering clock, yellow car, generic highway, M1. So, if you said to me 'shattering clock, yellow car, generic highway, M1' I would be all 'Oh, there was a crash on the M1 so you're late'. But if you said 'shattering clock, white car,generic highway, M1' it would mean you were late because the M1 was full of bad drivers.

I also never see words. I see symbols and numbers and letters used as symbols or numbers. But any time there are words in my thought (so a picture that has words in it, like an open book) the words are just fanciful scribbles. I can't see 'forest' or 'Seven' in my head. I can see Roman numerals though. Certain numbers also have matching colours and/or the colour changes the thought. So, IV black font white background is four. IV in the middle of a blank book page is fourth. IV on a clock face is four o'clock. But IV white with a black background means four in relation to a count down. 11 black on white background means eleven. But 11 on a yellow background means uncomfortable.


I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well...

This post has been edited by Loki: 10 May 2016 - 07:52 AM

[worry]

I think I get you as much as possible. It's kinda like visual mnemonic devices, but for the purpose of thought language rather than memory (ie you're not relying on an actual memory of a shattered clock associated with a particular crash....a shattered clock is the word for 'crash').

[Loki]

worry, on 10 May 2016 - 08:13 AM, said:

I think I get you as much as possible. It's kinda like visual mnemonic devices, but for the purpose of thought language rather than memory (ie you're not relying on an actual memory of a shattered clock associated with a particular crash....a shattered clock is the word for 'crash').

That's actually a good way to describe it. It's not 100% accurate since like you said, it's not about memorising things, but it's a good starting point for trying to explain it.

Also, shattering clock = late. A shattered clock = catastrophic failure and/or depressing finality.

[HiddenOne]

This is interesting, I've never known anyone to describe thought processes quite like this.

[QuickTidal]

2 year wedding anniversary with my wife. I'm about as lucky as they come.

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 10 May 2016 - 01:18 PM, said:

2 year wedding anniversary with my wife. I'm about as lucky as they come.

And you've still not shared wedding pictures with your closest friends, us!!

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 10 May 2016 - 02:25 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 10 May 2016 - 01:18 PM, said:

2 year wedding anniversary with my wife. I'm about as lucky as they come.

And you've still not shared wedding pictures with your closest friends, us!!

Ha, this is true! I'll ask the missus.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Loki, on 10 May 2016 - 07:50 AM, said:

worry, on 10 May 2016 - 07:05 AM, said:

That is equally interesting. Is there a name for that?

I have no idea. If it has a name, I haven't been able to find it. I just know that visual thinking/picture thinking isn't correct.

It's hard to explain but I'll try to give examples.

Hands pressed together flat with fingers pointing up, highway overpass, rocks of salt. - Please pass the salt. (An easy one to explain)

Woman standing in kitchen holding a knife, grandfather clock - Heirloom necklace. (Not so easy to explain)

Small white elephant drowning in a yellow storming sea - I'm feeling small bursts of anger (small white) caused by a bigger issue (elephant) that is making me feel anxious (yellow) and it's overwhelming (storming sea) and I'm not sure I can handle much more of it (drowning). (Headache causing)

Sometimes my associations are the same as other people and sometimes they are thoroughly different. When I am trying to describe something, especially an abstract concept, it is basically beyond me because a black triangle (a sense of knowing based on what we don't know but do) doesn't mean to other people what it means to me and I don't know how to put it into normal words . And common associations with certain things like colours or symbols don't apply. For instance, yellow is never a good or happy colour. Snowflakes never represent snow or the cold. It's heavily based on symbolism but at the same time if you say 'imagine a car' I see our car. But if you say "I was late because there was a crash on the M1' I see a shattering clock, yellow car, generic highway, M1. So, if you said to me 'shattering clock, yellow car, generic highway, M1' I would be all 'Oh, there was a crash on the M1 so you're late'. But if you said 'shattering clock, white car,generic highway, M1' it would mean you were late because the M1 was full of bad drivers.

I also never see words. I see symbols and numbers and letters used as symbols or numbers. But any time there are words in my thought (so a picture that has words in it, like an open book) the words are just fanciful scribbles. I can't see 'forest' or 'Seven' in my head. I can see Roman numerals though. Certain numbers also have matching colours and/or the colour changes the thought. So, IV black font white background is four. IV in the middle of a blank book page is fourth. IV on a clock face is four o'clock. But IV white with a black background means four in relation to a count down. 11 black on white background means eleven. But 11 on a yellow background means uncomfortable.


I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well...

This is very intriguing! I bet there's a reddit community for it

[amphibian]

This is similar to memory palaces and synesthesia.

[Tiste Simeon]

I went to the creative writing group again and I feel inspired to actually do some writing. Nearly 1000 words tonight, chuffed with that.

EDIT: 1000, not 100...

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 10 May 2016 - 09:49 PM

[Puck]

Eurovision. Decided to go the whole route this year with watching both semifinals and finals and gossip and stuff (usually I'd forget and only realize it's on when the finals are on TV). It's damn entertaining