What is it for?

  • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’ll chuck in my answer since I’ve been asked this before too.

    I don’t “see” a stapler. I perceive a future state where the pages are stapled. This does appear visually in my mind but not a a a picture of stapled pages rather a set of symbols that incorporate the task “to staple” into the other things that I am concerned with at the point of thinking about that task.

    “Set of symbols?” Is probably your follow up question - yes, geometry or iconography that describe the path from here to that future state where that pages are stapled.

    That’s the best I can do. None of this is literally narrated in my mind, however typing this out to you each sentence is “auditioned” as I imagine I am speaking it to you.

    • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      That is fascinating! And different than I’ve heard described elsewhere by either the “non-visual” or “non-verbal” thinkers. I think I am pretty generic, when I think of a stapler I literally see a red swingline stapler floating in a void like in a 3d modeling program (that stapler specifically due to the movie Office Space, and therefore I also own one).

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          10 months ago

          Makes total sense to me that you think this way then.

          I teach middle school and I think mostly verbally with pictures thrown in.

          “I should staple this” plays in my head and I have a dreamlike image of a stapler I’m looking for, or perhaps its location. If I focus, I can make those pictures very vivid, but usually they aren’t in my day to day.

          I talk to myself in my head literally non-stop. It’s a full day dialogue with myself - which I suppose makes it a monologue. But it’s pretty involved with a lot of back and forth.

          • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            It’s so interesting. I imagine your experience is something like Venoms relationship with Eddie Brock which cracks me up!