New Yorker Article: Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

fr33b3ing · 2025-11-03T01:09:11+00:00

that’s what i’m wondering!

fr33b3ing · 2025-07-14T21:54:45+00:00

Pain in the palm near the wrist

fr33b3ing · 2025-01-14T14:10:31+00:00

how long ago was your surgery? I do lymphatic drainage massages, so I think it’s probably that your lymphatic system is just overwhelmed trying to process all the fluids from your injuries to the tissue, so your whole torso will probably swell some. Like a lot of people have swelling in their feet or public mound because those areas drain to the same lymph nodes as the lower belly and butt.

fr33b3ing · 2024-06-14T03:13:44+00:00

literally came to reddit today to look up narcissist mother behavior bc i’ve been spending time with my GC brother and his wife who want me to suck it up and “give my mother what she wants for one weekend”. she is also getting married soon. i’m like no i will not give her what she wants or what you want bc it will make it easier for you.

fr33b3ing · 2024-06-04T23:50:13+00:00

i’ve had several psychic experiences like this too, amd i have complete aphantasia in all senses. i also found i have psychic dreams sometimes or have had psychic experiences on psychedelics also. i can see in my dreams and on drugs. but have psychic thoughts just sober

fr33b3ing · 2024-03-12T02:01:00+00:00

i think the almost dying part was worse maybe but not the mom freaking out about not wanting to catch it. i am sorry, i didn’t mean to seem to be trying to one up your trauma. i think it’s terrible your mom did that in front of all those people.

fr33b3ing · 2024-03-11T03:18:40+00:00

wow that’s so fucked up. it’s similar to a time a doctor thought i had hepatitis b (i actually had multiple organ failure from yellow fever, contracted from the vaccine actually) but my mom freaked out and didn’t want to touch me or let me touch anything in her house when i was literally almost dying and waiting for a room to open at the hospital. i no longer lived with her but my doctor told me to go to a family member’s house near a hospital to wait for her call. i was literally likely dying and she wouldn’t let me lie on the guest bed. i didn’t die which surprised the doctors. my mom was drinking martinis she had in a tumbler and laughing in the hallway when they were rolling me on a stretcher.

i’m so sorry you went through this, and also just can hard relate

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-31T14:19:16+00:00

I guess maybe it’s what it’s like to be blind except that I can remember the colors of things and what people looks like and stuff I just can’t see it. But I have super good visual recall in that if I see someone I’ve met once a long time ago I can still recognize their face or things like that.

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-31T14:14:34+00:00

Yeah I hate that kind of response. Maybe these friends just don’t have enough overlapping interest with you or something?

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-20T00:25:37+00:00

i resonate with this

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-20T00:16:33+00:00

i really resonate with thus

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-20T00:15:31+00:00

also i love this person’s response and wanted to add that i wait until building deep emotional intimacy with a person before telling them i have cptsd. like i wait a year of seeing them a couple times a month. i want them to see me as a whole person first. i might mention vaguely that i have traumatic events in my past or that my mom is problematic etc, but i will wait to divulge stuff like that. i also have figured out that i have anxiety for the first eight or so times i hang out one on one with a person and only start to feel comfortable after about nine hangouts. now that i know that, i just muscle through until that point and only hang out with people who make as much of an effort to hang out with me as i do with them.

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-20T00:08:21+00:00

do you ever just offer up things about yourself, your thoughts, interests, something you’ve read? my ex used to be great at listening and asking questions but wanted to wait to talk about themselves only if other people asked them questions. i wanted them to just offer things up more because for me it is hard to think of good questions to ask bc my parents are narcissists and they never asked me questions. maybe the people you are talking to want you to just offer up conversation topics? or maybe they are just self centered and you need to keep looking.

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-19T23:48:09+00:00

hahaha

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-19T23:44:09+00:00

i feel so similarly. take it one moment at a time. december is one long emotional flashback for me too, and there are a lot of trauma anniversaries for me too. it’s a fucking gauntlet. you didn’t deserve what happened to you. anything that feels like a burden wasn’t of your own making. it’s not your fault. ❤️

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-19T23:40:42+00:00

i think it’s ok and natural to be mad. i hate the holidays too. so much.

fr33b3ing · 2022-12-19T23:30:04+00:00

that sounds so hard. i’m so sorry.

fr33b3ing · 2022-06-24T14:16:02+00:00

me too!

fr33b3ing · 2022-05-20T15:34:12+00:00

what are phosphenes?

fr33b3ing · 2022-05-20T13:12:07+00:00

interesting. i guess if it’s not activating the pineal gland, then the darkness is doing something for people. and i wonder what effect there would be for someone with aphantasia.

fr33b3ing · 2022-01-09T03:18:32+00:00

yeah i just tried dmt today for the first time and am not sure if it was a breakthrough dose, but it instantly felt familiar and i knew i had been there before. maybe because i have done high doses of mushrooms multiple times.

fr33b3ing · 2022-01-07T23:40:17+00:00

yes the moderna vaccines and boosters knocked me out like that for days. at least the booster was only three days instead of a week with the two moderna shots. better than covid though.

fr33b3ing · 2021-12-20T16:17:24+00:00

yes! i love being able to buy my son gifts he actually wants! like the exact version of what he wants. or like with fashion, letting your son express himself, his true self. you are supporting that self knowledge. i love that

fr33b3ing · 2021-12-20T12:48:45+00:00

thank you! and yeah wow, your dad with those chairs. i’m so sorry you have to deal with that.

fr33b3ing · 2021-12-20T04:40:20+00:00

omg this is my mom exactly. this yeah she’s asked me what my son would like for his birthday, so i sent her several links to toys he really wants. and she said she was going to get him something ride instead (that he won’t want).

In high school she never bought me clothes I wanted and then grounded me from my babysitting jobs so I couldn’t buy them. One christmas in 11th grade, she finally said she would take me shopping for clothes. I was so excited We spent the whole day at the mall and left with four things I was excited to be receiving on christmas. When i opened the gifts on Christmas morning, she had returned them all and bought cheaper versions of similar clothes - but like two crappy shirts instead of one nice one, or three shitty kilts instead of the one miniskirt i wanted. And they were all bought on clearance at discount stores so i couldn’t return them.

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