questions you have always wanted to ask but scared to in case you would look stupid

why is the :sup: emoticon gone?

do these questions get answered?

  On 1/24/2013 at 3:08 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do these questions get answered?

only if there is an answer

also, did watmm just change font-family?

do you guys get your cats sterilized too??? it's such a sad thing to do... :(

  On 1/25/2013 at 5:40 PM, isaki said:

also, did watmm just change font-family?

looks liek yes...

me no like the new font. or maybe it's just cos I'm used to the old one. ah well

  On 1/25/2013 at 7:52 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do you guys get your cats sterilized too??? it's such a sad thing to do... :(

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 5:40 PM, isaki said:

also, did watmm just change font-family?

looks liek yes...

 

It's only sad if you are uninformed.

  On 1/25/2013 at 9:20 PM, patternoverlap said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 7:52 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do you guys get your cats sterilized too??? it's such a sad thing to do... :(

 

 

It's only sad if you are uninformed.

the way you answered made me picture you as one of those annoying facebook activists who fill the news feed with photos of starving dogs and such...

 

i din't say i was against it, neither that we have a better solution, i just said it is sad, and asked if it also made you sad...

i mean, my cat got sad the days after, no way denying it... and i'm almost sure it affects them from then on...

Edited January 25, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

  On 1/25/2013 at 9:25 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 9:20 PM, patternoverlap said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 7:52 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do you guys get your cats sterilized too??? it's such a sad thing to do... :(

 

 

It's only sad if you are uninformed.

the way you answered made me picture you as one of those annoying facebook activists who fill the news feed with photos of starving dogs and such...

 

i din't say i was against it, neither that we have a better solution, i just said it is sad, and asked if it also made you sad...

i mean, my cat got sad the days after, no way denying it... and i'm almost sure it affects them from then on...

 

I imagine it is quite liberating to not have a constant urge to get off.

  On 1/18/2013 at 10:03 PM, tontonz said:

how many lurkers are on watmm?

Why is CharlesWatkins always so angry?

how many famous musicians hold accounts here?

I eat multiple cans of solid white albacore every single week. Sometimes more than 1 per day. Am I going to die?

  On 1/26/2013 at 5:53 PM, drukqs said:

I eat multiple cans of solid white albacore every single week. Sometimes more than 1 per day. Am I going to die?

yes!

You'll die anyway. In the mean time, take up the sage advice of Vince Offer: stop eating boring tuna, stop having a boring life.

  On 1/26/2013 at 2:29 PM, Ceerial said:

Why is CharlesWatkins always so angry?

 

I change my answer: cocaine.

Edited January 26, 2013 by luke viia

Does a deaf person's internal monologue consist of a hand making signs?

Edited January 27, 2013 by Zephyr_Nova

do blind people dream in sounds?

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:50 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do blind people dream in sounds?

Blind people can see things in their minds eye as well, in fact, I would imagine they are generally quite a bit better at it. I would say that their dreams are probably just the same as anyone else's just with the imagery being a bit more abstract.

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:57 AM, ganus said:

 

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:50 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do blind people dream in sounds?

Blind people can see things in their minds eye as well, in fact, I would imagine they are generally quite a bit better at it. I would say that their dreams are probably just the same as anyone else's just with the imagery being a bit more abstract.

i don't get it, if they were never stimulated by light, how can that be? what is a shape if you have no light?

 

if you have no memory of an image or sound how can you dream about it?

 

even the subconscious stuff, everything you have there is recorded in memory right? it's a mix of fragments of recorded stuff no?

Edited January 27, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

  On 1/27/2013 at 6:53 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

 

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:57 AM, ganus said:

 

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:50 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do blind people dream in sounds?

Blind people can see things in their minds eye as well, in fact, I would imagine they are generally quite a bit better at it. I would say that their dreams are probably just the same as anyone else's just with the imagery being a bit more abstract.

i don't get it, if they were never stimulated by light, how can that be? what is a shape if you have no light?

 

if you have no memory of an image or sound how can you dream about it?

 

even the subconscious stuff, everything you have there is recorded in memory right? it's a mix of fragments of recorded stuff no?

i asked a similar question a year ago or so about what happens to blind people when they take hallucinogens

i forget i think the answer was on reddit

  On 1/27/2013 at 6:53 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

 

 

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:57 AM, ganus said:

 

 

  On 1/27/2013 at 5:50 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

do blind people dream in sounds?

Blind people can see things in their minds eye as well, in fact, I would imagine they are generally quite a bit better at it. I would say that their dreams are probably just the same as anyone else's just with the imagery being a bit more abstract.

 

 

i don't get it, if they were never stimulated by light, how can that be? what is a shape if you have no light?

 

if you have no memory of an image or sound how can you dream about it?

 

even the subconscious stuff, everything you have there is recorded in memory right? it's a mix of fragments of recorded stuff no?

 

 

If you're really curious about it, I would suggest you do some research. I read that blind people visualize sound in their day to day life, so even though they can't see, they can get a visual approximation of what's going on based on the position of sounds & their associations with those sounds.

 

could be wrong or misremembering, but I am 100% confident, at least, that the blind can imagine visual images of things.

 

edit: in response to your edit, I don't think that's true. I have visualized and dreamed about lots of things that are completely alien to my experiences, some of which are very abstract.

Edited January 27, 2013 by ganus

rather than just saying what i think, i thought i'd find a study or whatever to back it up

 

"and those who became blind in infancy do not have visual imagery in their dreams, whereas those blinded in adolescence or young adulthood often retain visual mental imagery in their waking life and in their dreams"

 

http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/kerr_2004.html

im pretty sure that a blind person can visualize shapes. just not certain details in the objects. they have hands, which they use to create the shape in their mind. thats why theyll touch someones face to get a rough approximation of what they look like. so it leads me to believe that they could then be able to dream of those shapes.

it wouldn't be imagery though

 

if you'd never heard a sound, you wouldn't be able to imagine a sound by watching the action that produces a sound. blindly touching something only creates an image of it in your mind if you've seen things before. i think people get confused because people who haven't always blind experience mental imagery from touch (just like anyone does).

Edited January 27, 2013 by tauboo