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Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by vborovikov »

Fwirt wrote: post #79

Does anybody else experience a similar phenomenon but with their auditory system? Whenever I'm falling asleep in a room with white noise (usually a fan) I swear I hear people talking, songs, animal noises... But it's just the fan.

Yep, when I'm really sleepy and is about to fall asleep I hear cacophony, familiar people's voices saying single words or short phrases. I even can hear my own voice saying something short.

It's very consistent and I use it as a sign that it's time to sleep.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by vborovikov »

beardyw wrote: post #83

I am not sure about this. If you stare at anything for long enough you get peculiar effects in your vision (try it). That said, in the last year or so I have begun to enjoy music from the extractor fan in our kitchen. Each time it is on I hear a random genre of music - plain chant, brass band, jazz, etc. I don't experience it in any other context (or any other hallucinations before you ask). Anyone else get something…

I discovered a fridge in a supermarket with a very pleasant humming tone. I went there often just to hear it and even tried to record the sound with a shitty mp3-player but it was unsuccessful.

But it was just one genre, music by an artist like Stelladrone or similar.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by Sander_Marechal »

NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #75
postalrat wrote: post #27

Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…

I had those dreams from time to time, it looks equally disturbing like those AI memory images: https://imgur.com/ocplHAy Sometimes it is very fast morphing shape of objects and events, morphing into other shapes and events ... But what is most disturbing is that during the dream everything looks logical and known, it is feeling like tapping to some higher source of knowledge, but as soon as I wake up, it seems my bra…

This reminds me of people's reaction to this image: https://twitter.com/melip0ne/status/1120503955526750208

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

postalrat wrote: post #27

Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it? It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep. I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a ver…

My fever dreams involve some kind of impossibly large scale task that can seemingly only be completed by infinite tedium. The task is always very abstract such that I could never say what it was my mind was trying to accomplish, other than that it required this focused tedious repetition.

I wonder if it is the experience of a mechanism the brain uses to prevent damage from the high body temperature?

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by low_tech_love »

beardyw wrote: post #83

I am not sure about this. If you stare at anything for long enough you get peculiar effects in your vision (try it). That said, in the last year or so I have begun to enjoy music from the extractor fan in our kitchen. Each time it is on I hear a random genre of music - plain chant, brass band, jazz, etc. I don't experience it in any other context (or any other hallucinations before you ask). Anyone else get something…

Yes, the noise from my clothes dryer sounds exactly like a Deafheaven song, whenever I dry my clothes I get that song stuck in my head for ours.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by low_tech_love »

low_tech_love wrote: post #115
beardyw wrote: post #83

I am not sure about this. If you stare at anything for long enough you get peculiar effects in your vision (try it). That said, in the last year or so I have begun to enjoy music from the extractor fan in our kitchen. Each time it is on I hear a random genre of music - plain chant, brass band, jazz, etc. I don't experience it in any other context (or any other hallucinations before you ask). Anyone else get something…

Yes, the noise from my clothes dryer sounds exactly like a Deafheaven song, whenever I dry my clothes I get that song stuck in my head for ours.

Actually sorry, it’s my air humidifier that sounds like deafheaven. My dryer sounds like a Pink Floyd song.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by greazy »

dorkwood wrote: post #104
the_af wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've always suspected that people who claimed they could visualize things with great clarity were lying I know this will do nothing to dispel your suspicion, but I can see people and places with great clarity, detail, in color and moving, and if I focus on them they are not fleeting (I get involuntary images that are fleeting though). You'll be right to dismiss my claim -- I'm some random stranger on the internet a…

There's a test I'd like to give someone with your abilities one day, and I'd love if you took the time to try this. I forget where I originally saw it, but it goes something like this: Imagine you're looking down on a grid of squares. It's a little bit like a chess board, but it's only four squares wide and four squares high. In each square is a single letter, and each horizontal row spells a four-letter word. The to…

This is a very interesting test. I wonder if there is a simpler version of this test as it seem to be aimed at high level vividness?

I'm on one spectrum (absolutely no imagination), this test might be aimed at the other end.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by Markoff »

beardyw wrote: post #83

I am not sure about this. If you stare at anything for long enough you get peculiar effects in your vision (try it). That said, in the last year or so I have begun to enjoy music from the extractor fan in our kitchen. Each time it is on I hear a random genre of music - plain chant, brass band, jazz, etc. I don't experience it in any other context (or any other hallucinations before you ask). Anyone else get something…

I've had same experience with one old Prague escalator in city center which played rhytm from amazing Sicario soundtrack, it was pleasant ride for that minute

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by recursive »

cixx wrote: post #80
recursive wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I get this. It's kind of a problem some time. My brain gets trapped in a loop of trying to solve some puzzle or system of constraints, but none of it is based on anything. I couldn't even describe it. It's more like patterns of faux-logical systems. When I recognize it happening, I can usually snap out of it.

I experience exactly the same thing, with me it happens when I am very tired. When I was younger ( Now I know what is happening and I just take it as a sign that I'm very tired. It's comforting to see someone else describing the same thing that is happening to me. My "logic puzzle" is moving endless amounts of large, heavy cubes in holes that keep on appearing when I fill them. The visual aspect is only a part of it,…

Yes, this happens to me when I'm very tired. The worst is when I'm about to fall asleep, but this thought pattern keeps my brain just active enough to prevent sleep.

Re: Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Post by torginus »

kepair wrote: post #93

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect The article starts with self-reported effects, already conditioning you to expect an almost psychedelic experience with this test. Didn't like that.

This. I haven't read the guide carefully and I had no idea I was supposed to experience auditory hallucinations, and I didn't hear any. I wonder if the visual hallucinations (which I did see) were caused by my prior expectations.
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