jetbuilder wrote:
MjrMajorMajor wrote:
Nope. The closest I come is imagining how I would feel in someone else's situation, but I know it's not the same. I do my best not to be an unempathic jerk, with mixed results.
Wait, that's not the same thing???
I thought that imagining myself in their situation was all that was to it! How the hell am I supposed to know what it'd be like to actually
be someone else???
If for example they like onion and you hate onion you can't simply imagine how you will feel if you were them because for you eating onion is repulsive while for them it tastes great.
In order to fully imagine how to be them you must assume the onion tastes great despite it tasting bad. Of course you can't do it in real because real onion will always taste like onion but the onion in your imagination can cause different reaction. You can imagine yourself liking onion if you imagine the onion causes you similar reaction as any food you like does.
Thats how I understand imagining being someone else. Of course onion is only example. It can be anything: crowds, snow, heat, rain, touch, sex, party...
06 Jan 2015, 12:34 pm
