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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: "couldbecousin" on November 01, 2016, 02:58:47 PM
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For many years, I've made videos in my head while listening to music. I love to imagine action that's
rhythmically and emotionally matched to the music and lyrics. I've come up with original stories,
some of which have had me in tears, because I grieve better when listening to music that moves me.
Some of my videos are exciting action/adventure stories as well. Currently I'm listening to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzH-YAlFYc
and making up a video in my head using quick cuts from Jurassic World. I'm leaving out the gore,
keeping it more light-hearted and exciting, with some elements of humor. I know lots of people make
tribute videos like this on YouTube, I just wonder if anyone here does this in his or her imagination. 8)
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All the time. I play the music in my head too if I can't access it. Most of my imagination features handsome men, or me trying to get out of a natural disaster. Or food...
And yeh, music really helps to "play" out emotions.
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For many years, I've made videos in my head while listening to music. I love to imagine action that's
rhythmically and emotionally matched to the music and lyrics. I've come up with original stories,
some of which have had me in tears, because I grieve better when listening to music that moves me.
Some of my videos are exciting action/adventure stories as well. Currently I'm listening to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAzH-YAlFYc
and making up a video in my head using quick cuts from Jurassic World. I'm leaving out the gore,
keeping it more light-hearted and exciting, with some elements of humor. I know lots of people make
tribute videos like this on YouTube, I just wonder if anyone here does this in his or her imagination. 8)
I do it a lot! 8)
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All the time. I play the music in my head too if I can't access it. Most of my imagination features handsome men, or me trying to get out of a natural disaster. Or food...
And yeh, music really helps to "play" out emotions.
I play music in my head too, I love having a great song stuck in my mind! My videos
often include heroic escapes too, sometimes in a helicopter. What kind of foods do you picture? 8)
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I do it a lot! 8)
I'm glad. It brings me a lot of joy. :2thumbsup:
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Nope don't really do the videos. But my mind does often insert appropriate soundtrcks to whatever's happening right now.
Eg. this is the soundtrack that popped into my head on reading this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OpJAzQJyo
On the other hand, this is a very visual song, with something of a story to it, and I get a jumble of visual images in my head to go along with it, but they don't have the conherence of a video. I don't think in images, especially, like some people do, nor in words, but rather in an interconnected mass of abstact thoughts, various sensory impressions, memories, etc; music often features quite heavily, and snatches of poetry. I don't follow action very easily at all (my brain is too slow , especially with visual-spatial processing) so the visual component is more like a scattering of snapshots than a narrative.
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I just wonder if anyone here does this in his or her imagination. 8)
Don't personally do it; though sounds rather meditative.
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Nope don't really do the videos. But my mind does often insert appropriate soundtrcks to whatever's happening right now.
Eg. this is the soundtrack that popped into my head on reading this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OpJAzQJyo
On the other hand, this is a very visual song, with something of a story to it, and I get a jumble of visual images in my head to go along with it, but they don't have the conherence of a video. I don't think in images, especially, like some people do, nor in words, but rather in an interconnected mass of abstact thoughts, various sensory impressions, memories, etc; music often features quite heavily, and snatches of poetry. I don't follow action very easily at all (my brain is too slow , especially with visual-spatial processing) so the visual component is more like a scattering of snapshots than a narrative.
I like to learn about how other brains work. I read something awhile back about a guy who cannot
visualize anything. He basically has no memories of his past, since he can't "see" any scenes
from the past in his mind. He manages in conversation by having rehearsed, generic answers. He
never knew this was atypical till recently; then his mind was blown.
Mine was too, when I read his article. I wish we all could describe how our brains work. :orly:
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I just wonder if anyone here does this in his or her imagination. 8)
Don't personally do it; though sounds rather meditative.
I can make myself feel all kinds of things by choosing the right song and adding scenes.
Sometimes I have to change the song because it's a work day and I need to cheer up instead of being :emosad: .
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I picture food that I'm craving, mostly, like moist warm chocolate fudge cake, served with cream and/or vanilla ice-cream, and drizzled with hot chocolate fudge sauce. Just spooning all that deep chocolately deliciousness into my mouth. Melted marshmallows too? Goodness! I'd have a sexy man come serve it all to me with cocktails and hmm...actually wait, they don't normally go with dessert. Oh well. Cocktails and cheese later on *droool*. And this sexy man would sing to me in the voice of George Michael.
And...what to cook next. :D
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Nope don't really do the videos. But my mind does often insert appropriate soundtrcks to whatever's happening right now.
