Terribly Unoblivious

Hot Takes - Swinging at Sports Myths and Visualizing the Mind's Eye

March 01, 2024 Brad Child & Dylan Steil Episode 23
Hot Takes - Swinging at Sports Myths and Visualizing the Mind's Eye
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Terribly Unoblivious
Hot Takes - Swinging at Sports Myths and Visualizing the Mind's Eye
Mar 01, 2024 Episode 23
Brad Child & Dylan Steil

Hey Truth-Seekers and Vibes-Catchers, it's Brad and Dylan taking you on a wild ride through the tangled web of sports myths and life's quirks! Ever been coached with well-meaning but misguided tips? We're swinging for the fences as we debunk common sports advice that's tripping up young athletes. Picture this: your little leaguer's coach yelling "Keep that back elbow up!" – we'll tell you why that's not always a home run. And for the golfers out there, we're putting the brakes on the "slow your swing" mantra. So, buckle up for a hilarious journey that's as much about busting myths as it is about cracking jokes.

Navigating the seas of self-reflection, we drop anchor at a cozy cove of hot takes and ponder whether we're all just dodging our own issues by playing 'fixer' in someone else's story. We wade into the philosophical waters of reincarnation, the holiness of cows, and the saga of Annie the cat – a feisty ball of fur that's stolen our hearts. Our banter bounces from the profound to the playful, inviting you to reflect on your own life while we challenge each other's perspectives – all without losing our sense of humor.

Finally, we explore the enigmatic shores of aphantasia and the complexities of mental imagery – or the lack thereof. Have you ever considered how a blood transfusion might change the way you see the world? Or why some people can't picture a face in their mind's eye? We dive into these mind-bending topics, discuss our own experiences with dreams and internal dialogue, and marvel at the artistic prowess of sketch artists. As we wrap this episode, we leave you with a heartfelt reminder to focus on the positives and appreciate life's rich tapestry, all while sharing a laugh and bidding you a cheery farewell. Now, go seize the day and join us for a session that promises to enlighten and entertain!

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Hey Truth-Seekers and Vibes-Catchers, it's Brad and Dylan taking you on a wild ride through the tangled web of sports myths and life's quirks! Ever been coached with well-meaning but misguided tips? We're swinging for the fences as we debunk common sports advice that's tripping up young athletes. Picture this: your little leaguer's coach yelling "Keep that back elbow up!" – we'll tell you why that's not always a home run. And for the golfers out there, we're putting the brakes on the "slow your swing" mantra. So, buckle up for a hilarious journey that's as much about busting myths as it is about cracking jokes.

Navigating the seas of self-reflection, we drop anchor at a cozy cove of hot takes and ponder whether we're all just dodging our own issues by playing 'fixer' in someone else's story. We wade into the philosophical waters of reincarnation, the holiness of cows, and the saga of Annie the cat – a feisty ball of fur that's stolen our hearts. Our banter bounces from the profound to the playful, inviting you to reflect on your own life while we challenge each other's perspectives – all without losing our sense of humor.

Finally, we explore the enigmatic shores of aphantasia and the complexities of mental imagery – or the lack thereof. Have you ever considered how a blood transfusion might change the way you see the world? Or why some people can't picture a face in their mind's eye? We dive into these mind-bending topics, discuss our own experiences with dreams and internal dialogue, and marvel at the artistic prowess of sketch artists. As we wrap this episode, we leave you with a heartfelt reminder to focus on the positives and appreciate life's rich tapestry, all while sharing a laugh and bidding you a cheery farewell. Now, go seize the day and join us for a session that promises to enlighten and entertain!

Speaker 1:

On a desolate, frozen tundra, surrounded by mindless, brain numbing cold takes. Two bros trek through the nothingness to bring hope to a new generation. You are about to experience brad and dylan's hot takes. Here we go again. Again we're going. Let's do it, do it good, lick this. This is like my neck, every my back. Why you have to ruin every Literally first 30 seconds, sorry, every time. How else are you supposed to intro? Well, you got a warm-up first. We already, we just, we just did an hour and 15 minutes warm up. Yeah, but you got to do the neck in the back first. I like what you did there. I like what you did there. You silly bitch, that branch, just go for it.

