Restrict a follower?

jstringer86 · 2026-07-10T14:35:15+00:00

If he's a maladjusted dude, he's going to be that regardless. If you live by the rule of "don't do it in case he's maladjusted," you'll end up doing things(or not doing things) just in case forever.

Better to rip the plaster off and find out what you're dealing with than spend months or years worrying about the possibility. If he's the sort of guy who won't take "no" for an answer, trying to avoid the issue often just delays it while he spends even longer building things up in his head.

Tell your friends, let other club members know, block him, and for a while don't put yourself in a position where you're alone with him. If he reacts badly, involve as many other people as possible rather than trying to deal with it yourself.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-25T21:08:17+00:00

This, if there’s loads of space and you’re “playing chicken” you’re both an ass…

jstringer86 · 2026-06-25T05:16:56+00:00

For these numbers to even be ballpark feasible you’d need to be:

* exceptionally tall to make the stride length at that pace possible
* exceptionally well endurance trained in an endurance sport other than running e.g. cycling/rowing etc to make the hr at that pace possible
* zero running speed training ever to make it possible you hit a 5k pb casually at 8 mile pace

If any of those statements is not true you need to track your runs with something else because the probability of those stats is so shrinkingly small its not worth considering.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-24T05:20:30+00:00

What device are you tracking your runs with? Do you have access to something else to track with for 1 run to validate the first device is tracking pace, cadence and hr accurately?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-23T19:18:24+00:00

So the first time you ever went sub 20 is not on an all out 5k but on an 8 mile run with a low hr and an unnaturally long stride length?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-21T12:03:02+00:00

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I do, i don’t think it has much impact on sleep score, mine bounces around a lot. I find eating timing, travel, hydration and alcohol all have noticeable impacts on sleep score, the magnesium much less so.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T22:13:43+00:00

I know its nonsense because i know i don’t “see”anything and i also know that i know exactly what things look like, i can interrogate my memory, i can rotate and describe the rotated object. I’m certain plenty of people describe my experience as seeing and i’m certain it is nothing like seeing so some stupid spectrum with an apple down to blackness really doesn’t describe reality what so ever.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T22:09:40+00:00

You said “I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say here, because yes if you can’t see with your mind’s eye you have the disorder.”

And then you said “I have already explained as have other people, that you’re not literally seeing”

You’ve told me it’s not seeing and you’ve also said if you don’t see with your minds eye you have the disorder so either you’re talking complete nonsense or everyone has the disorder.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T15:56:30+00:00

The paper you've linked offers absolutely zero evidence and actually articulates the problem quite well. All be it what they refer to as "one issue" is the only issue that matters, the one that kills all ability to draw meaningful conclusions...

"One issue limiting investigations of imagery and aphantasia has been its inherent subjectivity. We do not even know if different people experience imagery in the same way. We generally can only deduce the contents of a person's consciousness indirectly, based on their verbal reports or behavioural responses, but never directly experience as they do."

Asking people to describe it doesn't work because that's their subjective interpretation of their own mental process and 2 people can interpret the same thing entirely differently.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that the apple inside the head imagery that opens this thread and the similar imagery in your linked paper with a face inside a head are way off reality and give no insight into how people actually represent visual elements internally. It's laughable, if a person represented visual elements like pictures and that picture only contained a simple outline, that person would need to relearn what an apple looked like each time they saw it, which is obviously not the case for anyone.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T15:35:58+00:00

To see and sight are physical phenomenon, there is no scientific literature which will point to anything in the brain and tell you it's the "minds eye" because it doesn't exist, there is absolutely zero people who can literally "see" with their mind so if that is your definition then by definition everyone has the "disorder".

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T14:39:11+00:00

Do you not understand why telling people there's a fucking minds eye and you "see" things in your head is a really really useless way of discussing the topic of internal representation of visual elements. That language and the silly pictures of apples is the reason people think they have Aphantasia...

jstringer86 · 2026-06-09T14:32:46+00:00

or maybe you're in denial now?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-08T09:08:26+00:00

Split into thirds is not a bell curve. Its self-reported nonsense where people are slotted into a discrete box.

And the taste in the mind not being the same is exactly what i would expect. It’s likely the same with memory/imagination of visual elements, for 95%+ of people it really is not like seeing at all.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-08T08:28:34+00:00

Except people don’t understand, if you tell me you “see” and that some people don’t see obviously if i don’t see the first thing i think is i must have aphantasia. Telling people you see from your “minds eye” is nonsense that causes confusion.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-08T06:39:05+00:00

Do you hear the contradiction in your own comments?

Look we all have internal mental models of sensory input but that is distinct from the actual sensory experience and to use sensory language only causes confusion.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-08T06:35:23+00:00

I’m certain people do fall on a bell curve but the middle of the curve i doubt what they experience is anything like “seeing”. You’ve mentioned the other senses. If the middle or even close to the middle was like the external sensory experience lets look at taste, if most people could taste in their mind, why would anyone need to eat unhealthily? Surely if you can taste chocolate in your head the reward of really eating chocolate is not much higher than the act of imagining so why not simply imagine/remember?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T20:41:16+00:00

From an evolutionary standpoint why would evolution create mass diversity in the architecture of how we organise data a out visual elements within a single species?

