Which thoughts wreck your head?

iamnothim

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Hrududu

What does a blind persons dreams look like? That got me thinking for a while. What really wrecked my head was when I started to wonder what a deaf person's stream of consciousness sounded like.

Quazzie

iamnothim wrote: »

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Spidey-sense FTW

Earthhorse

iamnothim wrote: »

Try and imagine a sixth (or seventh) sense. Not seeing hearing tasting smelling or feeling - completely different but just as distinct as these are from one another. I'm convinced it's impossible.

Balance.

rhapsody!

Hrududu wrote: »

What does a blind persons dreams look like? That got me thinking for a while. What really wrecked my head was when I started to wonder what a deaf person's stream of consciousness sounded like.

Has anyone actually thought of asking a blind person what their dreams are? :P

I've always wondered about it aswell.

mollydolly271

i hate trying to make mt mind go blank its impossile try it and yes you have to be awake

seamus

rhapsody! wrote: »

Has anyone actually thought of asking a blind person what their dreams are? :P

I guess it would depend on the blind person tbh.

If they'd been blind since birth, then I'd imagine that in the absence of any experience of visual stimuli, their dreams would take place almost exclusively with them being blind (perhaps with some colours and fuzzy stuff that they can't recognise).

Remember that someone who's been blind since birth has no idea what it's like to see - just like we have no idea what it's like to be a bat and use echolocation. Do you ever dream in echolocation? No. So why would a blind person dream visually?

If they went blind after having been able to see, I'd imagine that their dreams are similar to normal people, but perhaps with even more distortion - they would have to form mental images about what new people places and things looked like, which would no doubt be different from reality. There were would also be a degenerative effect on existing memories - what they remember people looking like would change continually down the years. Have you ever tried to think about someone from your past (say Primary school), then looked at a picture of them and realised that they looked completely different to what you remember?

Captain Ginger

Captain Ginger wrote: »

Well for some people trying to think how the universe began ".

Yeah that annoys the **** out of me ^

Earthhorse

seamus wrote: »

Remember that someone who's been blind since birth has no idea what it's like to see - just like we have no idea what it's like to be a bat and use echolocation.

And we're back to epiphenomenal qualia. Bam! Just like that.

seamus

Earthhorse wrote: »

And we're back to epiphenomenal qualia. Bam! Just like that.

Procasinator

A few people talking about blind people remind me of this recent study:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-victory12-2008aug12,0,4074920.story

It's interesting to see that the traditional victory celebration - thrusting the arms in the air - is hard-wired into us.

Makes you wonder about what things are nature vs. nurture, and what do we learn by example and what do we just know.

echter

Trying to think of nothing, not like clearing my head just trying to think of what would it be like if there was nothing, no earth no solar system, no universe :eek:.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Anything, and I mean anything to do with physics, a friend who's quite into it tried to explain some of the more interesting theories to me once. Unstoppable forces and immovable objects, unified field theories, all that jazz. I came away from the conversation with the vague idea that everything's made of string. Which amuses me more than it wrecks my head but still like...string?

Following on from that in a way, there's the whole colour/pain, impossible to experience the world objectively etc thing, and following on from that...what if science isn't real????

Mousie

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

I agreed wholeheartedly (sp?) ahhh you know what i mean

shenanigans1982

Is this it?...I mean your life, does it start when you are concieved and end when you die?..I am not religious and don't believe in the whole idea of heaven but think it would be cool if there was something after you die.....like reincarnation.

This and a lot of other questions related to it that I can't write down annoy me.

Call Me Jimmy

I think reincarnation in a sense is sort of possible. Not in the traditional "I will come back as a badger" sense because if you're a badger you're obviously not you (unless you're a badger but still you would "come back as" another badger). Same goes for the crap about doing bad things so ye come back as Pighead or something. It's hard to explain but simply the fact that your consciousness ends and another begins, the mere fact that that happens sort of wrecks my head.

Sam Vimes

whiskeyman wrote: »

On the colour vibe, I always used to wonder if colours I saw were the same that you saw.
Like, I see grass as green, but what if you see it as blue, but think it's 'green'? As in, blue is your green... and other colours are messed up, but seem perfect to everyone, even though they could be different?
How are either of us to know, if that's all we know?
Understand?
Confused?
Welcome to my world...

well i'm colour blind so i know i don't see the world the same way you do, unless you see red as red and green as red, or occasionally both as green depending on the shade

badgerbadger

Minus infinity

newballsplease

why rangers fans dont want their own independence and identity, but choose to sing god save the queen at their games.