Speaker 1:

Brad child, mm-hmm, that, that, what, what that? Welcome To another episode, veronica Vaughn. Sorry that, veronica Vaughn, I don't know what that means. That's Billy manager. Oh, throw me that koozie please.

Speaker 1:

Or that, um, how hard, as hard as a baseball you want to talk about? What? About a softball? You want to talk about elbows? Yeah, all right. What am I supposed to remind you about again? Yeah, I don't worry about it. Okay, never mind, it's not important, it's just my mental health. Um, don't slip into depression just because you're being contemplative. This is a reminder for you to remind me of tonight. Yeah, yeah, echo chambers We've talked about this before. No, just don't like, slip into the deep dark holes, um, double entendre, like a manage d'etreur, no, okay.

Speaker 1:

Have you ever been driving down the street and seen, saw, uh, seen, seen, see, saw, yep, something that makes you want to scream at the person doing it? Yes, because, hot, take quit telling your motherfucking little leaguers To raise their back elbow when they're swinging a baseball bat. Do you want to get in the fundamentals? Don't do it, okay, just don't do it, okay. I apologize for Whoever was doing this, but I was driving to basketball practice and a Very lovely person was with what I'm assuming was his daughter, daughter and friend or something, mm-hmm, and all I saw was him sticking his elbow up, showing her like, cranking it, pointing to god, yeah, and nothing like pulling that right shoulder down and just swinging for the gods. And I just wanted to be like that's not important. It's not important, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

And I actually, um, when doing winter Clinics or even in my own teams, yeah, especially when they're young, like because seven, six, seven, eight year old, okay, parents love to tell you this put your elbow up. You gotta, you gotta, put your elbow up. You're not gonna hit the ball. You gotta put your elbow up. Do we have to put our elbow up? No, okay, no, elbows, no, no, you know they're misunderstanding what needs to happen. Okay, I wish we had cameras for this episode, but we don't. So imagine, those are expensive. So imagine you're holding a bat Okay, okay, venmo brad, if you guys want cameras, yeah, do that. Okay. And uh, let's say you're holding the bat directly in front of your chest, mid chest, uh-huh, right, okay, now, noted, your elbows are down. Okay, got it. You've just missed the last 20 Balls that your dad threw to you. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

Because you're starting from the middle of your chest and instead of saying what needs to happen, which is your hands need to go back by your ear so that you can start the swing with, the cue became elbow up, yes, but your hands can still be there with your elbow up, correct. So what happens is, all of these kids have their hands in front of their chest, so it's, it's just a bad cue. But the other thing is like, as soon as you start to, so if I, if I In mid chest, my hands are here, all right, and then all they tell me is to put my elbow up. Now I'm in a worse spot. Okay, then I was before, even. Yeah, you're cocked. Now, if my hands are in front of my chest mid, my elbows are pointing down. Okay, and you say, put your hands back by your back, ear, right, so your hands are going to lift up a little bit and they're going to twist towards the backside. Okay, my elbow does come up a little bit, but is it up higher relative to where it started, with my hands here? So my hands are here, my elbows are, you know, there. Now my hands are way up here. My elbows are in the same positions as they were. Is it higher? Yeah, because my hands are higher. Yeah, right, yeah, but it's not elevated. Like, even with my hand.

Speaker 1:

Become a sports podcast. I don't know. I don't know, I wasn't prepared for this. This became a don't tell people bad advice podcast. We've we've addressed this, though. People have this need to be correct and Know everything, and so they just whatever they've heard, they just spouse it.

Speaker 1:

But that is like I don't know why that one sticks, because Everybody's, everyone hears it, everybody says it. It's just that thing. I don't know if I can think of another Like youth sports related thing that is as bad as that. I Hear this thing all the time in golf that drives me nuts which is you got it. You got a. Slow your swing down. And it's like, cool, you do.

