Odd?
I have to know, is it just me?
Tonight I am having trouble sleeping. I am a bit nervous about the amount of work to be done this week and feel like I am not being productive sleeping...yet I'm too tired to really study at the moment. To try and clear my head of the stress and anxiety I'm experiencing I decided to try to do some mental exercising in relaxation techniques. I tried to picture just the color blue. Then green. Then I tried to picture a small flame, that that which could be found atop a candle.
I couldn't do any of it. At no point did a picture ever come up in my mind. At best I could create a description of what I wanted to see but I never got an actual image.
Now I have joked for many years that I have a textually based mind. When I think back on a memory I usually think of it in terms of how it would read were it written down. A description of the events I'm attempting to recall. While it is true, I could sometimes get what I thought were images or flashes of memory about what it looked like at the time. Now that I'm trying to get an actual image and failing...I realize that the 'joke' is actually accurate. The only sensory replays I can get in my head are sounds and music...never images.
I'm curious now, when you close your eyes, relax, and try to picture a color, a scene, a simple object: can you see it? Obviously you can't with you eyes, but in your mind do you "see" whatever it is you're thinking of? When thinking back on a memorable event from your past do you see it played out like a movie? Also, if you are thinking about a song you've heard, can you hear it in your head?
Perhaps I'm just trying to find another way to distract my mind so that I can possibly get to sleep tonight. Regardless, I thought it might be an interesting question to pose to whoever still browses by this page.
Looking forward to your input.
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