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  • I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand hypnosis.

    I don’t really dream that much. I normally fall asleep and then just wake up. I’ve had dreams before and I can’t say that I saw images or not. I want to say that I did see images because I would describe them as being very vivid and real like almost like I was experiencing it rather than just thinking. But when I wake up I cannot recall any of the images but know how the things in the dream looked and would recall them like I saw something in the real world.

    But if my muscles are relaxed how is that supposed to put my brain in a relaxed state?


  • It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

    It’s not a coincidence that the word image is in the word imagination. Most people image to imagine.

    We have learned you don’t need to image to imagine. If you would have asked me awhile ago if I saw images in my head I would have said yes because I can hold details of an image in my head and “see” it. It’s like I’m imagining an image to imagine.

    Just like I can imagine what would happen if you placed a ball at the top of a hill and let go. I don’t need to see images or a video to “imagine” the ball is going to roll down the hill.

    Phantasia is a word used by Aristotle to describe “mental images”. What is thought of as “imagining”. He described it as a mind’s eye.

    Imagining is the term that is wrongly named. It could be used for only processing thinking with images but like you said you “imagine”. I have aphantasia and I’m just “thinking” about the ball and it rolling down the hill, not imaging it doing it in my head.


  • I have aphantasia.

    Personally I never thought being hypnotized was possible for me

    When someone says “Imagine an apple” I think of the concept or idea of an apple. I would need them or me to give more details about what this imaginary apple has. Green/red, leaf/no leaf, connected to tree or not.

    The more details I add the more I have to think about it to hold all the details together.

    Example, I know my house very well. I can tell you every detail I remember about my house. But if you told me to imagine your house and just threw details at me I wouldn’t be able to remember the majority of them. If I physically walked through your house I could remember a ton of details.

    Feel free to ask any questions!


  • As an aphant I cannot begin to imagine salivating by thinking of biting a lemon.

    I believe some aphants can have smell and taste memories since it only has to do with a lack of visual imagine. Just like some cannot hear inner speech.

    I cannot say it’s impossible but I’ve never believed in hypnotizism.




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    The sun is round, the moon is round, the stars are round

    Biconvex vs Globe should be the original argument. Disc vs Ball.

    Do flat earthers think of sharp edged biconvex earth? Like that would have had to be the case if you could sail off it.

    Do they think that it’s like a Minecraft world where they could see the dirt under the grass at the edge?

    Humans had to explore the globe W-E or E-W. No practical way early to cross a frozen tundra and then sail going N-S or S-N.

    We would have found out a lot quicker in human history if the polar caps didn’t exist.

    “Go around” round. It is almost like it is intuitive that the earth is round.

    What’s happening at the edge is what is the argument. Everyone knows where they are standing is flat. (Which I think is your point)

    You’d have to come up with a plausible explanation of what could happen. Like “You’d sail off into a void”

    Yet a globe has no edges and doesn’t need a plausible explanation about a weird edge of the earth.

    It should have aways rested that you had to prove the earth wasn’t a ball.


  • A real ID does not mean US citizen. Non-US citizens can receive a real ID. It just proves you are a lawful resident in the US.

    Same for drivers license and ID card.

    A birth certificate does no good on it’s own. And verifying a birth certificate is another can of worms. If it can only be the official government issued one? Then you get into the whole birth right citizen thing. You can easily be a US citizen without being born in US.

    Passport would be the closest thing to a true “Citizen ID”. US Nationals can receive a US passport without being citizens.

    Citizenship certificates would fix the birth certificate problem of US citizens being born outside of the states. However they cost 1k+. Maybe they can make them cheaper or hand them out?

    It’s laughable how bad identification is in the US. We still use social security numbers.

    I wouldn’t be against Voting IDs if everyone was issued one for free and replacements were easy and inexpensive to obtain.





  • Money or currency is a way to represent value

    It is a medium of exchange

    Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.

    So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.

    It facilitates trade

    Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question



  • You’re assuming people who are forced to buy into the suburban hell have a choice.

    If a person had a choice between a 100k house in a suburban hell or a 100k house in secluded heaven. That they pick the suburban hell.

    Have you seen the housing market in the US?

    It’s also funny how “Suburban” meaning has changed. It’s supposed to be non-urban.

    But with these “suburban” neighborhoods in cities. It has basically became a word for a neighborhood with houses built next to each other and less about where it’s located.

    Suburbs use to be an inexpensive option as opposed to urban living.



  • I have been on this planet for a while and I have only seen the night sky like the last picture driving through Texas in the middle of nowhere.

    Power going out in a city isn’t enough to stop the light population from surrounding areas. It would have to be the only city around for miles and it would have to be a full power loss.

    I would say most people have never came close to seeing an uncountable amount of stars in the sky.

    I live in a medium sized city that is 30 minutes from a large city. I can count like a dozen stars in the sky. If we lose power the sky doesn’t magically change to look like it was in Texas. Honestly, I don’t remember it changing at all.


  • The idea was as she got older he wouldn’t date younger than her current age. Weird and creepy but not the weird and creepy way you think.

    “In 3 years when you’re 20 I won’t be dating an 18-year-old.”

    This was in 2006

    Trump married Melenia in 2005

    So imagine saying this after being married to your wife for a year.

    Here’s another quote of him saying he has no age limit only to back track and then “weaved” to bring up another senator’s folly to divert attention on what he almost just let get confirmed.

    Things got a little weird after co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump if he had “an age limit.”

    Trump fumbled a bit at the response.

    “If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age li—” Trump said, while Quivers asked him “the upper bracket” of his limit.