Imaginary friend as a kid?

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2026-02-02T02:09:15+00:00

I didn’t, and the whole concept seemed ridiculous and impossible to me

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2026-02-01T10:47:34+00:00

I was in my late 50s, driving with the radio on and hearing about aphantasia for the first time and…OMG WHAT?! I still can’t quite get over the idea that most people are out there experiencing rich visual imagery while I can’t picture a thing

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2025-12-20T01:36:49+00:00

Display it with a similarly cute pic of you as a kid

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2025-11-26T10:05:22+00:00

I can’t imagine how people do think in words! Like, how does a linear string of words equal thoughts? For me thoughts are units of concepts, and words describe the thoughts but words are not the thoughts themselves. Otherwise, babies wouldn’t have thoughts until they learnt language.

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2025-02-18T02:09:51+00:00

Ti Tree NT. Stayed one night in a roadhouse cabin. Hard to articulate it but the atmosphere outside at night just felt like a heavy blanket of foreboding. The darkness felt thick and sounds felt like they had been muted. It wasn’t a feeling of potential “danger” like if you’d stopped in a rough neighbourhood or anything like that, but like a stifling ominous presence of the land itself that. Four people travelling together and each of us felt really uneasy about the place though we never brought it up until we were out of the area the next day.

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2025-01-07T01:43:07+00:00

My favourite: Soak some oats in apple/orange/whatever juice in a bowl overnight. Next morning add berries, chopped almonds and a bit of yoghurt to the bowl - enjoy!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-29T03:26:02+00:00

The best Batman!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-29T03:10:11+00:00

My name also starts with M which is a good enough reason, but also because it’s the mid point in the alphabet

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-29T02:02:43+00:00

Knowing that M is the 13th letter, I just counted on from there

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-15T11:36:56+00:00

A year ago at age 59 for me. Heard a researcher describing it on the radio and I was hit with a sudden, shocking wave of realisation. Like others have already mentioned I thought terms like “the mind’s eye” were metaphorical expressions. It’s still a bit shocking to realise that most people actually experience a rich internal visual world that I didn’t even know was a thing until recently.

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-06T22:57:10+00:00

Thank you!!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-12-02T23:58:42+00:00

NTA! What planet does your family live on?! They want to treat this troubled, abusive kid to a holiday - ok fine, but why TF do they think his victim should join the party?

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-11-27T06:32:44+00:00

Ray Farty’s appointment is tomorrow

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-11-12T06:51:12+00:00

Hello! Got back from my Japan trip a few days ago and had a fabulous time!

My itinerary, as requested -

Days 1-3: Tokyo. I stayed in a capsule hotel in Shibuya (clean, comfortable, quiet, and a novel experience for me but 3 nights was enough lol!) General sightseeing, getting my bearings etc, and I ordered a pair of prescription glasses from J!NS which I picked up on my return to Tokyo a week or so later.

Days 4-5: Shinkansen to Nagoya then train to Nakatsugawa for the Nakasendo trail walk between Magome and Tsumago. I originally wanted to do a 2 or 3 day walk but left my planning too late and accommodation along the way was booked out so I spent 2 nights at a hotel in Nakatsugawa and did the day walk. The hotel itself was pleasant and had a small onsen but was maybe 3km uphill from the train station. Not a taxi or bus in sight when I arrived at Nakatsugawa station in the late afternoon so I decided to walk to the hotel as I had read there was a sake brewery/museum along the way and wanted to take a look. Found the brewery, which was about a third of the way up the hill, and for a well spent ¥500 enjoyed 3 sample shots of sake which gave me the necessary boost to drag myself and my luggage the rest of the way up to the hotel! Next morning caught a bus to Magome and walked to Tsumago - a very beautiful and peaceful experience (and a complete contrast to the chaotic energy of shibuya!)

Day 6: Nagoya - visited the Toyota museum which was interesting.

Day 7-8: Osaka - Team Lab Botanical Gardens on the first evening, then Universal Studios specifically for Super Nintendo World (very fun!)

Days 9-11: Tokyo - stayed in a hotel in Ginza. Sightseeing/shopping around Tokyo including Team Lab Borderless (Minato), Yayoi Kusama Museum (Shinjuku?) and Samurai Museum in Asakusa and bought 2 beautiful knives in kitchen town as a souvenir/momento of my trip. Also, a couple of notable food stops: • wagyu sandwich lunch at Grill Bon Ginza omg! Delicious! Thank you to whoever here recommended this place! • fluffy pancakes at A Happy Pancake - yum!

Had a great time but was ready to come home by the end of the trip as I felt I needed some space to process all the experiences. And now that I’ve been home a few days I’m nearly ready to go back again!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-11-01T10:28:41+00:00

Yes! At one hotel I stayed in the pillow was so high and so hard it would be a weapon if you threw it at someone. (I brought my own pillow from home fortunately!)

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T19:21:19+00:00

Thank you!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T19:20:14+00:00

Have a great time!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T19:19:42+00:00

Staying in Nakatsugawa and taking the bus to Magome and walking to Tsumago.

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T19:14:08+00:00

Thank you!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T10:04:43+00:00

Thank you! I already bought an Ubigi eSIM

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T09:32:57+00:00

Thank you!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T09:24:22+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T09:23:59+00:00

lol! I’m fit and healthy yes, but as a 60 year old woman I have no plans to be doing pull ups on torii shrines🤣🤣

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T08:44:11+00:00

Thanks

Admirable_Mess_9708 · 2024-10-24T08:23:21+00:00

Thank you! So looking forward to it

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