Speaker 1:

But then, until you get, I did to golf development and you just see everyone's like, yeah, we got to pick that speed up because the ball is gonna go farther. You're like, oh, so maybe, instead of saying swing down, which really again does nothing, it's like, hey, you've got to get your, you got to get your alignment Dialed in. You've got a and it's, yes, speed we need, we need to slow down for the ability for us to figure out timing. You got timing. Yes, everything I was moving sink, and so let's not just use the blanket cue slow down, let's talk about your timing, yes, but it's easier just to say slow your swing down, yeah, because we actually don't know what we're talking about and so we're just gonna give you a cue because we need to be teachers. But I just I don't understand it because there's not any good outcomes to it. Like Because I watched that girl and she had her elbow pointing at the sky and continued to not hit the ball. It's like that's not the fix, because it's not the problem You're. You're throwing out solutions that aren't actual solutions. Condra's my crazy. Not like couples therapy. No, okay, never mind, I haven't done that yet.

Speaker 1:

Hot take Whoa what that's good? I don't know, are you just throw out? I just say hot take when I don't know what to say. Have you guys ever tried? I don't know. I was trying to think of something funny. I failed douchebag. Well, I was always that.

Speaker 1:

Hmm, so you, you came to me and you said you know what, dylan, we're a little negative. Maybe hot takes can be positive too. No, no, that's not what I said, that's not what. Okay, no, you reiterate it. Yeah, I said Dylan, you fucking asshole. I'm tired of you shitting on everybody all the time. Yes, sorry, everyone, and it's time that I apologize. My fucking nobody. Positive. Shining light to this. Okay, and just lift everyone up. Be the ray, be the ray. To my sugar. I was gonna say Charles. Oh, well, sugar is more loving. What? Yeah, diabetes, cancer. No, give me some sugar, pour some sugar on me. I'm still not sure what those lyrics are. You're glazed down it Me. Okay, this, this took a dive fast. Yeah, my Positive hot take is that you are capable of so much more than you give yourself credit.

Speaker 1:

For. What do you mean? Who you just said you as a blanket. I don't. Yes, you, yeah, that's giving a lot of people credit.

Speaker 1:

I do, hot take, I do. That's not true, listen. No, that's Hi, that's the antithesis and what she's like. This is about everything that we just talked about before. That I know. No, I think it is and I Think it's. I think it's mostly true. I never say a hundred percent true, I think it's mostly true.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, don't speak in absolutes. Mmm, yeah, okay, this is turning into a philosophy podcast. No, mm-hmm. No, no, well, you did it. How did I do that? You're the one talking about. I don't know what's true and not true, what's absolute? I didn't say what I just said.

Speaker 1:

Don't speak in absolutes. Well, don't tell me what to do. How about that Hot take? Don't tell me what to do. Like that, you're the annoying little kid. Yeah, you're just like that little shit that just sometimes always there ready to answer coach's question and be a shed. But I, I do have a A hot take. Hot take, do tell.

Speaker 1:

Brad has a problem with seeing the upside to everybody. Ah, are you a saver? I'm a fixer. Yeah, you're a fixer. Yeah, I'm a fixer. Yeah, why, why do you do that? Um, is it because you want to? You want to be able, you don't want to address the own under your own underlying issues and it's easier for you to project those. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What are we talking about right now? I'm just saying Are you projecting this on me, exactly? Okay, uh, yeah, maybe it was because I was.

Speaker 1:

I was in the past, past lives broken, like you reincarnated into the current broken version and you had previous broken version. Maybe there's going to be subsequent broken versions. Is that multiverse? Or is that your incarnation? Maybe it's? Hmm, it's not reincarnation, because you can't go back in the same body, right, I don't know. Reincarnation is like souls going into. Yeah, you just knew spaces. You reincarnate. Huh, yeah, until you're a cow, and then you're happy. Oh, that's the ultimate man, the cow Until, isn't that Hindu? That's what they don't eat, I thought, like cow is the most sacred. Oh, you're right, according to them. I'm going with. I mean, we just like all those Shinto gods we just learned about. I'm going with. Holy shit, I'm going to go down a rabbit hole and Shinto gods, by the way, I'm going to go with. Sorry, shinto deities.

