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Episode 29 - Do You See What I See?
🕑 Added 2024-07-22 19:37:00 +0000 UTCKyle, Allison, and Matt talk about their experiences with mental visualization, and then they try to answer basic history questions.
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David Johnson
I can sorta picture a rotating apple - it's just such a generic, low res apple unless I have, say, an apple to look at first to remind what an apple looks like. OTOH, I can - with my eyes closed - "see" the position of all my extremities and how they interact with the rest of me, even if I'm moving them.
David Johnson
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a37803/why-called-a-teddy-bear/
Steven Richardson
Do Allison and Matt get visuals in their dreams? I've always wondered that for people who can't construct mental images. The thing about blindness, there are different types that are experienced differently depending on the person. Some people see nothing, some get visual stimulation, but it's all swirling, shapeless colours or is just blackness. To understand seeing nothing at all being different than seeing blackness, make up a sense that doesn't exist in humans, like zimwimbling. What do your Zimwim sensory organs zimwim? That's sight for people who don't see anything. Not having the sense.
Light
Regarding the nothing a blind person sees, here's a question to think about: Allison, what do you see out of your elbow? Try to focus on the visual perception you get when you look from your elbow? Either elbow is fine. I think you'll find that the answer is "nothing" rather than "black", because you don't get visual perception from your elbow. Your brain simply doesn't interpret or produce any visuals. At elementary school we had a blind speaker. He could technically see, it's just that his field of vision degrades over time, seeing less and less from the edges in. The question of whether he sees black in the parts he can't see, and he said that he simply doesn't see the parts of the FOV he can't see. He asked us the same question as above, except for the back of our eyes/head. You don't see black, you just don't see. That said, there are types of blind people whose eyes provide a poor input, which could be described as black. Molly Burke, a blind YouTuber (I came across her and WLHQ at about the same time, with about the same number of subscribers), described what she can see as if the brightness was turned all the way down and had some blur on top of that. Bright lights look like dim spots in her vision. So it sounds like she sees black most of the time.
Door Monster
Oh it's fine, we're well aware of what it did to us
CarlOS rendering
Trenches or Hitler? WW1 had both, although Hitler wasn't the bad guy in WW1. He was just a sergent, I believe. Y'all ever hear that story of the British guy who could've shot Hitler in WW1?
Arjun MK
I say this with no malice, but listening to this makes me feel so sorry for people who went to school in Texas
Emmerline
My sister and I have had quite a few conversations about our ability to picture stuff in our mind. Like Kyle I can easily picture things in my head, rotate them and manipulate them on will, but specific things (like Matt's eyes) that I'm uncertain about are pictured but indescribable. Meanwhile my sister is capable of it, but describes it always being surrounded by a bit of static haze? Like it's more foggy and just a flat image over something 3 Dimensional