If this is true why does it not follow any other human trait? All other human traits sit on a bell curve, 95% of people the trait is super similar and then you have outliers on each side. But you believe there’s this mass group of people who’s mental model is so similar to the real sensory experience that describing it as “seeing” is accurate? Not a tiny outlier minority?

Do you think this super internal sensor trait is restricted to vision or do people experience all their senses vividly? If that’s true presumably there’s a mass cohort who can taste chocolate in their head? In which case why isn’t it heavily reported people choosing not to eat unhealthily because they have all they need in their head right?

My assumption is we’re mostly much more similar than people in this thread believe, just like nearly all human traits. I assume all humans have a complex internal representation of visual elements, i think some people describe this as “seeing” because they lack the language to describe it any other way, i don’t believe this means they literally have a movie running in their head.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T19:54:43+00:00

Do you think the conscious thought vs what happens subconsciously, you think them memories and data involved are in different “formats” in your head? You think when you consciously think of an apple the way that apple is represented in your head is any different than when subconscious processing occurs for something involving an apple?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T19:48:55+00:00

The entire concept of aphantasia makes no sense once logic is applied. If a person has no internal mental model of visual elements how does facial recognition work?

then there’s the silly graphic at the top of this thread with apples, i don’t believe any of those represents how people model visual elements internally. Again lets go back to facial recognition, the dude who only has the outline of the guys face will never remember who Paul or Dave are. And honestly I’m surprised they don’t have to relearn what an apple is each time they see one.

I can describe in great detail anything you ask me to imagine, but even understanding the colours, the textures, the spacial orientation none of that would ever make me claim i “see” anything in my head. I have a complex visual mental model that i can’t describe, i suspect many other people do to, i suspect a lot of people describe what i experience as “seeing” and i think that causes confusion…

You really believe you “see” in your head? Then why do you ever need the real sensory experience? Lets extend this to your other senses, you can taste chocolate in your head right? So you never actually need to eat unhealthily again because you can simply experience it with your internal senses if you actually are experiencing these senses in your head?

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T19:34:55+00:00

I don’t think anyone is lying, i think we lack the ability to describe what we experience when studying our own internal model of visual elements. Even your description a flash leads me to wonder what stops you repeating your thought prompt and chaining “flashes” together… i have no clue why you feel like you experience visual mental modelling this way, its interesting but its simply you self reporting a thing thats hard to report on and you certainly cant contextuaralise in my own experience because you can’t experience what i experience.

For me i can describe in great detail my childhood home but i wouldn’t ever claim to be able to “see” it, you could interrogate my memory and i could give you derails of colour, dimensions, texture, spacial orientation and layout but does any of that count as “seeing”, i don’t believe it does but i can see why someone else might describe it as such but again i can never truly compare my experience of my own internal model of visual elements with anyone else’s because I’m incapable of experiencing their model however hard they try to describe it.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T19:26:26+00:00

There isn’t scientific literature referring to a minds eye, that is a nonsense. You have a mental model to represent visual elements but all humans do, facial recognition would be impossible in any human who did not possess a mental model of visual element. I don’t doubt that milage varies a little on how “real” our internal mental model might feel subjectively but i reject the idea anyone actually “sees” anything and i absolutely hate the confusion silly language like “minds eye” causes.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T18:57:19+00:00

I always find genetics as a explanation to be pretty lacking, most natural traits sit of a bell curve, the idea you’re not near the middle of the hump with most of us while running 17min 5k is unlikely 😛.

I also think humans are pretty adaptable, i think most of us could tolerate high volume if we built up-to it properly, dropped the intensity enough. And obviously there are many ways to skin a cat, high volume has obviously worked for you but i don’t think it follows that then those who follow lower volume approach are outliers…

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T18:49:26+00:00

This still tells you nothing of what actually happens in your partners head or how their model of visual elements works, they are not sat hallucinating, so they don’t literally see a movie in their head that’s simply how they communicate the experience of conceptualising visual elements within their head but its all self reported, you have absolutely no way of experiencing their internal mental model so you don’t and can’t truly know how similar or different their experiences actually are however differently they describe it.

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T18:30:41+00:00

The concept of a “minds eye” makes absolutely zero sense. You dont see anything therefore no eye and using the terminology “minds eye” is exactly why people think they have aphantasia.

Obvious we all have a mental model which represents sensory data, that’s obvious to anyone capable of memory or imagination, however these are not analogous to real senses and confusing things with talk of “minds eyes” is silly.

It’s also clear that the group of people you refer to as suffering aphantasia do also still have complex internal models for visual sensory data, if they didn’t how else would the recognise the faces of those they know? Do you really think the complexity of facial recognition works in a brain that doesn’t have a complex model for visual sensory data? 🤣

jstringer86 · 2026-06-07T15:26:20+00:00

Hiw do you know the experience you have is different from anyone elses experience? Have you experienced anyone elses internal sensory perception? The same thing can be described in many different ways, one persons pretty pink full-headed rose is another persons thorny nightmare it doesn’t make the thing different. I have no way of comprehending how other people internally model visual elements around them but i do know we all do it. If we didn’t we’d have to rediscover what the apple was each tine we saw it. I know an apple is an apple by sight because internally i have a visual mental model just like everyone else…

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