#mental images

[copperbadge]

Okay so wait a minute, with this aphantasia thing. I don’t think I have aphantasia because I process audio fine, in fact I prefer not to have any visual, but apparently there is some relationship between it and ADHD. I’m not trying to be confrontational in any of this but I’m bewildered by the idea of mentally picturing things you listen to or read about. It’s bothered me since I posted the ask. 

I can picture things in my head, if I stop and make a conscious decision to build them, but if I’m doing that I can’t do anything else -- I can’t listen to a podcast and picture it in my head and also do something with my hands. Come to think of it I probably couldn’t even keep up with the podcast if I was trying to picture it in my head, I’d struggle to choose which things to imagine and by the time I got them built they’d have moved on. It never feels like a very useful thing to do, because I’ve already got the words, that’s the important part, and I’d rather be doing stuff. I just assumed that most of the time when people talk about picturing stuff they’re either doing it very deliberately, like a guided meditation, or they’re being poetic, like people don’t actually do that, we just say we do as a way of describing someone thinking about something.

So, I’m listening to a podcast in which the host reads a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his brother, discussing his brother’s relationship with his wife (“she’s still young, let her dance if she wants, don’t lock her up with the kids all day.”) If you see images in your head when you hear audio, are you seeing the host reading off a sheet of paper, or Napoleon writing the letter, or Napoleon talking to his brother, or are you seeing Napoleon’s brother being mean to his wife? If you don’t know what any of these people look like, do you just make something up? 

Jesus Christ, when people read erotica do they picture the sex happening? What’s that like? You just get porn in your head involuntarily? I mean, not involuntarily, you’re choosing to read the text, but it just shows up when you do? 

Writers, when you write do you get mental images as you go? I often will pause in writing to build a mental image in my head and then describe it but as soon as I do it disappears, and it’s mostly a waste of time so I really only do that when I need to describe a space that people are moving around in (like the fishing lodge with the kitchen bar dividing the living room and kitchen, I do have several mental “camera snaps” of that setup, but I don’t picture it when I’m writing about it). 

This might explain why I always get yelled at for not describing people in my books. It’s simply unimportant to me 99% of the time and awkward to try and insert it the other 1%. I don’t picture people in my head when I read -- they’re a personality, a collection of characteristics. My characters don’t have faces to me, like how people in dreams don’t have faces, you just know who they are. I describe them but that’s just words I really like, or I pick out people who already exist and just say “oh they look like that”. Obviously when someone wants a description I do my best to supply it, but in prose it’s just not important. 

This is genuinely blowing my mind. This is why people always want descriptions of things! They get to see the descriptions! Reading a book must be like going to an art gallery anytime you want without moving. Is that what it’s like? Is this super common, like am I the weird one, or is this just like for people with super vivid imaginations? 

[icreatewhatibelieve]

Hold that image- that feeling- and focus on it. Believe that it is real. And don’t limit your dreams! Stay open, even to possibilities that are beyond your wildest dreams and what you think you need. You could do a lot of good with excess, so do not shy west from dreaming big. And then dream bigger still.

Sarah Billington

[arwenkenobi48]

There’s a very specific dynamic I’m an absolute sucker for and that’s a hero at his lowest point either clinging to a charming villain and begging them for help, or gazing up at them in lovestruck fascination, in both scenarios uttering the line “Please, take me with you” while the villain smiles lovingly and caresses his head.

Something about the mental imagery that conjures up really does it for me.

[dominateeye]

JONATHAN ARCHER???

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Aight This Has Been Bothering Me So It's A Science Experiment Now Lads! Share Around So I Can Have More Test Subjects Please <3

For Me It Depends What Language I'm Told The Numbers In.

English = Numbers Mental Image (123)

But Other Languages Translate To Word Form, For Example:

Mandarin = Words Mental Image (Yī, Èr, Sān)

[booksbebooking]

I once had a mental image that Drew Gooden poured a Red Bull and a whole jar of coffee in a thermos flask, shook it and drank it through a straw all while maintaining eye contact with the camera.

