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[Cassia]

So, I hallucinated seeing a man who wasn't there twice this morning. I was at work, thought I saw someone outside who was hunched over. They disappeared as soon as I looked directly at them. Sometimes, my mind will play tricks on me, and I'll misinterpret what I'm seeing in the corner of my eyes. I pass by a pole, my mind goes "person," but I look and see it isn't. That's fairly normal, but there was nothing there to be misinterpreted. About a minute later, I see what looks like the same man walking around the corner, still hunched down at first, but straightening out as they approached, then quickly disappeared. That one spooked me more, since (A) the illusion was moving, and (B) I was in a locked room, where there shouldn't have been any other people.

This is not something that's happened to me before. I've occasionally heard voices before when I was tired, but I've never straight up hallucinated a person.

I found it is best not to obsess on stuff like that with my active imagination. I sometimes get floaters and flashes in my aging eyeballs and that can really mess with my imagination.

[drunkenshoe]

Bonnie Tyler passed away. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEOl38y8Nj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

[drunkenshoe]

Guys, the hot wave; 'the unbelievably hot weather' should have been here,and it is, but it's perfectly windy and kind a not unbelievably hot. It is nowhere around yet.

[Cassia]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster woke me up at 3 AM. Perils of living near The Cape.

[drunkenshoe]

I know, I've been absent for sometime. But things are so bad and disgusting around here which is also related to there, I really want to be detached from it all. I hope you guys are all doing fine. We are gonna be hit by a bad heat wave on wednesday, I'm trying get ready for it.

[Cassia]

I know, I've been absent for sometime. But things are so bad and disgusting around here which is also related to there, I really want to be detached from it all. I hope you guys are all doing fine. We are gonna be hit by a bad heat wave on wednesday, I'm trying get ready for it.

Yes. It's crazy, yet climate scientists have been expecting wild weather for years. Here in the states, the west in burning and the east is drowning. Hundred-year events are happening regularly. We may have not reached the positive feedback "tipping points" yet but we are getting close. Many scientists agree that a sixth mass extinction event is underway right now, driven primarily by human activity.

[aitm]

I don’t remember if I mentioned last year that my health took a free fall off a cliff. I had to retire due to chronic fatigue and dizziness and an assortment of off the wall shit that baffles every f-ing doctor and specialist I have seen and it’s been plenty. All the time the blood work was “abnormal” but only “a little outside the parameters”. Apparently they could not get them inside the f-ing parameters so for the last 18 months we’ve bounced from severe anemia to leukemia, alas nothing sticks.
So this Tuesday, I saw a neurologist about my balance and dizziness, near vertigo and my sudden loss of words in my head. Very frustrating as you can imagine, I mean I AM 70 but shit, I have trouble walking now without “tipping over” and my eyes have gone wonky on me, have to wear glasses but when I put them on my depth perception is nil and I stumble like a drunk. The neurologist ask if all this happened before or after my stroke? Told her, I’ve never had a stroke….she says…oh yes you have, luckily a milder one but you should have noticed it. I asked when? She had no idea but showed me the brain scan and white scarring, “ There it is”. So, maybe I finally have an answer as to what the hell happened. So, we are now starting to explore what, if anything, can be done to help the recovery, though I am not confident.

[Cassia]

I don’t remember if I mentioned last year that my health took a free fall off a cliff. I had to retire due to chronic fatigue and dizziness and an assortment of off the wall shit that baffles every f-ing doctor and specialist I have seen and it’s been plenty. All the time the blood work was “abnormal” but only “a little outside the parameters”. Apparently they could not get them inside the f-ing parameters so for the last 18 months we’ve bounced from severe anemia to leukemia, alas nothing sticks.
So this Tuesday, I saw a neurologist about my balance and dizziness, near vertigo and my sudden loss of words in my head. Very frustrating as you can imagine, I mean I AM 70 but shit, I have trouble walking now without “tipping over” and my eyes have gone wonky on me, have to wear glasses but when I put them on my depth perception is nil and I stumble like a drunk. The neurologist ask if all this happened before or after my stroke? Told her, I’ve never had a stroke….she says…oh yes you have, luckily a milder one but you should have noticed it. I asked when? She had no idea but showed me the brain scan and white scarring, “ There it is”. So, maybe I finally have an answer as to what the hell happened. So, we are now starting to explore what, if anything, can be done to help the recovery, though I am not confident.

Ischemic blood flow issues to the brain (TIA) are very common. Sometimes they call it a silent stroke. I have mild dizziness and brain fog off and on and also show small white spots in my MRI and the Drs just say "see ya next year". I figure I am never gonna get close to 80 (my parents checked out early), but that's OK. I feel I have had a very wonderful and fortunate life compared to 99.9%.

[Blackleaf]

I asked someone I knew if they have a literal inner voice in their head, since I learned somewhat recently that a lot of people don't. He said no. I asked if he pictures an apple, how much detail does he see, and he said typically none. That's a thing I also learned about recently, called aphantasia. I'm like, what's left?

How do people live like that? No inner voice. No imagination. So, they just react to stimuli and that's it? Is all their thought is unconscious? Their experience is basically just qualia and emotion?

Do any of y'all lack an inner voice and/or have aphantasia?

[Hydra009]

I have an inner monologue (dialogue, too) and I do visualize objects and rotate them, but they're not exactly photorealistic. Fairly simple geometry and shading. So I would be a two in this diagram. Apparently, my inner world is 16-bit. Also, the apple is light green or one of those yellowish-red varieties.



I regularly daydream and while writing, I imagine the characters saying/doing the things first, then simply search for the write/right words to transfer it to paper and express it to the reader. The imagining part is incredibly enjoyable, the conveying it with words part is not enjoyable at all and fairly difficult ><