You say “apple” to me and I’m #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they’re not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5’s are not handicapped in the slightest. They’re so “normal” that mankind is just now figuring out we’re far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she’s a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she’s clueless. “Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?” “I don’t know!”

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind’s Eye. I feel like I got that title. What’s it mean to you?

  • Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world
    5·
    17 days ago

    This one is a cluster fuck for me… I can visualize an object in my head and even to the point of placing it in real space in my hand and being able to rotate it. I cannot however, see your face in my mind after you have just left the room.

    Don’t really know how that fits in.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      Face blindness (prosopagnosia) seems a different thing altogether, though you would think they’re related.

      • Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world
        2·
        17 days ago

        Thats so weird! As I was reading one of the other comments I realized that I can almost live in the fantasy world of a book, but no one has a distinctive face…

        • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
          2·
          17 days ago

          Yep, this is my club. Also, I can only remember few faces of people I went to high school with. Others are just blurred to central attributes.

          Other thing is, for long I noticed that peoples faces fall in distinct groups according to their appearence even though they are not related. I always thought that they had a similar distant ethnic background and that genes relating to appearance had a type of “quanta” that can’t be completely diluted, which causes faces to fall in groups.

          Now I’m starting to realize that it’s just me and my face-blindness averaging my memories of peoples appearances, creating those groups.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 days ago

      We have hardware in the brain wired to recognize faces. For some people it’s not working too well, independently of the other abilities.

    • AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      What do you mean to the point of putting it in real space in your hand? Like you can just hallucinate it at will and view it with your eyes open as if its in the room with you?!