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[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get as much enjoyment from technical books that I read for career and personal reasons as I do fiction, so I usually read non fiction as it at least has a purpose for me. I wonder how much is related to my not being able to visualize anything.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reading both is very similar for me but non-fiction does give more imagination material.

Like if I read Star Wars I would get a lot more ideas on space and jedi. If I read about the Kreb Cycle I would just know the information on the Kreb Cycle.

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think I might have an imagination fault in addition to ‘can’t see things in my mind’ (which I thought was completely made up that people could just picture things in their head, it still freaks me out even though I’ve accepted it) fault. I can imagine things of course but only in like a practical reality sense. Like my mind doesn’t have a bridge to ‘maybe’ kinds of theory unless I can make it make sense along the way. That’s not to say I don’t imagine things that make sense in my head that would be complete disasters, because I do, regularly, and peer review has saved me countless times. I don’t know how to explain but the more I hear about how other people’s brains work it makes me think mine is broken and constrained significantly for some reason.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmm.

I feel like I'm very logical and I don't like speculating on things that I don't have all the information on.

I can imagine things of course but only in like a practical reality sense

I'm confused of what you mean. Do you think you could give an example?

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Things that don’t follow the way I understand physics and technology to work. I enjoy sci-fi stuff a bit but when it doesn’t ’work’ I have trouble suspending disbelief and enjoying. Time travel is an easy example, I find most media with time travel to be exceptionally frustrating and taxing. Bending space, worm holes, silent floating and fast aircraft’s. An antidote just immediately saving the world without any production at scale or logistic considerations, not to mention geo politics, just magical gets into everyone’s systems so the world is saved. It can make brainstorming really difficult for me. I’m not sure if those examples help or not, it’s what immediately came to mind, I’m sure there’s better.

Edit: I want to clarify, I don’t think it’s a positive thing, I find my mind to be frustrating