is the blue I see the same as the blue you see

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annstreetstudio:

 

nenya-kanadka:

jazzypom:

aradiaofthemegidos:

attackonaang:

pockyxmocky:

now you know how people with glasses see.

WOAH is this how it really is?

YES THIS IS VERY ACCURATE

This is my life. Am tempted to get laser surgery down the road.

Pretty much, yep. Though you learn to focus on the bit in the middle (sometimes to the detriment of peripheral vision). 

I haven’t needed new glasses in…oh, at least six or seven years. But back when my vision was actively deteriorating and I was replacing my glasses* regularly, I always insisted (and still would) on buying the largest lenses they had. Why anyone with inferior-in-all-respects unassisted vision would do otherwise**, I don’t know. Get large lenses and wear them as far up the nose as they can go and you cover almost your entire field of vision. Only my peripherals remain at -5.5, and I get the impression peripherals are supposed to be blurry anyway. And you don’t even have to attempt to cope with contacts.

*It was usually cheaper to replace the whole thing than to change out the lenses, plus my head was still growing.

**And clearly a lot of them do, since the glasses in the store are overwhelmingly small- or medium-lensed.

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i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:

moniquill:

dreamsphoto:

luckyshirt:

laughingsquid:

How Old Are Your Ears, A Hearing Test by AsapScience

Shit.

Whelp, I can’t hear the 40 year old one.  I’m 36, and my ears are 50.  awesome. At least now i know I’m not imagining that my ears are bad, they actually are bad.

I can hear ‘under 30’ but not anything after that.

I’m 23 and I can’t hear the ‘under 40’ one (or any of the ones after that)

And the ‘under 50’ one I honestly don’t know if I heard that more or…… like felt it more so….

my ears kinda suck but I knew this already.

– Leon

Well, is it *you* that can’t hear it, or your headphones? I only got as far as 12000 Hz, and I’m pretty sure I have good hearing. I think that’s just what I get for buying the $15 earbuds at Walmart.

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ozyreads:

Ozy’s Tumblr Thing: brin-bellway: sloth-with-a-blog: thatpsychowriter: For all of you who…

shlevy:

brin-bellway:

sloth-with-a-blog:

thatpsychowriter:

For all of you who are worried that there might be secret mind readers in the room just try MENTALLY SCREAMING and if anyone jumps or flinches, you know

you really live up to your url

So, are most people capable of…

I never thought that some people might not think in words…

LOOK AT THIS THING MY BOYFRIEND WROTE

IT EXPLAINS THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO THINK IN PICTURES AND SOME PEOPLE WHO THINK IN WORDS

It does? It definitely says that there are some people who have very detailed mind’s eyes and some who lack them entirely (and a lot in-between), which is only almost the same thing. (I certainly can visualise and often do, but if asked if I think primarily in pictures or words I would probably say words, and visualisation is the first thing to go under the least amount of stress*.)

*Defined for this purpose as “deviation from routine events”. (While they are often enjoyable deviations and routine events can be stressful (in a way that doesn’t cause this), “stress” still seems like the most appropriate word.)

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sloth-with-a-blog:

thatpsychowriter:

For all of you who are worried that there might be secret mind readers in the room just try MENTALLY SCREAMING and if anyone jumps or flinches, you know

you really live up to your url

So, are most people capable of thinking loudly, or are we just ignoring that it’s impossible to think loudly for the sake of the joke? (Neither possibility would surprise me.)

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in the shower

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bigdisasterenergy:

me: that’s not quite hot enough let me just turn it up to boiling lava.
me: yes good i shall bathe in the waters of mordor.
me: why do we have like 25 different kinds of shampoo?
me: i’ma read the back of this.
me: lather, rinse, repeat?
me: why do i have to repeat is your product so shitty it didn’t work the first time?
me: hold the fuck up i have to write fanfic in my head real quick.
me: if water is a renewable resource does that mean every celebrity i’ve ever loved has showered in this same water before?
me: eheheheheheheheheheh.
me: but you didn’t have to CUT ME OFF.
me: did i already wash my hair?
me: i think i did but i don’t remember.
me: i’ma do it again.
me: FUCK I REPEATED.
me: well played, pantene pro-v. WELL PLAYED
me: i wonder what it’s like to have sex in the shower.
me: i bet it’s awkward.
me: i bet a lot of injuries happen that way.
me: okay time to get out.
me:
me:
me: where the fuck is my towel.

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lolprosopagnosia:

internetkatze:

I’m listening to this MIT lecture about visual perception while doing my inking try-out, and there’s this part where he shows pictures of people’s faces upside-down, but with one or two facial features distorted (for example, mouth and eyes are still right-side-up while the rest of the face is upside down) and saying things like, “you can’t tell there’s anything wrong with these faces until I flip them, because your brain is not used to seeing people upside down.”

But I immediately recognized what was wrong with them before he even mentioned anything! I was like, that mouth looks weird D: and then he flipped it and I was like HA I WAS RIGHT

but what really makes this interesting is that I’m faceblind and I can’t recognize people’s faces normally. But I can tell when the features are wrong upside down. ….what does that say about me!? Should I sign up for research or something……?

That’s actually pretty cool, and now that you mention it, I’ve always picked that out immediately as well.

Anyone else with prosopagnosia run into this?

For what it’s worth, the first time I saw one of those pictures I didn’t notice the flipped mouth until the face was turned right-side-up. (I think now that I know these pictures are out there and might be encountered I’d be much more likely to realise what it is.)

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anshinwrites:

beranyth:

I would pickpocket a bunch of people, cook, complain about being a Grey Warden, count how much money I have, cook some more, take a nap and have some nightmares, run screaming from a mirror or two…

and frolick in the woods

that is an elfy thing to do, right?  MERRILL SAID SO

…apparently I just spontaneously turned into Thor.

Well then.

I would probably spend my entire day being bros with the Avengers and drinking coffee and eating all the food and flying around and making it rain.

Yep.

Pretty much.

There would probably be some seduction of various people involved in there too.

Photosynthesising somewhere in Russia.

(It does raise a lot of issues, though. Can one really be said to have “woken up” if one has no brain to wake up with? Do I magically retain my mind despite having nowhere to keep it? If so, is this going to be an and-I-must-scream thing, or more of a restful break from life as a biped? This makes a big difference in my reaction, you know.)

(I have never been to Russia. I did not take the picture myself; someone kindly donated it to Wikimedia. For some reason I can’t find the original copy on there.)

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eateroftrees:

maverynthia replied to your post: UGH. Those high-frequency sounds tick me off like nothing else.

I thought I was the only person to hear those “The TV is still on when it’s not” sounds. ._.

NOPE.

Eegh those sounds are unpleasant

When I walk into a room with a TV on-but-playing-nothing, there’s a subtle change in the background noise compared to walking into the same room with the TV off. I don’t perceive it as unpleasant; I barely perceive it at all. Guess I’m lucky that way.