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i remember being a kid and being FREAKED i could visualize things. I would visualize a pink heart on a black background and it wigged me the fuck out. I was like, where the HELL is this heart? WHY can I see it if it's not in front of me? whdat the FUCK is going ON

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i spent a ton of hours meditating on the pink heart trying to figure out what and where it was. I developed all sorts of theories about the properties of this heart and how it managed to exist but none of the theories felt good. This plagued me for yeaaars.

6:28 AM · Sep 6, 2020

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what (if anything) did you conclude in the end?

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Sounds like some Wheel of Time thing Meditating on an image of a flame and feeding all your thoughts into it until all that's left is the fire

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I am pretty certain that you could divide people into 2 real groups where some had incredible imaginations (you) and some struggled to picture anything. (Me).

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A weird post about repairing broken things.

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If I can just make things up and visualize them as if they were real, who knows how many people throughout history have been doing so all along, and never knew the difference?

Simon Pepin Lehalleur

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Have you read Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back? In Chapter 14, Consciousness as an Evolved User-Illusion, he ruminates on this subject. Why did it stop plaguing you, if it did? Developed a satisfying theory?

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Well? Did you find the pink heart?

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I can do that too, except I never really got wigged out by it. Also, I'm autistic.

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I was similarly freaked out by pushing my hands against my eyes with some force for varying lengths of time. If you left your eyes closed the blood rushing back in would create all kinds of weird patterns when you removed your hands.

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