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@Alexander-Salkin said in Tell the Truth now!:
My question is have you ever had an unplanned lucid dream that enlightened you to something?
Oh definitely. So even before I started dealing with insomnia as a side effect to meds, I would occasionally have lucid dreams (among day dreaming, regular dreams, and basically just letting my imagination run wild) and there have been several that inspire philosophy, writing, and just creating in general.
I honestly look forward to those moments and try to write down everything I can remember. I suck at trying to trigger them in any way, so when it does happen, I have to be ready and pay attention lol.
They always make me feel small. Not like, small in a bad way. More like, there is so much more to the world. It gives me perspective. There could be great and powerful cosmic forces outside of time and space, and here I am worrying about rent, my job, and whether or not to get pet insurance for my accident prone dog.
My question~
Do you feel most of your "self talk" is mostly positive or negative?LiveTale Ambassador
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@Alexander-Salkin wowwww thank you for taking the time to write all those out, your stories were super cool! I love when paranormal/weird experiences like that are just kind of inconsequential, because not everything has to be an alien abduction or a bridge collapse. Sometimes the world is just a little strange!
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Oooo oooo so I don't have an internal monologue. There is no self-talk. Most of the time my brain is blissfully quiet, until a thought or idea pops in much like a soap bubble bursting (we need milk!). I discovered this one night when I was utilizing a particular weed and talking to myself in my head. I mentioned it to my partner, who was astounded and replied "yea that's what it's like all the time". Well, not for me! I had previously thought that talking to ones self was a method utilized by authors or storytellers to convey something to the audience. So I don't have self-talk, which feels like a blessing. It takes incredible strength to listen to negative things all the time, especially from yourself. I'm so very sorry if anyone has to deal with that and I hope you know how very loved you are.
What is the one day you would choose to repeat and why?
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@mianngu I have heard that some people can't hear their own voice in their heads, like they just don't have a running monologue. They think in terms of pictures and feels more than words. I envy you and all the rest lol.
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@Ezra Yep, I’m one of those people. No internal monologue, no “voice” in my head (I actually can’t even conceive of how that works - is it your own voice?) and my thoughts come to me as concepts or directives or facts rather than constructed sentences or images. I also have aphantasia, so I find it extremely difficult to picture things in my mind at all. I’m gonna bust out the same chart I always use to explain it to people:
This represents what happens in your mind when thinking about an apple. Most of the time when I’m thinking about an apple, I’m at 5 - no image, just the word/concept of “apple” in my head. If I focus I can maybe very briefly get to 3, but it’s difficult to keep the image in there and I’d struggle to even describe it because it disappears so quickly. It makes it tricky for me to read certain kinds of writing (too much descriptive prose bores me because I can’t form the mental image so it’s kind of just irrelevant to me) and unfortunately makes it really difficult for me to roleplay, as I simply can’t imagine things. That’s actually a big part of why LiveTale excites me so much - having a visual medium for my own RP games will help me tremendously! The silver lining is that I’ve been this way my whole life so I don’t feel I’m missing out on anything, just me and my empty head, kickin’ it.
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@Ezra @SwampCreature Also no inner monologue over here, I can definitely force it out, but by default it hasn't happened at least in over a decade. Most of my thinking revolves around images/videos or just concepts and how they relate to each other making it real easy for me to lose my train of thought when speaking because I found a weird connection that I kept exploring instead of having a nice voice that would've told me what to say.
I wouldn't be jealous though because it's not like it's all nice and relaxing due to its absence: my brain decided to replace it with constantly playing music and it's inescapable. I think I broke my brain in high school the times I had to spend potentially >1 hour sitting at my desk doing nothing (no phone, no book, no sleeping) after handing in an exam, and I figured a great way would be to try to play songs like Stairway to Heaven in my head to see how accurately I could get to the ~8 minute mark over and over.
Now it translates to me at 3am having the bass notes from Super Rich Kids by Frank Ocean echoing in my head, on the verge of tears cause I just want to go to sleep.