Speaker 1:

Annie Is the epitome Of the reincarnated good life. Oh my God. From the streets to what she has now. From the streets, dude, she, she, she was. I picked her up at the no kill shells. They're hardcore. They said she was barely alive when they got her on the alleyway. Just, she was out there, just she was meandering needles in her veins. I think so. It's like she got a nasty, nasty meth habit when she was two or three weeks old and then you got any rock, rock up blowing for some rock. That's how I like to imagine my, for me, for me, crack. This isn't the life you deserve. Come on, get it together.

Speaker 1:

I think one of my favorite stories about Annie is when we got her Front's the clock. She has her back. So don't everyone get on. There's a hard or do, or do you know why? Because we don't get emails and I would like to get some. There's a hardcore Population of people that things decline is unethical. Anyway, well, pull your fingernails out. How about that? I wish Gross. No, you don't so terrible, whatever man. So she got her front taken out and you know everyone's like. Well, she's going to be really tired and all these things.

Speaker 1:

And I go to pick her up and like, dude, we've had to. We've had to put Annie down multiple times. I'm like that's one, that's the wrong term. Don't say you put my cat down. We tried to kill her. We tried to kill her. She's coming back and she's like she's a fucking shit, oh God. She won't quit Crawl Like they're like out of surgery, coming out of anesthesia. She won't quit crawling around her cage. She's crawling like I when I went in. She's on the side, she's claws on the wall of this metal cage and she's defying gravity by just looking at me and they're like, yeah, because she's never going to heal, because she just won't, so like we've had to sedate her. You walk in the bed office. It looks like 28 days later, yeah, she is just blood. She is the just. No, I'm good, I'm going to keep doing this.

Speaker 1:

She's a wild one man. She's a wildly coyote. We had a crazy one as well. But yeah, cats man, he's still kicking it. So he's living his best life. He's doing whatever the fuck he wants to Gotham. Yeah, he's a good dude. Yeah, everybody thinks so. He's a guy Like he is just this. Oh, who's the kid that died in the bus in Alaska? The what's the name of that movie? He goes into Alaska, into the, into the wilderness, into the wild, into the wild. Hmm, that book? Yeah, the third year boss, simon birch, crack our book. He's. Yeah, gotham is like that. You know where he likes to. He likes to stop and and meet People and and befriend them and and he's very nice and cordial and tells you a nice story. And then he's like, fuck this place, I'm on in the next wild one and then and then maybe you never see him again and you just wonder what he's up to, hmm, hmm. Speaking of Miss Ogie, we're gonna cross Paul night episodes here.

Speaker 1:

My hot take, finding yourself, is not just getting on an airplane and going to a cool country and walking around for a month or so and being like I'm finding myself. It's like, mmm, I Mean there's some cool experiences. No doubt you're learning, but you're not really growing. I know you're. You're learning cultures and other things, but is it necessarily hard waking up at a hostel and going and having two dollar beers at 11 o'clock in the morning? And I'm not shitting on traveling because I love to travel, but I think you need to have a modicum of responsibility in your life. Finding yourself, hmm, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I've written about this before In terms of like, why do you have to get away to find yourself? Yeah, that's, I think, probably where I'm at is I don't. You don't think that's a you running away. You can, you like, find yourself and we're going away. Do you find me? Obviously there's decompression, there is so, but where's that balance? So, in terms of truly challenging yourself, mm-hmm, you are sometimes taking away the safety nets of Society in your, in your everyday life, and sometimes just all the bullshit that surrounds you and, yeah, trying to put yourself into Maybe a hard situation, maybe just a lonely situation. So you have to deal with yourself only, so you're removing distractions from your life, which is not traveling, anything that's actually happening. I think it can happen for some people, some people, yeah, but if you're going to like all the party hostels and you're on the beach and you're going all like the moon parties, yeah, that might be more drug related, which can also be a way of finding yourself.

