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06 Dec 2016, 9:42 pm

You know that thing where you look really closely at an object or at a pattern, and you kind of get lost in looking at it? What do you call that? Is there a name for it?



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07 Dec 2016, 2:39 am

somanyspoons wrote:
You know that thing where you look really closely at an object or at a pattern, and you kind of get lost in looking at it? What do you call that? Is there a name for it?


I don't know what it's called, but I have been known to do the same thing. The best thing I loved to get lost in was this magic eye picture I had. It was all beautiful squiggly colours but if you looked just the right way it turned into a 3d picture. Maybe just a visual stim?

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07 Dec 2016, 8:39 am

Apophenia- is the human tendency to perceive meaningful pattern within random data...
Pareidolia- is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus ( an image or sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists...
Funny...I was actually researching this very exact "phenomenon" just this week because I used to do this a lot when I was younger...I see human forms, sometimes monsters & demons, angels all those weird stuff...within grains of wood, foliage, almost anything...it was never scary in fact it was beautiful...my biggest frustration is my inability to transfer it to paper...but not so much nowadays... I mean I can still do it if I wanted to...but I just don't see the point of forcing something that used to come naturally to me...I think it ended when I stopped drawing.... :D


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07 Dec 2016, 9:16 am

somanyspoons wrote:
You know that thing where you look really closely at an object or at a pattern, and you kind of get lost in looking at it? What do you call that? Is there a name for it?
I'm an idiot :jester: you wrote look to an object or a pattern...I read look to an object and see a pattern.... :lol:


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07 Dec 2016, 12:25 pm

I'm not sure there is a word for this in English. The Buddhist trance of samadhi when concentrating on a meditation object is the closest I can think of. It's an altered state of consciousness, one that autistics fall into with ease but NTs have to work hard to cultivate.

"Samādhi is a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi



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08 Dec 2016, 7:28 pm

neurotypicalET wrote:
somanyspoons wrote:
You know that thing where you look really closely at an object or at a pattern, and you kind of get lost in looking at it? What do you call that? Is there a name for it?
I'm an idiot :jester: you wrote look to an object or a pattern...I read look to an object and see a pattern.... :lol:


OK, yes. It totally didn't answer my question. But it is interesting information!



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08 Dec 2016, 7:30 pm

arielhawksquill wrote:
I'm not sure there is a word for this in English. The Buddhist trance of samadhi when concentrating on a meditation object is the closest I can think of. It's an altered state of consciousness, one that autistics fall into with ease but NTs have to work hard to cultivate.

"Samādhi is a non-dualistic state of consciousness in which the consciousness of the experiencing subject becomes one with the experienced object." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi


This is my favorite thing about my neurology. Mere mortals have to learn to meditate? We have to learn not to do so as much. It was odd when I figured out that many NTs actually struggle to learn what comes naturally to me.



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08 Dec 2016, 7:35 pm

I always look at things in mirrors, my hands especially. It gives them an extra layer of detachment at once fascinating and unsettling, I forget I'm looking at objects under my control.



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08 Dec 2016, 7:39 pm

Sounds like a form of hyper focus. Your attention gets lost within the details of the object and your mind switches off from everything else around you.

I've done it myself. I even convinced myself at one point that if I focused on the object hard enough, i'd be able to shift it with my mind...... needless to say, the object didn't go anywhere.


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08 Dec 2016, 8:38 pm

Fraser_1990 wrote:
Sounds like a form of hyper focus. Your attention gets lost within the details of the object and your mind switches off from everything else around you.

I've done it myself. I even convinced myself at one point that if I focused on the object hard enough, i'd be able to shift it with my mind...... needless to say, the object didn't go anywhere.


I find my lack of telekinesis so disappointing.



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08 Dec 2016, 8:44 pm

^I was telepathic once. Maybe I still am.


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09 Dec 2016, 7:57 am

Kuraudo777 wrote:
^I was telepathic once. Maybe I still am.
I'm just curious... Do you actually believe this or you're just joking...?


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