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This post helped some people last time aphantasia came up so I’m just copy pasting the whole thing.

I had absolutely debilitating insomnia for my entire life. In the last couple of years I discovered something interesting. I’ve got a condition called aphantasia which means that I cannot see any images in my mind. For my whole life I heard the phrase counting sheep and thought it was a metaphor. Just like. Thinking about sheep since visualizing wasn’t something that I thought people could do.

Anyway, in researching about the condition I found an article online for an exercise where you can work on trying to visualize something. Basically you close your eyes and use the flashing remnants of vision to try to force a shape to exist. Sometimes you need to push on your closed eyes and a little pressure will cause some patterns to appear. You’re supposed to do this exercise while talking to someone outloud. Even if it’s just making a recording. The article I read said you must say it out loud or you will fall asleep. Me having never fallen asleep in my life without hours of concerted effort completely ignored this warning and much to my surprise it absolutely made me fall asleep within minutes.

Ever since then I’ve been able to use this technique to fall asleep every night. It’s like my mind finally learned how to do it. Most of the time I don’t even need to do these exercises any more.

That being said I was so pleased with this side effect I never even tried the say it out loud to try to improve mental images and I still can’t see anything in my minds eye. But being able to sleep every night without fail is a freaking miracle. So I highly recommend giving it a shot.

Here is the original instructions I found on it. https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photographers/

I agree. Didn’t expect much going in but found it to be a very enjoyable show.

I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to more. This and the one about being able to online shop in another world were both great imo.

It’s very not slow if you don’t want it to be as soon as I got a bike I ignored all quests headed straight for high level areas I shouldn’t be. Looted chests until I got cutters and stuff to farm higher end ores and had a thopter in like 2 days tops. I’ve been doing deep desert stuff for ages and still have barely done any quests at all. It’s very forgiving about skipping ahead if you want to. And honestly that made me love the game a lot.

Hey I just bought another keychron Is this a targeted ad?

Most of the replies to your other post were terrible. You don’t have to justify yourself to them. But I do appreciate the suggestions on hidden gems to try out.

I liked the reincarnated as a vending machine one.

And there was one where the guy could shop online in the fantasy world. It was better than expected.

I'll be honest though. I actually enjoy most Isekai even the bad ones. I think they're pretty fun.

Yes absolutely. Very different than HoloLens. They still need to get the fov up a bit higher I think before they explode. But, I often use them for watching shows or playing in my steam deck in bed so I don’t interrupt my partner trying to sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-U9kpJmts

There’s some shots in this video of his camera looking through the lenses. Not a great representation but good enough I think to get the idea

I have several pairs of these glasses from Viture. They’re very good. Not sure how the xreals are. But the technology is legit.

Some of the later books might be more your speed if you like sticking with a single Bob. I personally didn’t care for those ones.

I assume the reason things look like other things is cause we have a tendency to describe new things as similar to other things even when they aren’t. Plus there’s probably some scientific evidence behind form and function. See https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-us&q=carcinization&spell=1

I’m very keen on where the story is going as it stands right now. But I’m impatient for more books. And inevitably will be disappointed in the end I’m sure. Most of the time these situations lead to philosophical cop outs.

The bobiverse books ended up being what I enjoyed most in 2024. Really looking forward to more of those.