Idek why this image popped into my brain all of a sudden, but it HAUNTS me now😭

[duple-man]

I don't usually get controversial, but if whatever the fuck christian god is decides to show up, know that he is going to be wearing drip. Like sneakers, bell bottom jeans, a golden cross chain necklace, and a T-shirt with the text "Gay as fuck" on it in rainbow text.

And none of you can say that he won't.

[omgpurplefattie]

Heyho! Thank you for reblogging my art and leaving some tags on it. I am feeling quite honored to have nailed your idea of a modern au Nie Mingjue and of course you have me very interested in that fic. Would you mind sharing a link? :D

He's in the background of several fics in my modern AU mixing together different Cdramas:

He's going to turn up and do more in the newest WIP that mostly focuses on the three guys from Mysterious Lotus Casebook:

but only in the chapter that I'm going to post next week on Wednesday.

But still, I saw your lovely drawing and totally found that to be the very version of Nie Mingjue who gives Di Feisheng a ride in his truck and some very crucial inspiration.

[cluelessatthispoint]

What Kinds of Drinks the Merc Would Be

Demoman-Scottish Caramel Pu-erh Tea

Scout-Monster Energy or Red Bull

Pyro-Root Beer Float

Heavy-Vodka or Chamomile tea

Sniper-Chai Tea or Coffee

Medic-Black Tea

Spy-Champagne or Earl Grey Tea

Engineer-A good old cup of water

Soldier-heavily contaminated creek water or Coca-Cola

~~~~~~~~

You can surely see that I am an avid tea drinker and enthusiast. I really want to work at a tea place soooo BAD.

[fpdtalk]

Visionauris

(vei-shun-are-is). From the word vision and latin -auris for hear. It simply means "sight + audio".

Visionauris is the experience where one hears voices and projects ("sees") a mental image either of a character or figure. This is restricted to their mind and a possible inner process.

It is not exclusively tied to FPD and its symptoms though it originates from it. The two parts of this experience do not need to be distressing to be seen or discussed, as known with any other terms of the PD, but it is very important to that person if experienced. Other similar underlying conditions should not be confused with visionauris even if symptoms match. Always double check with professionals.

List of symptoms:

Vivid fantasies and daydreams.

Auditory hallucinations or vivid mental voices.

Regulation of emotions through media.

Factcharas and/or metatity.

Excessive attachment to the media.

Distress is oftentimes dependent on the type of media, fantasies and severity of each.

-Example A is having FPD, regulation of emotions through fantasies of an anime, attachment to that anime growing into possible vivid daydreams and/or auditory hallucinations.

-Example B where you have a factchara (factual character for identity as opposed to fictional character for games), needing media to keep that factchara close to you and developing a personal relationship with the media beyond fan status. This relationship is then used to soothe or calm intense fantasies that may or may not be induced by stress, anxiety, depression or other unknown ailments.

[icreatewhatibelieve]

When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realization of desire.

Joseph Murphy

[oikawasassfreckle]

not much on my mind really just the mental imagery of some guy aggressively riding a unicycle and pumping his arms like he's doing an Olympic sprint

[princesssarisa]

@anghraine has sometimes complained about the Jane Austen fandom's tendency to insist that Darcy must look like Colin Firth. So I thought I'd see if that same tendency is common on Tumblr or not.

[nighttimescribbles2]

yiruma's river flows in you is on.

suddenly thought of zeke playing it (a moodier, slightly more heavy-handed version). an overcast night. the slightest bit of moon. cool breeze that whips through the thin curtains now and again. crawling into his lap while he sits at the piano bench. wrapping arms and legs around him and laying head on his shoulder. the notes chase each other round and round the body of the instrument. at each small pause in the piece, he cradles your back and presses you closer to himself.

he would play for hours and hours if you asked.

[dominateeye]

I am being threatened