I think it is possible but just not probable.

I’d like to believe that at least.

Brown noise helps me stop random intrusions and provides calm and focus. I use the Star Trek TNG Enterprise D engine noise piped into my earbuds, headphones or home speakers.

I go into a meditative state when it gets really bad, like pushing everything to the side and focus past it all.

I’m 47, I don’t know how old you are but I’ve struggled with this throughout my life along with the other sensory stuff I have (emotion > color, Concept > shape, perceived emotion > color, mirror touch, texture > color/shape and a few other types of synesthesia). I have found that practicing to calm my mind, mute my senses and practice holistic balance in my life has greatly improved my quality of life.

I do not know how debilitating this is for you but it greatly affected my life. Realizing that I cannot stop my mind or isolate myself and live a fulfilling life. I learned to acknowledge these things and live with them as a benefit. The best analogy is that I surf the waves of my thoughts and no longer let the waves crash over me. Or like emotional/mental aikido. Learn to turn it to your advantage and empower you instead of letting it overwhelm you. Figure out triggers, isolate them and understand them.

Anyway, if you struggle with this you are not alone. There aren’t a ton of us out there but there are others. Don’t fight against it but learn to live in balance with it. When I did my life greatly improved. I have skills that no one else has and while people do not know what it comes from they can tell that my insightfulness, pattern recognition, logical decision making, memory and creativity are very different from the usual sort.

Apologies if this comes off as preachy, you may have your thing on lock already but 7 out of 10 times the person who I am discussing this stuff with who has something similar doesn’t. I will always be learning new tricks or hidden features and I am always looking for tips from others I interact with in the wild.

DM me whenever.

I am the same way, it is a constant slideshow of vivid images, videos loops, complex shapes and colors projected into my vision. Whatever I am thinking about has these associations, like my brain works on complex hieroglyphs and not words. Which seems to be backed up by science as neurological studies into language processing show that metaphorical image/sensory association happens before language processing within our brains. Language is a translation layer after all the sensory input.

I thought everyone was like this until my preteens when I would reference some aspect of it to others and get weird looks back.

Sounds like it could be a form of ticker tape synesthesia with a less vivid variation of hyperphantasia.

According to lore anyone over 30 who is still a virgin becomes a wizard and that is why there are so few wizards about.

So your competition would be a wizards battle. No offense but I’d buy tickets to that event.

This is an aside that is not really a response to your message.

Most people assume that because something isn’t easy to make explode that it is also isn’t easy to turn it off.

I’ve always assumed this isn’t true, that the two things are asymmetrical.

If it was built by the military or some other professional outfit that makes explody things, and not hobbled together in a cave somewhere, then the people making it actually don’t want it to explode for the vast majority of that things existence. Bombs are designed to only explode under very specific circumstances and there should be many off switches to prevent it from accidentally exploding or to accommodate for people changing their mind after activating it.

Like, you should need codes, special keys, synchronized activation switches and a countdown to make bombs blow up but I always assumed the designers of such things would build in so many failsafes that there would at least be a very prominent off switch that is clearly labeled on the outer shell… heck, there would probably be several depending on the size of the bomb.

Anyway, I always imagined that if I was alone with an ICBM I could disarm it somewhat easily during the countdown. I’ve never really researched whether my assumption is right because I’ve never thought I’d ever actually find myself alone with one during a situation like that. I could be wrong 🤷‍♂️

Heck yeah, I went to the launch party for it at the PlayStation Store in SF. They gave away these dog tag things.

My friends and I played this game so much using the PS2 network adapter thingy before moving to the Xbox for Halo 2 over Xbox Live.

I do in some sense, but it doesn’t present like eye floaters in the traditional sense though they are projected into my vision.

I have High-Production/Complex Concept->Shape Synesthesia

Listed as the most-complex type on the linked page. https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/concept-shape-synesthesia.html?m=1

As they say, “misery loves company.”

I like your take on hope. Doing your part hoping the rest of your battle group is doing theirs too.

It relies on trust, which there is also too little of nowadays.

<raises hand>

Hey, I actually have a collection of conditions that make it difficult for me to lie. I can but the way it affects my sensory conditions negatively influences my quality of life.

I have various forms of projector type synesthesia (emotion>color, mediated/perceived emotion>color, mirror touch, texture>color, high production concept>shape) as well as hyperphantasia (strong projected visual memory), lvl1 AUD, ADHD and a few other things too.

How this all comes together is I have a strong compulsion for justice, fairness and honesty and a feedback loop from my emotions and how I perceive others emotions that project colors into my vision. Each unique color maps to an Individual emotion, so sadness is a deep bluey/purple shadow whereas happiness is a limey red sparkle wave. When I am happy, that red colors my vision, or when I perceive others as happy they are overlaid with that color. Even individual reactions, like a smile on a sad person is projected. So if someone is bluey-purple but has a genuine smile then the limey red will highlight over their mouth while they are smiling.

