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Tell me something funny about your brain 🧠 (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by xilliah@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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[–] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. When it's suppressed for some reason there is certainly something missing from my life.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's funny like that. We all have such a unique way of perceiving the world. Yet it is normal to us.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was in my late 20's before I found out that everybody didn't see sounds. Not an uncommon revelation in the synaesthetic community.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah same here with experiential/visual thinking. Lots of people just don't believe me. And I can't imagine what it's like to think in abstract concepts or language.