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Bah, I just make sure I step on an equal number of cracks with my left and right feet!
Gale17 said:i usually avoid cracks in the sidewalk, but its not noticable. sometimes, to make sure I'm not OCD though, i delibrately step on all the cracks i see. kinda a weird habit i guess...
Hurkyl said:Bah, I just make sure I step on an equal number of cracks with my left and right feet!
I've done this too. Whenever I feel like some quirky, weird little personal taboo is getting too pronounced I just start doing the opposite for a while.Gale17 said:sometimes, to make sure I'm not OCD though, i delibrately step on all the cracks i see.
... which is itself rather quirky...zoobyshoe said:I've done this too. Whenever I feel like some quirky, weird little personal taboo is getting too pronounced I just start doing the opposite for a while.
This is weird, because not half an hour ago I was reading about people who have something wrong with their occipital lobes and can only pick out one shape, from anything like that, and no more, no matter how long they stare. Each time they look at the same array on separate occasions, they can only pick out the same shape.Evo said:She can also look at any object and instantly tell you how many distinct geometric shapes are in it. It takes her only a fraction of a second to do this. She can do this with entire walls with bookshelves and pictures...
She's just able to see things differently. She can see more than most people, or at least assimilate more information instantaneously than others. Other people would eventually be able to see what she sees, it would just take them much longer to grasp it.zoobyshoe said:Is your daughter able to explain what goes through her mind when she does this?
Exactly, she just does it. A quirky gift.Mk said:I would assume she just does it, not much of a complex conscious thought process is there?
I could see training yourself to be tuned in specifically to shapes so that this would be the first thing to jump out at you. It's funny to me that she arrived at this without probably consciously training herself to pay attention to that, or the odd or evenness of the number of letters in words. Or maybe she did go through a period of consciously paying attention to that.Evo said:She's just able to see things differently. She can see more than most people, or at least assimilate more information instantaneously than others. Other people would eventually be able to see what she sees, it would just take them much longer to grasp it.
No, it's just something that happened. I guess it could stop just as suddenly. I'm also a bit odd with my photographic memory, although chronic lack of sleep has really affected it. I've found that I need at least 10 hours of sleep a night to have perfect recall. My memory is like video clips, I see all of my memories played back like a video.zoobyshoe said:Or maybe she did go through a period of consciously paying attention to that.
Is there a slo mo button? How about fast forward? Can you zoom in or zoom out?Evo said:My memory is like video clips, I see all of my memories played back like a video.
You mean external to you? Are they projected into space in front of your eyes?Evo said:My memory is like video clips, I see all of my memories played back like a video.
Evo said:Ok, I'll confess to having two unusual daughters.
My oldest is a synesthete, she sees letters as colors.
My youngest has a couple of "gifts". When she sees something that is written, she will automatically group all of the letters by odd and even. I first realized this one day as we were driving. She was saying "odd' "even" to herself. I asked her what she was doing. She pointed to a street sign that said "Lake Elmhurst St Exit", she said "odd". Then she pointed at the next sign "Heron Boulevard Exit", she said "even". I asked her what she was talking about. She can glance at a word or even a long sentence and instantly tell you if the number of letters (including spaces) totals an odd or even number. She can also do this as a person is speaking. She can also regroup all of the letters instantly into an even number for the total by adding or subtracting letters from words. Hearing her do this is bizarre as she goes through all of the letters, rapidly regrouping them and looping the sentences. This is hard to explain. She can also look at any object and instantly tell you how many distinct geometric shapes are in it. It takes her only a fraction of a second to do this. She can do this with entire walls with bookshelves and pictures, etc... She's also one of those people that can make multiple folds in their tongue.
zoobyshoe said:My brain doesn't do anything cool.
No, I mean I don't have video memories, or instant recognition of all the shapes in a room, or savant calculating abilities, or the ability to tell how many pages are in a book by feeling how thick it is, or the abiity to write with both hands at once, and that kind of stuff.Mk said:You've obviously been wasting your life. You could have been staring at a sheet of paper with the Riemann hypothesis on it for 20 years, and save the universe.
The zoobie brain is a slow, steam-powered engine with one forward gear, which makes a lot of noise and spews black clouds of smoke and cinders when in operation.Dimitri Terryn said:Being Zooby doesn't count?
I meant Dimitri's post. With his sudden flashes of genius.Mk said:You've obviously been wasting your life. You could have been staring at a sheet of paper with the Riemann hypothesis on it for 20 years, and save the universe.
Sorry to hear that!Smurf said:page 3 lisa, of course not.
I stay awake at night and talk to myself, often without realising it when I do it (and some time afterwards too). Some people consider that a weird habit.
Mk said:You've obviously been wasting your life. You could have been staring at a sheet of paper with the Riemann hypothesis on it for 20 years, and save the universe.
My brain works slowly. I can't solve calculus problems faster than the average engineering student (they're fast). I usually take a long time grasping relations. My brain is like "I can't be bothered right now, so go read a book or play with the cat and maybe something willl pop up in a few weeks, no promises, of course." I am lazy in that sense.zoobyshoe said:My brain doesn't do anything cool.
not for me...so it must still be on topic...Smurf said:page 3 lisa, of course not.