Can anyone else picture things very well?

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michael517
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11 Sep 2015, 8:34 am

I don't need an MP3 player, my mind can do the job for me.



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11 Sep 2015, 12:17 pm

I'm completely a visual/geometric/pattern/abstract thinker.

That's all I do. As a kid, my outward "stims" became inward thought patterns as I grew older.
As I'm sitting there socially disconnected, I'll be doing all kinds of geometric exercises in my head.
I taught myself how to translate shapes from one dimension to another, and starting pushing myself to be able to visualize 4D & 5D geometry, and things like non-linear timespace.
It sounds like sci-fi, but hey, an autistic caught up in their head all day for decades can come up some interesting stuff.
It all became my "aspie obsession".....my "savant skill". I have spent much of my life self learning all kinds of related topics, as any "aspie" would. Take education into your own hands and you can discover some amazing stuff.

Only problem is, our language is not very compatible with some of the geometries I am visualizing.
That's why I need to write some software, a computer application is like a mathematical proof, it doesn't run if the proof doesn't solve.

So now after years of practice and self training, I have developed what I would call a "holographic memory".
When I think of things, I get complete structural breakdowns, movement ranges, and layers of abstract information associated with different parts.
years of working with computer graphics had trained my imagination to be a "Hud" for my brain.

I was only born with a potential for this, it took decades of practice to train my head muscle to do this.
Nothing else to do, I'm not very social, I spend most of my time alone due to sensory stuff.

Kinda wrote and installed my own video game in my imagination. :P
It's my "happy place" :)


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11 Sep 2015, 12:26 pm

^ That's so coooool. :o



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11 Sep 2015, 2:17 pm

Yes, I can do this. It helps me understand the inner workings in quantum processes.



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11 Sep 2015, 2:38 pm

I can't visualize to save my soul.


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