When I lie that affects the colors I see in my world view or how I perceive others. Colors greatly affect my mood and general outlook on life so if my world is colored from destructive or deceitful behavior then my quality of life is also greatly affected on a deeply personal level.

What this results in is a person who tries to be blatantly honest in every aspect of my life. Honest, kind and fair are the colors I try to live within. Self sacrifice for others is my jam, to a fault. My perceived emotion>color kinda forces me to surround myself with caring, loving, honest and loyal people because the colors I perceive from others behavior and personality is always in my vision when I see or think of those people.

It took me a long time to learn to live within it and not be crushed or overwhelmed. I use polarized sunglasses with colored lens anytime I am outside of a safe space where I am already comfortable with the colors, or in bright lights as they bother me. I have a hundred pairs of sunglasses on a rack in my bathroom that I chose from each day depending on what colors I need to filter the world in. This helps block or cloud negative color patterns in areas where I can’t control who or what I may be seeing. Every pair of sunglasses is unique in color, shape, size, frame and all those parameters go into what glasses I wear for that day. I plan my glasses choices based on what environments I may find myself in so I am constantly carrying various pairs with me. Even the colors, fabric and texture of the clothes I wear affect the colors I see cover everything I see in my vision.

By managing my condition in this way I elevate my quality of life, mental health and outlook on the world.

I am compelled to be helpful to others, I give a lot of my stuff away and do not horde money or expensive things. I try to live a humble, shy and introverted life.

And Narcissist ARE my arch-nemesis. A bottomless pit of need that I am compelled to try to fill for them. They are my Achilles Heel but by the time I realize their true nature I am already too connected to go cold-turkey with them. Abandonment of the friendship/relationship feels like ripping off an appendage. It is the defining struggle of my life and it seems I am like a narcissist magnet. Like, seriously, I suspect it is a pheromone thing, or they just see an easy mark. I don’t know what it is really but I seem I draw them in like flies.

Anyway, I saw your comment and was compelled to answer your call as I think I fit your “other end of the spectrum” comment in relation to narcissists.

If you have any questions I’ll do my best to answer them for you.

Btw, your figurines, and the framing/setting of the picture, are pretty rad.

So you make these as a hobby?

Are all of the models you make similar characters just in different settings/outfits/poses?

What kind of printer do you use?

This happened about 16 years ago.

One of my buddies is a semi well-known photographer who was editing some photographs on his laptop while he was over at my place. One of the pictures he was editing showed the feet/toes of one of his subjects prominently, not the focus of the shot but they were easily visible. I knew he was going to post the picture to his socials once he was done as he did that for most of his shoots for marketing purposes so I joked, “I wonder if anyone would notice if you were to add an extra toe to that persons foot.”

So he photoshopped an extra toe onto one of the subjects feet and posted it. There were many comments about the photo but no one has ever pointed out the sixth toe on the most forward foot of the subject.

Every few years I check-in on that photo to see if anyone has said anything yet about it, still nothing. I do like/thumbs up that photo each time and then wait a week to remove my like/thumbs-up as an inside joke so he gets the notification from me on that photo as a notice that I am still keeping tabs on the outcome of my suggested joke.

In response he does the same thing to a very old profile photo of myself that I hate on an old social account I no longer use but check in with every couple years.

Him and I only get to catch up every several years when our paths cross but we communicate more through that thumbs/liking joke on those two photos more often, which is kinda fun.

I am not saying you are right or wrong but I am really excited to see if someone posts a link to a scrabble dictionary that has that word in it.

I think it would be an exhaustive search to prove either way and I am way too exhausted to even try… but I am so hoping a person comes along that reads your comment and innately knows the exact scrabble dictionary that has that exact word in it and posts the link with proof.

I love it when an incredible amount of coincidences come together and we all learn something.

Low probability but I am here for it.

Do they though?

I guess this all loops back to the age old philosophical question scholars have never been able to settle, do bombs need pajamas?

Yeah, those are the things I miss too. It feels like being a bit outside of a bubble looking in sometimes.

And then those early days of Facebook, where it was actually useful and engaging, I miss those days too. But the world is a different place now and the slippery slope is too slippery for me to feel comfortable getting anywhere close to that slope.

Bomb’s Pajamas sounds like a dangerous job for an item of clothing.

I don’t drink soda often but I feel Squirt is the best one out of all the mainstream sodas out there.

Grapefruit soda and the name is Squirt, I mean, come on, it’s firing on all cylinders here.

It also makes a great mixer, especially with tequila.

Lemmy is the only platform I engage with. I closed down or abandoned all other platforms around the same time you did. My quality of life has greatly improved since, though I do still miss certain aspects sometimes.

Hey, I have one of your BLE caberQU devices. I picked it up from your kickstarter.

Well done and thank you!

Good luck to everyone entering to win one. It is a handy device to have around.