Mind's Eye (etc?)

Hey, I never pretended to know 'why' this phenomenon happened. It was only an observation I had made it the time.Your explanation seems perfectly reasonable.

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. Ok, thanks.

Well, the "hero" of the novel murders over 20 women, doesn't he? It's a story about a serial killer. And yet it's a story about a sort of person who does not exist. Serial killers exist, but no-one remotely like the hero of the novel exists.I would never read a novel where the hero was a serial killer in the first place, but if I did I'd want it to give me some sort of insight into that sort of person, but in this case it's a made-up sort of person, a sort of person who has never existed.As for being interested in literature ... one gets to pick and choose. You have never had the pleasure of hearing me read Fern Hill, or Ode To A Nightingale, or Waking Early Sunday Morning, or Spain ... I shall say nothing of my own poetry ... so don't tell me that I'm not interested in literature unless I read a book about a serial killer. There are other things to do.Literature apart, here's Murray Perahia playing the Goldberg Variations. Why should I have to spend a moment of my time thinking about imaginary serial killers?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Hi, Moose.I didn't realize that other people weren't like this.I don't think I'm capable of not doing this: there are always images and things going through my mind, and I can never focus on anything. Sometimes, I think I must be borderline autistic. The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes kind of captures it (except his mind's eye always turns things into something else, while mine just imagines something de novo).I guess that's why I got into science fiction originally. If only I had the focus to finish a book, maybe I'd be famous.

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I randomly encountered this. Now I realize that there is a lot of things aphantasia on Youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa84hA3OsHUIn reviewing messages early in this topic, there seems to be a more than expected number of posters that have aphantasia.MooseEdited by Minnemooseus, : Embed video.