was anybody else real distressed by imagination as a kid? like, you imagine something and get fixated on "where" the imagined object was? like wtf does it consist of? how the hell am I seeing it if it has no location or weight? what the absolute FUCK is my mind doing??!?
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You, maybe others, might like this interview I did about my own aphantasia, which includes talking about nature of mind, of memory, of dreams, of creativity, psychedelic drug use, more.
readingpokertells.video/blog/interview
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My mom told me dragons were just in my imagination so I thought they were unique to me. Like how could other people imagine them if they were in *my* imagination.
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As a Schizoaffective, I don't bother myself with that. I had an "overactive imagination" when I was a kid but now I know what it really is. Seeing/hearing things that aren't there make no sense so why bother with the also imagined physics behind them?
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No, I don't have a very visual imagination. Mostly the images my mind conjures up are vague and unstable, and clearly not real.
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Yeah all the time. I think it's the ignorance of childhood unable to deal with the indoctrination into materialist/christian culture. The deep mind knows it's wrong but the conscious mind is unable to resolve the paradox. Try talking to kids about reality, gets weird quick.
