Loooool shlanks! Idk if people have this I think maybe it’s normal to a degree. Almost most music and actually most of my memories are associated with a particular place.
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Hey! My memories are always associated with a place too. I become so fond of places. Sometimes I have trouble remembering important details of a situation but I can remember where it happened.
When you’re trying to remind someone of a specific conversation, do you ever start describing the place in which a conversation took place instead of the actual words in the conversation?
I don’t know if it’s rare but it’s for sure interesting as heck.
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@bittercat is your avatar a still from the ‘kitty kat’ song on YouTube?
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YES! You’re the first to notice and I’m so glad you did.
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I love that video!
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That makes my heart happy.
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I do a very similar thing though for me the place pops right into my head. Then I have to focus hard to remember the details of remembering the words I heard. Other people I’m sure do this too. They must right? I mean.
Also I have heard of seers, but I don’t know if theyre the same kind you mean. What would your definition of a seer be? I’m curious to know how they are related.
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Lol I’d rather not get banned tbh but yes an interesting phenomenon to be so visually minded humans really are unique
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People, animals, etc. Stuff like that. Complex visual hallucinations. I saw shadow people and insects though.
Good call. I’ll err on the side of caution as well.
Ah I see! Thanks for the clarification.
I’ve only very rarely had visual hallucinations.
I am doing a lot of maladaptive daydreaming, however.
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I can relate. If I have trouble remembering a name I try to visualize and it works. I see things in my mind’s eye, usually not in front of me. Try drawing sometimes, maybe in color with markers or crayon or colored pencil, different shapes, designs. Later close your eyes and you’ll see fantastic images. I always think to myself, man! if I could only draw that well! But, of course, it is a little disturbing at times to see things. Sometimes I will see an image so horrific I immediately repress the image and deny I saw anything.
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I have synaesthesia, so when I remember strings of numbers, my mind assigns them colours and I know I’ve got them wrong if the colour sequence seems wrong.
For an example, my sister’s birthday is 14.04, green green, so if someone said 13.04 that’d be red green, and I’d know it was wrong.
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I’ve had synesthesia at times, like listening to Beethoven I felt and saw white rectangular shapes.
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I’m awful with names. I will have to try this. Do you try to visualize their face or their name?
This is something that I struggle with cooonstantly. Sometimes these images get superimposed onto what my eyes see and that’s extra scary. I prefer the ones where I see nice things.
This is wildly interesting to me. Does it only work with numbers? And are there any downsides to having synesthesia?
Essentially what happens is sensory input gets crossed. Some people hear colour or taste sounds, some assign personalities to words, and some smell textures. The combinations are endless.
I guess the downside is it’s hard to convey to others what you mean by the words you use for what you’re perceiving. One composer yelled at his orchestra to “play more green”, for an examole
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I have aphantasia, can’t see anything, but still have visual hallucinations quite frequently.
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I just try to visualize the words. It can work with remembering lots of things.
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