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Huntard
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Message 56 of 65 (555888)
04-16-2010 3:33 AM
Reply to: Message 54 by Minnemooseus
04-16-2010 1:19 AM


Re: Mind's Eye article in Discover Magazine
I'm like that building surveyor I guess. I can do all the things mentioned in that article. It's quite nice. I think this also comes with a vivid imagination. I can build images in my head when I read books, for instance, they're quite realistic. What I would like to mention though is that I can also do this with my eyes open. It's clearer when I close them, but open eyes does the trick as well.
I also have that thing Slevesque mentions, when hearing music, I think about games I used to play to that music.
All in all an interesting ability.

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Huntard
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Message 60 of 65 (555897)
04-16-2010 4:36 AM
Reply to: Message 57 by slevesque
04-16-2010 3:57 AM


Re: Mind's Eye article in Discover Magazine
slevesque writes:
You mentionning mental images while reading reminds me something I found quite interesting a 3-4 years ago.
Ever read the book ''perfume'' ? I had to read it when I was in secondary 5 (11th grade a think) . It's the story of this guy who has this incredible sense of smell, and in fact the whole novel is based around that idea. The narrator describes everything through the sense of smell, and so if the main character enters a room, it won't say ''the walls were white'' but it will instead say ''the walls had the odor of rotten cheese in them''.
No, but I've seen the movie.
Now, a year after me and all my friends had read the book, they made a movie out of it. What was interesting was that every friend that saw the movie said that it was almost exactly how they had envisioned it. Myself included.
In other words, this very peculiar manner of describing things in the book had projected the very same images in our minds. Which is radically different from the usual, where everybody reads a book, imagines it totally differently, goes to see the movie and find it to not be like they imagined it.
Although I have never found an answer of why this is the case.
I'm wit Dr. A on this one. This is because no human has ever experienced something like this. This makes you envision it like the writer tells it, which is very limited, because no one knows what it's really like. This makes it easier to come up with the same "images" in your mind.
Look at it this way. When describing the world as seen through "ordinary" senses, we all experience it a bit differently, so we get different images from other people. But now, add an "extra-ordinary" sense, and nobody knows what it's like, so all you have to go on is the author's description.

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Huntard
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Message 62 of 65 (555900)
04-16-2010 4:51 AM
Reply to: Message 61 by slevesque
04-16-2010 4:42 AM


Re: Mind's Eye article in Discover Magazine
slevesque writes:
Hey, I never pretended to know 'why' this phenomenon happened.
I'm sorry if my response made it look like I thought you had. I know my posts can be a little "rough" at times, but I mean well.
Your explanation seems perfectly reasonable.
Ok, thanks.

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