Imagine not having #mental #imagery (not the best wording, I know)

#aphantasia #brain

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00311-7

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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.

No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.

I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.

The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.

It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.

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Phantasia is what we call the ability to visualise something in your head. If I say blue umbrella with a bent handle you might see an image in your mind. Or, you might, like I do, not see anything.

While most people have some degree of phantasia, I lie much closer to the #aphantasia side of the spectrum. I do not see an umbrella. I do not see blue. I understand what it would look like, but I cannot visualise it. At best, for certain things, I might have what could be described as a faint echo after image that immediately goes away.

I cannot visualise things, places or people. No, not even the face of my wife that I have known for almost 20 years or those of my kids.

It's not a disability, I function perfectly fine. And while I'm not that good at drawing, I'd rather blame lack of trying than any mental deficiency. It just is. And while you might consider it weird not to be able to conjure images at will, I find it just as weird that you might be able to.

This chart documents one of humanity’s greatest achievements, in my view.

We just lived through the fastest population growth in human history.

It would have been impressive if food supplies had merely kept pace — but on every continent, they grew even faster than the population.

Re #introduction

Hi all, I am Rohit. I am not new here, but today I moved my old account on Fosstodon @swatantra to this new one. Necessarily not for a very good reason other than all my other socials are with my full name, so I decided to do the same on Mastodon.

I am a computational biologist by profession with interests in the outdoors, ham radio, tilde, blogging, youtubing, and FOSS.

I am originally from India, but I now live in MD, USA, with my wife and two daughters.

In case you didn't know, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon

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We had to shift servers when the one we were on got deleted without warning a month ago. We lost our 4000 followers and had to start from scratch, so it would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you everyone for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