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From: john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech>
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Subject: Re: Visualizing
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:39:46 -0700
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On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:04:13 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:08:34 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Phil Hobbs
><pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote in
><vbf5ti$s3c0$2@dont-email.me>:
>
>>john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was driving and listening to the local mostly-annoying NPR radio
>>> station, but they had an interesting interview with a book author. It
>>> was about his novel or some poetry or something.
>>> 
>>> What was interesting was his recalling a conversation that he'd had
>>> with his wife. She was takling about a plant or something and asked
>>> him to visualize it. He was astounded that she, or anyone, could close
>>> their eyes and *see* something they were thinking about. 
>>> 
>>> I was shocked to learn that there are people who can't form a mental
>>> visual image.
>>> 
>>> Close your eyes and consider a nice white ceramic dinner plate with a
>>> beautiful deep red apple sitting in the center. Can you see it? From
>>> the side and from the top? Do you see the stem? The colors? Imagine it
>>> slowly rotating? See the fruit fly?
>>> 
>>> If the world is divided between people who can visualise and people
>>> who can't, that could explain a great deal.
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>Or people who have a dialogue going on in their heads all the time.
>>Apparently that’s most people. 
>
>I never had that.
>I do 2 hours of meditation a day.

But you could sleep for those two hours!