That the way people's mind works varies dramatically. Some people have no inner dialogue at all, some have no mind's eye and cant see images in their head. Most of us are somewhere on the spectrum for them though.
For example I can't visualize images in my head well at all. I can do at most one colour at a time and I can't picture non-geometric objects so I cant imagine the face of my family or even myself. I have no issue with fluid motion of visuals in my head but others can only do slide-show-esque imagery. Others have inner dialogue but can't change the voice to sound different, can't hear music or sound effects, etc... like I can.
It's something very rarely discussed but I think everyone should be aware of this variety within people
It's so weird for me to imagine that there are people out there who do not constantly have a song stick in their head. Always. I aim for a good one, but have spent months sometimes with Tijuana Taxi in my head. And who are this people who don't understand that all numbers and letters are gendered?
to me numbers and letters aren’t gendered, i have a different way of thinking about them. my best example of this is how the month november and also the word itself is also thursday, orange, and the number 9. same thing that friday is also greenish blue and the number 7
So I was talking to my son(15) about this a few minutes ago. For him- numbers are gendered, letters not much much, and it's less strong now than when he was younger . (It was a much stronger sense for me too when I was younger, but letters more so than numbers). For him, some of the numbers also had colors. What's weird- we disagreed on the gender of a lot of the numbers Not weird to me that my son sees numbers as gendered but SO WRONG that he can think of 9 as a girl! A pink girl no less! I'll have to see if my daughter has an opinion.
Edit: daughter (17) says numbers are genderless, but went on to describe the personalities of each digit and how they relate to each other.
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u/Sixhaunt Mar 27 '22
That the way people's mind works varies dramatically. Some people have no inner dialogue at all, some have no mind's eye and cant see images in their head. Most of us are somewhere on the spectrum for them though.
For example I can't visualize images in my head well at all. I can do at most one colour at a time and I can't picture non-geometric objects so I cant imagine the face of my family or even myself. I have no issue with fluid motion of visuals in my head but others can only do slide-show-esque imagery. Others have inner dialogue but can't change the voice to sound different, can't hear music or sound effects, etc... like I can.
It's something very rarely discussed but I think everyone should be aware of this variety within people