Speaker 1:

The thing that always really I Interest me and I wish they would do studies on it, maybe they have, and I just haven't read them Is how everyone, jesus is always in jail. You know like people always find them there. Yeah, wow, I never thought about that one. Why is he there so much? Hmm, hmm, yeah, like, how come he's not like Home Depot? It's carpet? Maybe they got more fiddles in jail? No, what, that's the devil, not the same? No, it's not the same. I'm just asking man, jesus, it was Johnny, not Jesus Remember you? Sure, oh sure I Would. I would remember. Okay, I remember those. Jesus went down to Georgia and it's not. That sounds like an awesome song. Hey, somebody, somebody, do that.

Speaker 1:

Volver, volver, l Ray great songs I remember in the early days of your mom's house podcast, and they have what can only be considered an army of listeners, even when it was on the smaller side. Yeah, because they're insane. They are in the most fun way. Yeah, tom, christian, but they have. They always had just Talented people that listen, and so they would. They would get these songs constantly where they would take soundbites and clips or they Would remake something and then they would send them to them and they're just like. These are fucking amazing. And it happened just week after week after week. So if somebody can you know, let's just say, three years from now, when we have somebody that is a Talented musical listener, hmm, please make. Haze's went down to Georgia and just remake that for me and do your best.

Speaker 1:

Jesus went down to Jorge. Yeah, wait, either one either you pick, you pick, you pick both will be good. Oh, all right, I think so. Wait, so that wasn't positive. Not finding yourself. Finding yourself? Yeah, okay, you got positive one? No, nothing. Do you think good people still exist to find good? Oh, that's the problem. Right, there's an existential crisis out there about morality. I Mean, if we really want to go down this we can talk about it is moral in the moment. What is moral in the moment exactly? Remember when we used to kill people in the gladiator Gladiatorinas and we was like this is cool and fun and ethical, and now it's like, oh my god, that's terrible. Yeah, it was cool at one point. Yeah, I mean, some people still do that and they just get paid for it. So, michael Vick, no, oh, that was a dog ring. That was a dog ring. Yeah, which is also way fair. I mean, they moved kids and lockers. Yeah, that was a weird time when everyone was starting to talk about that trafficking.

Speaker 1:

Hot, take hi you. You cannot trust the tiktok. You got bamboozled by tiktok the other day. It happens all time. You were like oh, russia said that the Alaska sale yeah, I did, verified false. Yep, I didn't say those. So how do you come out with this? Oh, hi, mighty take, I don't chose tiktok and that's like you got bamboozled the other day. Yeah, I didn't look into it.

Speaker 1:

What, oh my god, what is this podcast about? Doing your research? When's the bullshit meter go off? Where's the flag? But I got to do all the research. I just did research. That one thing. That's what's being responsible. It's all it is about. But you did it, you did it for me, I did, I looked it up and I verified it false and I didn't. And you get a bad information to our listeners. What happens if they know it? And because we talked about it, why was it? They turn the podcast off before what you said it and then click stop. Yeah, that's really gonna hurt, really gonna hurt them.

Speaker 1:

I think in the Putin doesn't like everyone probably makes. You're like this big pro Biden Manchurian candidate Trumper. We don't even know what you are. That's the. That's the confusing part. I don't like it. Are we sure? Are we sure, that's what people think. I don't know. I still look at the buzz sprout I. I look at the buzz sprout stats and I'm like, nope, not true, not true, not true I I. There's no way that many people okay.

Speaker 1:

So I saw this video and then my buddy also sent it to me, which leads me to believe that he also thinks it's true. And it was about a Container ship investment, right. So they're like what? Hmm, what's the investment? Look like if we want to try to try to international court on water. No, not, we're not talking. What are we talking about? Piracy, murder, you're talking about sex ring. No, oh, no, no, no, we're shipping, we're shipping goods. Shipping goods, actual goods, not children, not people, okay, moving on.

