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Post by cjm on Oct 9, 2014 18:37:21 GMT
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Post by Trog on Oct 10, 2014 5:52:09 GMT
Here is something I’ve noticed about myself, and I wonder if this is a universal thing:
When you conjure up the memory of somebody’s face, as in constructing an image in your mind of that face? I find that I can construct a much more detailed, or sharper, imaginary image of faces of people I have no emotional involvement with, than with the faces of people I do have some emotional (positive or negative) association with. This is independent of how long I’ve known the person – it could be minutes or years.
It is as if the emotional element introduces a degree of fuzziness to the image of the face I’m forming in my mind.
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Post by cjm on Oct 11, 2014 5:49:23 GMT
Here is something I’ve noticed about myself, and I wonder if this is a universal thing: When you conjure up the memory of somebody’s face, as in constructing an image in your mind of that face? I find that I can construct a much more detailed, or sharper, imaginary image of faces of people I have no emotional involvement with, than with the faces of people I do have some emotional (positive or negative) association with. This is independent of how long I’ve known the person – it could be minutes or years. It is as if the emotional element introduces a degree of fuzziness to the image of the face I’m forming in my mind. My memories of faces are all rather fuzzy. I cannot say that I can detect a difference between the familiar and strangers. In fact, considering your experience, one would think that it should be the other way round. Looking for an explanation one could wager that your exposure to familiar faces causes a sort of mental blank-out as a result of an overload of impressions (emotional and visual). A curious mental picture I have is of the numeric system. I thought that it is common until I mentioned it to someone who laughed at me. Without going into detail, it is a curious zig-zag line of numbers. Depending on where I am in the system, my vantage point and the direction of the numbers shift. The more remote numbers also acquire a fuzziness, until I move to a higher (or lower) number. I also find that mental computation with certain numbers is more difficult than others (7, 3, 9, come to mind). I have often thought that my mental speed of computation is bedevilled by the imagery. |
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