@mianngu That's a great question
I guess it depends on whether I can repeat it over and over or just one time. I'm going to assume it's a one-time repeat, because if I could do it over and over, I'd have to find a day where I made a lot of significant choices that had instant outcomes (within the same day) all of which I wanted to explore; and I can't think of one off the top of my head.If it was a one-time chance, I'd choose the time a pigeon flew into the exhaust pipe of our tankless gas water heater and we had a carbon monoxide leak in our house. Everyone ended up being fine, but it was reaaaaally scary (for me who had to drag everyone out) and people had to go to the hospital. I'd appreciate being able to just wrap a nice bow on that story by having the issue solved before it became a real problem. Bonus points in that we wouldn't have had to spend a lot of money in now buying a bunch of electric appliances to replace the now-useless gas ones after they shut the gas line to the entire apartment building (can you believe the entire building wasn't up to regulation? And that it's not common for pigeons to just be able to fly into exhaust pipes? Or to not have vents or detectors?).
If you could have any "traditional" superpower for 24 hours, which one would you choose and what would you do?
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@Mariano said in Tell the Truth now!:
If you could have any "traditional" superpower for 24 hours, which one would you choose and what would you do?
I’m always torn between invisibility and super speed. I’d absolutely use either of them to cause trouble (I’m poor, use your imagination) but at least with super speed I’d be able to create an alibi for myself. Couldn’t have been me who robbed that billionaire, I was at this very populated event and have dozens of witnesses who’ll attest to that! The other benefit to super speed would be the time dilation, like...if I were to somehow find myself falling off a cliff (don’t ask me why, just know that it’s absolutely a possibility for me) I would be able to view time so much slower and maybe grab a ledge or something? To be honest I’m not sure how that works really and I’m not brainy enough to learn uhhh physics, or whatever principle governs time and speed. I go fast, that’s all I need to know. Also it would make chores easier which is possibly worth as much to me as robbing billionaires. Might actually be able to do the dishes and the laundry in the same day, imagine that!
Next question: if you could sit front row at any concert, any musician, living or dead, who would you see? Which songs would you want them to play? Who would you bring?
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@SwampCreature hmmm I would love to go to a Melanie Martinez concert, I haven't had a chance to listen to much of her Portal Era songs but her persona and prosthetics for it are epic and would be amazing to see in concert. The only other concert I've ever been to has been a Weird Al concert in High School so going to any concert would be a big deal for me LOL. I would want to bring my close group of friends and we would likely dress up to be on theme :3
My question: What was something you were really into growing up but may have been made to feel "weird" because of it?
EX: I was/am really into Folklore/Fae but you know how middle/highschool age kids can be
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@Kismet I was really into writing fancfiction about anime, specifically Gundam Wing and Sailor Moon, to the extent that I created characters. These characters now have their own worlds and storyline sitting in draft files on my computer.
My question is if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you prefer to be?
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@ae-writer85 first of all, I wanna say that I also totally did this lol. I wrote in characters for Yu Yu Hakusho and Rouroni Kenshin and DBZ lol. Glad I'm not the only one!
If I could be anywhere in the world.... well I think that depends on a couple things. Like, as far as places I have been to before, I wish I could go back to Germany. I absolutely loved Tuebingen and I would love to go back to carefree days walking in the town center, getting crepes, and exploring shops.
But, I have heard, though haven't been, that Finland is a wonderful place to live, though it is a challenge to move to another country. I have also heard great things about life in the Netherlands so I guess I just need to be in Europe lol.
My question is, what is one creature (mammal/reptile/insect/whatever) you wish you could have as a pet, if it were safe and legal have?
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@Ezra DBZ was fun, too. My friends weren't as into it, so the fancfiction didn't take off there.
As for the pet...an axolotl seems really cool.
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@Ezra Oh!!! I talk about this all the time! I wish it were safe, humane, and legal to have a pet bat. They’re sooooo cool and cute (even the ones with weird faces) and I could build a little hutch with a wire grid ceiling for them to hang upside down from and it would be so awesome!!! I also really want to have a goat someday, which I know is actually somewhat feasible, just not any time in my immediate future. I would build the goat a jungle gym in my yard!
My question is: if you could sit down for lunch/tea/whatever with one famous person, living or dead, who would you choose?
(Mine would be Anthony Bourdain, 100%, no contest)
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@SwampCreature we should try to find a bat sanctuary to hang out at! I love bats too. I want to have enough property to have a bat house^-^
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@Ezra I’ve looked into bat sanctuaries (me and equally bat-obsessed partner really want to visit one) and the only one I’ve been able to find looks great - lots of cute, happy, well cared-for bats that you can hand feed - but it’s in Fascist Florida so my queer nb ass will not be making a visit any time soon. It’s a shame there aren’t many more because I think lots of people would be interested! Bats are cool!