Speaker 1:

And so they say, okay, how much money can you make from owning a shipping vessel, transcontinental, right, and they. And then they go through this. Is this one of those finance bro things? Words, like I think it was, but it was like incognito, because there wasn't a bro on it, it was just the ship. All you got to do get a loan for a billion dollars, yeah. Get a boat, yeah, and then you can make a billion dollars, yeah, it's like what? That's what it was. That's what it was. And Wow, they don't give you any context, they just give you numbers.

Speaker 1:

So then it's like it's it's we talked about this before the misinformation. It's like misinformation is worse than disinformation. Guess what, if you're a millionaire, you're dead broke. I did, I think that was my favorite. I did comment on that video and say, if I'm broke, then if I'm actually broke, then what am I? If I have a million dollars, I'm broke, but if I'm actually broke, then what am I? Yeah, fuck, a millionaire. Is this Opposite? The clickbaits got an unbelievable. I love it.

Speaker 1:

So the ship you buy the ship for $200 million it's. They went like with the biggest, like what's one of the biggest, so I go big or go home and it holds 20,000 containers or something along those lines, and if you fill each container, it's worth this much money, right. And so they go through all the math and and they leave out like, okay, well, it's only 80% filled, because that's reasonable, and all this. So they say on your first trip across the ocean, not only do you pay for the ship, but you make like $200 million on top of that. And your first thought is just like why wouldn't everyone own a container ship, mm-hmm. And then maybe that's. And then later I saw a mafia or what they call it mafia run. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like the flat boats and peaky blinders, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And so then a guy came out, did the rebuttal and that's not actually how that works. How's it work that? It works when you use real numbers and not just made up numbers. So it was basically a finance bro thing. So it's, the finance bros will be like you have a million dollars, right, and then how do you, how do you capitalize, use that as toilet paper, go to the bank, get a billion dollars. You find you find a friend Mm-hmm that will just trade you ten million dollars for it. Mm-hmm, that's it. That's that easy. I don't know why you guys are so dumb. Figure it out. I feel like you finance broed me.

Speaker 1:

You were like yeah, man, we just need a podcast rig Bullshit. I wanted to do it on the phone. Yeah, this voice wasn't going on the phone. Yeah, I was like phone a friend. Yeah, we can do this. I have this nifty memo like voice memo thing on my phone. You can just do that. Yeah, we just do that.

Speaker 1:

But now when we get a new listener, they're like hey, you sound really good. I don't like any stuff you talk about, but, yeah, I think we're missing the mark on our audience. Audio quality is good, audio is great. I mean, that's really what we're going for at the end of the day. I think really we're in the wrong country.

Speaker 1:

Where should we mark it too? Russia, ukraine? What are those Scandinavian countries? I like that, norway, or like the. Where are they? Eastern Germany countries? Was that like Latvia? Those kind of places, grand Budapest Hotel Some of those places are really neat.

Speaker 1:

Let's go to Croatia. I think Croatia is nice. They've got nice water features. Yeah, yeah, they got nice beach. Oh, okay, I don't really like the beach. What? Nothing. Oh, you're a mountain guy. I mean I like the beach, it's fine. I mean you're dainty. You don't even do well in altitude. I can't. I can't do altitude or big waves Fragile, you're just a sub-part human, it's fine.

Speaker 1:

I got somebody else's blood in me, though. What? Yeah, mine Blood transfusion, oh, yeah, everything about that. I mean I gave somebody blood, so they have somebody else in me. They have my blood type now and part of you lives in somebody else. Yeah, that's the weird part Is they have my blood type now. I think they pick up some other. Do you think they made me a better person? No, do you think I got the blood of a better person? That's why I'm a better person than I was. Can you agree that I'm a better person than I was? Timeline in context, timeline in examples. So we're on two plus years of transfusion. Yeah, new blood, yeah, also I'm going to bring it up here, because we need to do this sometime where we go into psychedelics and near-death experiences. That's an interesting thing to me.

