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Post by timegirl on Sept 21, 2021 16:06:21 GMT
This is probably a very odd thing to ask about but this is something I do when I use my imagination/ daydream and I was if others do the same or not:
When you daydream/ use your imagination either for coming up with a story, reading a book/ non visual media like audio drama, or just for fun; do you you ever imagine physically seeing through the eyes of fictional characters and feeling, seeing and hearing through their point of view?
I often do this often when I am daydreaming or coming up with a story I will imagine what that person sees, hears, feels, tastes, smells. What they see when they look down or up. I often like to imagine what someone sees when they first wake up and look at themselves in the morning. I can often feel/ experience being in many other’s bodies and what it would be like with their ages, heights, weights, abilities, etc. sometimes I even physically project/mimic fasciae expressions I imagine characters having. I also sometimes like to imagine through the eyes of two characters simultaneously and what they see hear feel touch in that moment. For example if I am imagining two people kissing I physically experience the kiss from both characters eyes, touch, smell, emotional and physical responses etc. simultaneously .
Does anyone else see through others eyes and experience their physical and emotional sensations when they use their imagination/daydream? Or am I just weird, lol?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 20:49:22 GMT
Nothing wrong with weird. Weird is usually paired with wonderful and we need more wonderful in the world.  In terms of creating, yep, it's absolutely a thing. It's why readers can often get exasperated when they're interrupted midway through something. When someone's properly engaged with a story, the imagination just runs riot with sensations and experiences. Jumping, diving, talking, walking, falling -- there's a reason why we call it escapism. Shivers down the spine at a particularly good scene is most common. I tend to find how close that perspective is depends on the style of the book. There are some stories where you're in the character's head from beginning to end. Some where you're crouching shoulder-to-shoulder while they talk in your ear. And some which play out in their version of a mental theatre. It's a bit like whether or not you dream in colour. There's a bit of variety depending on who you ask. I remember a conversation, ages ago, I think, about how listeners pictured Big Finish stories. There was a tonne of variety. Ranging from whether or not the actors had aged in the interim to what production values were given to each story. I've seen The Ark in monochrome on television, but I'll always remember it in colour because the novelisation came first. |
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Post by timegirl on Sept 21, 2021 20:55:46 GMT
Nothing wrong with weird. Weird is usually paired with wonderful and we need more wonderful in the world. In terms of creating, yep, it's absolutely a thing. It's why readers can often get exasperated when they're interrupted midway through something. When someone's properly engaged with a story, the imagination just runs riot with sensations and experiences. Jumping, diving, talking, walking, falling -- there's a reason why we call it escapism. Shivers down the spine at a particularly good scene is most common. I tend to find how close that perspective is depends on the style of the book. There are some stories where you're in the character's head from beginning to end. Some where you're crouching shoulder-to-shoulder while they talk in your ear. And some which play out in their version of a mental theatre. It's a bit like whether or not you dream in colour. There's a bit of variety depending on who you ask. I remember a conversation, ages ago, I think, about how listeners pictured Big Finish stories. There was a tonne of variety. Ranging from whether or not the actors had aged in the interim to what production values were given to each story. I've seen The Ark in monochrome on television, but I'll always remember it in colour because the novelisation came first. That’s very true! When you create do you inhabit the bodies of characters you are writing? I remember that thread! It was fascinating! I agree, I like weird!😊 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 21:09:44 GMT
Nothing wrong with weird. Weird is usually paired with wonderful and we need more wonderful in the world. In terms of creating, yep, it's absolutely a thing. It's why readers can often get exasperated when they're interrupted midway through something. When someone's properly engaged with a story, the imagination just runs riot with sensations and experiences. Jumping, diving, talking, walking, falling -- there's a reason why we call it escapism. Shivers down the spine at a particularly good scene is most common. I tend to find how close that perspective is depends on the style of the book. There are some stories where you're in the character's head from beginning to end. Some where you're crouching shoulder-to-shoulder while they talk in your ear. And some which play out in their version of a mental theatre. It's a bit like whether or not you dream in colour. There's a bit of variety depending on who you ask. I remember a conversation, ages ago, I think, about how listeners pictured Big Finish stories. There was a tonne of variety. Ranging from whether or not the actors had aged in the interim to what production values were given to each story. I've seen The Ark in monochrome on television, but I'll always remember it in colour because the novelisation came first. That’s very true! When you create do you inhabit the bodies of characters you are writing? I remember that thread! It was fascinating! I agree, I like weird!😊 Oh, depends. Depends on the story, it tends to vary. I'd talk about it in more detail, but trade secrets and all that. *taps nose*   I do find that imagination plays a key part in how we remember things. If you were to ask me about the telesnap reconstructions of old Who stories, a lot of them aren't a series of photographs but full-motion scenes. Somewhere between the image and the sound, there's a gap that's been filled by the mind to make recalling it easier. In that instance, my memory is very much the camera in those scenes. Whichever way it ultimately ends up being used. Some stories are the same every time, others change quite wildly depending on what's been going on around them since. There's so much fan art of The Evil of the Daleks, for instance, that it's difficult not to think of the story as having a big scale to the proceedings. |
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Post by barnabaslives on Sept 21, 2021 21:27:46 GMT
I probably wouldn't be a good person to ask about weird because I'm too weird to be any use there, but yeah - I've been known to get vivid impressions. I don't know if at the extreme it's maybe kind of an autistic thing - I know that I know of one autistic who had similar things go on, poor guy was on the Dr. Phil show or something and I thought he was being completely misunderstood, I think Dr. Phil told him he needed to get out more often, lol. I tried to tell a psychiatrist about it one time ages ago and also got completely misunderstood. I just kind of try to roll with it.