Eg. this is the soundtrack that popped into my head on reading this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OpJAzQJyo
On the other hand, this is a very visual song, with something of a story to it, and I get a jumble of visual images in my head to go along with it, but they don't have the conherence of a video. I don't think in images, especially, like some people do, nor in words, but rather in an interconnected mass of abstact thoughts, various sensory impressions, memories, etc; music often features quite heavily, and snatches of poetry. I don't follow action very easily at all (my brain is too slow , especially with visual-spatial processing) so the visual component is more like a scattering of snapshots than a narrative.
I like to learn about how other brains work. I read something awhile back about a guy who cannot
visualize anything. He basically has no memories of his past, since he can't "see" any scenes
from the past in his mind. He manages in conversation by having rehearsed, generic answers. He
never knew this was atypical till recently; then his mind was blown.
Mine was too, when I read his article. I wish we all could describe how our brains work. :orly:
Oooh. Well I think that "rehearsed generic answers" thing is actually quite typical of aspies, for whatever reason. Hence the notorious "aspie monologues". By our age, we're so practiced at that, it can sound almost exactly like spontaneous speech. However, I'd be surprised if any of us can actually do spontaneous speech. I'm partly going by the medical profiles here (ugh) but also by numerous conversations on this topic with numerous aspies; which all tend to lead me towards the conclusion that the doctors actually have that part right (for a change)
For my own part, I'm effectively devoid of personal menories, whilst I'm trying to keep up with a conversation (They flood back in once I'm alone again) The effort of keeping up overloads my brain, seems to me, so bits of me switch out- access to personal memories, in particular; often my emotions too, body awareness (almost always switched out anyway), and awareness of my immediate environment But I do maintain acess to an ever-increasing number of "scripts" in my memory,; that is things I've previously said, or else considrered saying to the point of rehearsing the words in my head.
On a good day, I can scan the scripts pretty fast and pull out the relevant sections, chop them about, and even pull out a few closely associated memories. But that falls apart if my brain's under particular pressure, of if people ask me personal questions. I often can't answer tghe personal questions, because my memory is AWOL, and I don;'t have a relevant script for that (which situation I'm currently in the process of amending , as regards this scripting thing, as you see! Otherwise, you'd be waiting years for this reply *chuckle*. I don't organise my thoughts and translate them into words very quickly at all, especially not on such challenging subjects as my own sweet brain). Worse, I can light on inappropriate scripts and reel them off, in the blithe belief that , if i said it before, it ,must be true. However, often context is everything, just like say. eg when asked what was wrong with my PC, I once reeled off what was wrong with my old PC that had died 5 years previously. More embarrasingly, after declaring that I 'm "accident prone" (that;'s easy. everybody know that) I was once asked to talk about my most recent accident, and to estimate how often i have accidents; I could not , for life of recall having a single accident ever.
Sometimes, i wish to god I were functionally dumb under pressure. but no such luck. Instead, I turn into an ever-more dysfunctional script dispensing robot under pressure, and thoroughly stitch myself up. I don't even have the good sense to shut up (my good sense flies out of the window too)
I honestly believe I'm a pretty damned typical Aspie in that, but if you'd asked me a few years back, i couldn't have explained it like that, not even to myself. The best i could have said was: I avoid interview situations like the plague, because some-how -or-other I inevitably screw them up.
Oh! re. the rollergirl song (in case you don't know it and didn't bother) the chorus goes:
"She gets rock n roll, a rock n roll station
And a rock n roll dream
She's making movies on location
She don't know what it means
But the music make her wanna be the story
And the story was whatever was the song what it was
Rollergirl don't worry
D.J. play the movies all night long"
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I don't do this at all. Though sometimes I do get songs stuck in my head. But that's about it.
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I picture food that I'm craving, mostly, like moist warm chocolate fudge cake, served with cream and/or vanilla ice-cream, and drizzled with hot chocolate fudge sauce. Just spooning all that deep chocolately deliciousness into my mouth. Melted marshmallows too? Goodness! I'd have a sexy man come serve it all to me with cocktails and hmm...actually wait, they don't normally go with dessert. Oh well. Cocktails and cheese later on *droool*. And this sexy man would sing to me in the voice of George Michael.
And...what to cook next. :D
George Michael could sound angelic when singing those high notes. Marshmallows are also a win. :drool:
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I can't do that. :( Probably why I like looking up the music videos for songs all the time. I replay the videos in my head.