Speaker 1:

But post Joe Rogan, jesus Christ, post-psychedelic, post-posteroids, post-second surgery, after coming out of just immense pain, and I was conscious, lucid, and every time I would blink or shut my eyes, I would see vivid portraits of not nice faces. Like what were you trying to confront? What was going on? I don't know. Yes, you do. No, I don't Just think about it. I think I Initially I thought maybe I dipped my toe into hell for a second. Do you think you'd go to hell? Um, yummy, no more deities, we're moving on.

Speaker 1:

But now, actually, on the way over here, I was thinking what if it was the blood that I got that made me see the faces? It's your vampire. No, you count Chocula. One, two. Oh, that's count, not Chocula. Oh, sesame Street Mmm, yeah, that's count the count. I like Sesame Street, but maybe, yeah, maybe, like my body was either absorbing it or trying to refuse it. It's probably a combination of bowls. So that's interesting, that's all that's it. I don't know. I thought it was interesting.

Speaker 1:

Sure, do you do that Like, can you close your eyes and see something vividly? Yeah, I don't do it very often. Somebody we were talking about, who was talking about this, there's five levels. There's five levels of imagination or like vividness, and you can. I don't know the guy. I was who he, it's five, the highest Five being like you can see super vivid items. It's like I can see extreme detail, but when I think about people, I don't see faces. Okay, I can do everything, but faces I can have. That's what's weird. Like, if I close my eyes right now and try to Like you're sitting in front of me and I try to envision your face, yeah, it doesn't register.

Speaker 1:

And the weird thing about this was like I was looking at portraits of people, like that's how clear it was, and every time I would blink it was a different one. Yeah, and when I realized that I was doing it, I would start trying to like blink faster to see if it would stop happening. And then they just kept showing up and I was like I'm dead, I'm dying, what is it? I'm trying to, yes, but I didn't, or did I? Did I die? And I just I'm a new, better version. You didn't die, you don't know that. I said do You're right here? Am I that?

Speaker 1:

Aphantasia, what it's like when you can't see images in your mind. That's hard to go. So there's five levels and it's so. This is when you can't see. Yeah, well, there's levels to it. Aphantasia, yeah, okay, wait, is this like when people don't have internal dialogue? I think it's the visual version of it. Okay, interesting, I might have a little bit of this. No image, yeah, no image at all. I only know Dim and vague image.

Speaker 1:

Modern, realistic, of vivid, realistic, of reasonably vivid, perfectly realistic, as vivid, as real, seeing. I think probably artists probably fall into that fifth category. It's a supposition I can make. Yeah, but you do have dreams every once in a while. That was Intense. You have that Of dreams, do you dream? Yeah, hard Weird, didn't need that detail.

Speaker 1:

No, they're just super, super intense. Oh, got it. No, fair, but friend or relative. Scenario one. The first section asked the participants to think of some friend or relative. No can do, scored one off. Oh for the quit. Yeah, yeah, think of that. I probably fall on the higher level of that, like if I I would say faces are the hardest. Faces are the hardest. But I think it's because I'm like visualizing so much and it's like that's the least important detail. But also, isn't that crazy that they can still do sketch artists? Some people can, yeah.

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Other times you have you catch the villain and then you go back to the sketch artist and you're like, hey, that's a glass, that's just a water glass. That doesn't look anything like him. That's a fucking egg with glasses on Whoopsie, this was the wrong version of Clue. Yeah. Then you end up with the or. They describe the perfect person, but it's not. It's not the villain. No, this is it. This guy looks exactly like the sketch. Yeah, but that's the wrong guy. Got the sketch right. Got the sketch right. That's a problem. New boots, same villain. Yeah, I'm a little bit of a goofing God, all right. Well, I'm a lot of positivity. This was rough. I'm going to have to do better at it. Yeah, do we though? Yeah, I'm going to look for the good and what? Whom Things, the world, the items. Why, huh? Why would we? Because you have to nurture the things that you want to see more of. Right, okay, right, I guess I mean yeah, okay, let's go with that. Okay, wait, you're still here, it's over. Go home Now, right.

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