At the extreme end is that I used to find social situations awkward sometimes because my senses would pick up such vivid impressions of people's speech and manners that my brain would start continuing the conversation I was having with someone, after they'd left - and I would sort of involuntarily picture myself looking out through their eyes when it was their turn to speak.
I think it's at the less extreme end of it that I seem to have a gift for imagining dialog delivered by a particular actor/actress perfectly. I was testing it out just now to see if I still have it and I couldn't write two lines of a Fifth Doctor story without being able to hear Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton reading the lines, plain as day and perfectly, in my imagination.
Whatever it is, it does strike me as a wonderful gift as long as it behaves itself. :-)
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Post by timegirl on Sept 21, 2021 21:45:34 GMT
I probably wouldn't be a good person to ask about weird because I'm too weird to be any use there, but yeah - I've been known to get vivid impressions. I don't know if at the extreme it's maybe kind of an autistic thing - I know that I know of one autistic who had similar things go on, poor guy was on the Dr. Phil show or something and I thought he was being completely misunderstood, I think Dr. Phil told him he needed to get out more often, lol. I tried to tell a psychiatrist about it one time ages ago and also got completely misunderstood. I just kind of try to roll with it. At the extreme end is that I used to find social situations awkward sometimes because my senses would pick up such vivid impressions of people's speech and manners that my brain would start continuing the conversation I was having with someone, after they'd left - and I would sort of involuntarily picture myself looking out through their eyes when it was their turn to speak. I think it's at the less extreme end of it that I seem to have a gift for imagining dialog delivered by a particular actor/actress perfectly. I was testing it out just now to see if I still have it and I couldn't write two lines of a Fifth Doctor story without being able to hear Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton reading the lines, plain as day and perfectly, in my imagination. Whatever it is, it does strike me as a wonderful gift as long as it behaves itself. :-) Your not too weird! Everyone is weird in their own way😊 That’s interesting about picking up conversations after someone has left and imagining dialogue! Have you ever thought about writing/ script writing? I do something similar with imaginary conversations with characters and real life people🤔 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 12:33:09 GMT
I'm aphantasic, which means I can't make images in my head (I always thought people weren't being literal when they used to talk about "picturing things"). I definitely do play out conversations between imaginary people in my head though when I'm thinking of stories, and I think this is why I like audio drama so much; to me, the dramatic experience is much more about the sound than the image. It's probably also why it really bugs me when doctor who audios don't recreate the authentic soundscape for the era being depicted.
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Post by tuigirl on Sept 23, 2021 7:51:30 GMT
When I write stories, the characters actually take over after a while.
Things might develop into a totally different direction and say and do different things to what I had originally planned.
It is like a whole new ecosystem/ parallel world in my head, with characters having a life on their own.
Sometimes, I find it is quite hard to force them back into line and have them act out the story I am writing.
Sometimes, it is quite exciting what will happen.
I also have this thing when I go for a walk, and listen to music, I just let my mind flow. Total stream of consciousness.
Then, some very strage things can happen.
I had it several times already that pictures and little films pop up in my head which appear not to be mine.
Then I can see things from the point of view of other people.
It really sounds strange, but this is actually quite helpful, because it made me appreciate situations and relationships in a whole different light. At a guess, since I am highly sensitive, it is my instinct translating certain things that had happened.
It is however nothing I can control, it pops up randomly and it also will only happen concerning people I have developed a bond to.
Aren't our brains wonderful?
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