Life for me does frequently have a sound track though or a literary reference. I'll see certain things and certain songs come to mind, or something from a book I've read.
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For primarily being a visual learner, I don't do much visual thinking.
Come to think of it, I don't do much thinking, period.
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I frequently think in music, which sometimes results in colours, but I don't usually do videos in my head. The music in my head is more of a soundtrack to what I see and feel.
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I can't get colors fom sounds, no synesthesia happening here. But I do have fun with the videos. 8)
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The colours are sort of odd. :-\
It's a lot weirder still when depersonalisation happens.
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The colours are sort of odd. :-\
It's a lot weirder still when depersonalisation happens.
How long does the depersonalization last? I've had moments of something I suspect is similar
to depersonalization, moments when I suddenly become very aware that I'm alive now and in
this particular body, and I don't know why. It seems so random that this is me. Does that
make sense? It's kind of the same feeling you might get by staring into the mirror for a very long time.
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The colours are sort of odd. :-\
It's a lot weirder still when depersonalisation happens.
How long does the depersonalization last? I've had moments of something I suspect is similar
to depersonalization, moments when I suddenly become very aware that I'm alive now and in
this particular body, and I don't know why. It seems so random that this is me. Does that
make sense? It's kind of the same feeling you might get by staring into the mirror for a very long time.
This is sort of like the opposite. That this body is not part of you or even connected to you. It lasts from anywhere between a few seconds to several minutes.
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The colours are sort of odd. :-\
It's a lot weirder still when depersonalisation happens.
How long does the depersonalization last? I've had moments of something I suspect is similar
to depersonalization, moments when I suddenly become very aware that I'm alive now and in
this particular body, and I don't know why. It seems so random that this is me. Does that
make sense? It's kind of the same feeling you might get by staring into the mirror for a very long time.
This is sort of like the opposite. That this body is not part of you or even connected to you. It lasts from anywhere between a few seconds to several minutes.
So music is a trigger for you with the depersonalisation episodes?
Wish I could find a trigger with mine.
I think it's stress, lack of sleep but :dunno:
I've had episodes of it forever, before I could even put a name on it. Used to make me panic when I was younger, but now I can talk myself through it in my head. Thankfully like you said, it doesn't last long...and I can still function. Silently freaking out while doing so, because I feel like I'm controlling a puppet...but I function. :LOL:
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Music is sometimes a trigger but I'd expect it's just that, a trigger. I doubt anything would happen without underlying stress. :-\
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I like to "choreograph" incredibly athletic figure-skating routines
to good songs. This would be a great number.
I picture the skater winning Olympic gold with this routine! :2thumbsup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhwhd4yJW8
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I do that a lot, sort of. Although like walkie, mine comes across as a multi-modality sensory set of impressions although narratives happen too. Neither exclusively like walkie does, or exclusively CBC-esque.
I find some songs in particular, make me have an intense impression of a certain person, often at a certain period during life during which we were in some way interacting.
And walkie, I know I can, for want of a better term, discourse spontaneously. DRs don't have it entirely wrong, for all spectrum-spawn but they sure as shit haven't got it entirely right either. Nor does it follow for all of us. Although logically it is unlikely given the sample size (the demographic consisting of classic/kanner's autistics, you aspie folk out there and Rett's girls in the entirety of the spectrum, as well as those not autistic/aspie per se but the types you'd likely see and think 'future carrier', who aren't those who dramatically express the traits outright, but who are phenotypically close. Cousins, I've heard them called. Or those who just could be :P being included as well) that I am the only one, I suppose its theoretically possible I'm a freak, but I very, very much doubt it on statistical probability grounds and include it as a possibility only in a 'devils advocate' sense. For the fuck of it, because I'm a logically ornery autist like that:autism:
And I like it that way.
And walkie, for your accident-prone remark, you made the remark being unable to think of any accidents you'd been prone to one. Therefore giving you one ready-made on the spot as an example specimen.
I don't tend to rely on scripts for the most part, although I've got a fair lot of them IF one or more was to prove useful.
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I wonder where Walkie is. Al doesn't post much these days either.
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Al doesn't post much these days either.
Should you and I start a fight with him? :zoinks:
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Al doesn't post much these days either.
Should you and I start a fight with him? :zoinks:
:lol1:
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Al doesn't post much these days either.
Should you and I start a fight with him? :zoinks:
Dear Gopher Gary
You do and I will banish you to Perdition and beyond.
Your loving Queen
Victoria
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Al doesn't post much these days either.
Should you and I start a fight with him? :zoinks:
:laugh: