Good doggyyy!
Your thoughts are so powerful that you can trick your body into thinking you got medicine even if you really just got a sugar pill.
I hate this about the body. If you can feel better by being tricked, skip the getting tricked bit and go straight to feeling better
Of all the foods available in the world, you thought of a lemon? Allow your imagination to eat some ice cream. Or a strawberry. But a lemon?
Could just be me but I get a more immediate and more intense reaction when I think of sour foods
I’m with you. Thinking of sour is more likely to get my mouth working.
Reminds me of this joke my parents told me, which I’m gonna paraphrase:
"We used to not have not much to eat, food was rationed, and we only got one 鹹魚 (Salted Fish) at home, not enough for everyone, so we’d have a bowl of rice, and instead of eating the 鹹魚 with rice, we look at it and pretend like we’re eating it, then we eat the rice…
Then this kid was just kinda staring into space and his eyes was facing the 鹹魚 and the mom was like: ‘唔好睇咁耐啊，鹹死你啊！’ (‘don’t stare it for too long, you’re gonna die in overdose of sodium’)"
This joke was so lame but I kinda just awkwardly laugh at it when my parent told it… and they repeatedly told that joke that it just got stuck in my memory…
I think I’m subconsciously doing this when I watch food shows while eating
And you probably turn a little in the direction your eyes are pointed while driving even when you shouldn’t too.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Yes of course, the Russian guy that made 7-zip duh
Y’know how some people can’t visualize images in their head? I know someone that can’t imagine tasting things
and on the other extreme end people can feel or smell colors or numbers.
Dang, do they have trouble imagining things in general?
Yup, they basically can’t imagine any sensation. Not sight, not sound, nothing. Yet they’re a capable and successful person. I have no idea what the experience is like in their head
It is called aphantasia and, like many things, works as a spectrum from slightly reduced imagination of one sense to totally blank imagination of all senses.
I have totally blank imagination at least for visual and smell/taste. limited imagination for sound and, as far as I can tell as good as no limitations for imagination of touch/texture based things.
So when i want to imagine a wall height, ruffling, wet, cold, red velvet curtine that was pissed on… Well all that i can come up with is imagination of how touching the wet, cold fabric feels like. At the same time I know that it should smell awefull and I know all the facts about the curtine like its color, length, width, that you would need to imagine it but it is like reading a technical documention without any kind of pictures or smells, but with very faint and limited sound and the full vivid range of touch based sensations.
I have no issues dreaming, conjuring vivid images while sleeping is not limited at all, but I can only remember them as a list of bullet point facts. The images themself are gone as soon as i am fully woken up.
I would say the things where it limits or complicates my live the most are:
- When I try to do any kind of visual artistic expression. I can only barely do that and it is a painfully slow process, everything i draw looks like it comes from the hands of a small kid. I tried to learn the technics but just can’t perform the transformation in my head to get anything to paper. So everything has to be done in tiny iterativ steps. Arts class was always pain for me in school.
- When I have to solve some kind of “transform the shape into another and compare them” puzzle in games or real life (Ikea manuals for example).
- I am the worst eye witness, because i can’t relive visual memories in my head. I have no visual memories at all, only a abstract, very limited, list of facts. Like remembering scenes from a movie that you have only, in a haste, read the script for.
- and many more things where visual imagination is relevant.
Visual imagination is the only thing I really miss, the other senses barely matter for my, when it comes to imagination, but not beeing able to close my eyes and picture my wife in my mind at all is often painful for me.
Imagining pineapples gives me erections.
Such power. The world will tremble before my mighty ability to salivate.
For me I have this effect with pickles. Just thinking about eating a pickle makes me salivate like crazy.
my thoughts are so powerful or my body is that easy to manipulate
You are now breathing manually.
