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This is what I was going to say. I mean, I’m far too jaded to be able to just use a vivid memory these days for it, but man, my childhood would have been devastated.
Slightly off-topic but a similar question: Do you picture the months of the year in a specific way? For example, when I imagine a year I see sort of a square with round edges (it's hard to explain exactly what shape it is) with January at the top left and then the other months continuing clockwise around the shape. I can close my eyes and see it as clearly as if it were drawn on a chalkboard in front of me. Even weirder, the months are not evenly spaced around the shape. January through May are evenly spaced across the top of the "square", June and July take up the whole right side of the square, August through November are spaced relatively evenly across the bottom of the square but August is a little bigger and December actually begins just before you turn the corner around the bottom-left of the square. The rest of December then takes up the whole left side of the square back to January at the top-left corner. I imagine where something is in the course of the year by where it is on the square. If someone tells me to put something on the calendar for August I automatically go to the bottom-right side of the square. Right now we are about 1/4 of the way down the right side of the square. Also, days of the week are like a sidewalk with each day being a square; and I can look forward to the days in the future and behind me to the days in the past. I've thought this way for all of my life but I always thought it was normal, until I was talking to a classmate about it and she said she pictured months in colors instead of spatially, and another said that his months go counter-cockwise. It was like having someone tell me that 2 + 2 = 5. It just seemed plain wrong.
Didn't we all learn about love in the back of a Chevrolet?
It felt so good to be young....feels....well it fells like yesterday
Reading more of this thread.....is this what mental illness looks like?
What is normal? Is there a normal? Are we here?
Have we all died and are just reliving events?
What is normal? Is there a normal? Are we here?
Have we all died and are just reliving events?
Visualization is a big part of my field (biochemistry). Rotating proteins/DNA/molecules around in 3D, thinking about what would happen if X or Y changed, or it interacted with Z. Models help, but I have to think deeper than that.
It's translated well to physical things I've created. When I used to build trail for the USFS, I had to visualize what the finished project would look like before I set a rock. My chem background was very useful for that.
It's translated well to physical things I've created. When I used to build trail for the USFS, I had to visualize what the finished project would look like before I set a rock. My chem background was very useful for that.
I agree. It was a bad choice of words on my part.
I was shooting more for what is normal and would other ways of visualizing be considered a mental illness.
I tend to visualize prior events from a 3rd person perspective and at times I can't describe events as much as I just feel them.
Normal? Mental illness? Alternate reality?
Who knows? An interesting topic. But my choice of words didn't hit the mark.
I think there are different categories for how people think, learn and process information (which is why some people respond well to certain teacher/teaching and others don't).