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Post by oh oooh on Aug 6, 2023 23:00:43 GMT
A friend of mine says he gets mental stimulation from reading. I find looking at text gives me brain ache. But seeing and hearing things awakens the bingy boos, makes me happy.
We all need our heads tickled by something external, don't we? What's your favourite source?
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 6, 2023 23:18:34 GMT
Reading! Because of the immersion and detail.
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Post by souphound on Aug 7, 2023 2:43:39 GMT
Visuals do it for me. Pictures, video, live in front of me. That gets my thinking gears in motion. Text, not so much.
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Post by tory on Aug 7, 2023 6:44:31 GMT
Conversation is great for me - bouncing ideas off each other. I've had great, stimulating chats with both Dougie and G face to face.
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Post by fonz on Aug 7, 2023 7:04:01 GMT
Music. Not just passive listening, but creating. The processes around making music at home, with all the technical challenges of recording it and processing etc
I kid myself that I’m a ‘creative’, and I am to an extent, but I couldn’t do it professionally. Getting stuff finished is hard work, and no one cares anyway.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 7, 2023 10:39:32 GMT
I tend not to want mental stimulation much, away from work. The job kind of means my brain is constantly thinking over logic problems and issue resolution, and this just goes round and round in my head all day long. Anything that takes my mind off that is great, so books, films, etc, but I don't see that as necessarily stimulation, more of blanking out all the other noise.
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Post by rayge on Aug 7, 2023 11:46:34 GMT
We all need our heads tickled by something external, don't we? What's your favourite source? I'm not really sure what this means: suspect it's another aspect of my difference. Reading,to me, is an internal experience. Apart from websites, it's something I rarely do any more, although in the pre-digital age my appetite for print was voracious. What stimulates me to be creative (which in my case means doing or making something that shares aspects of my world) is experience, really, rather than art in any form, and if that experience is mediated by proper psychedelics (only hash these days, alas) so much the better. My main creative/sharing pursuits these days are photography and gardening and writing posts in forums.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2023 12:37:10 GMT
It used to be basketball, but now it's just the gym and talking to people.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 7, 2023 15:49:57 GMT
It used to be basketball, but now it's just the gym and talking to people. Might have been easier to just say 'I don't do mental stimulation'.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 9, 2023 10:25:46 GMT
I struggle to read these days with is annoying but my attention span is not what it was and I spend all my working day staring at a laptop screen so spending time staring at small text in a book isn't the most appealing thing these days. Recently I've experienced eye strain as well so clearly my work is having an impact.
Consequently I tend to favour talks, conversations, music and essays as opposed to books. I've also started listening to more podcasts too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2023 11:12:55 GMT
An hour without looking at the screen before you go to bed helps me, the blue screen filter on your laptop and phone is good too. There's other little things you can do to that helps me anyway.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 9, 2023 13:05:29 GMT
I think the fact you have to focus when reading a book means you get more out of it. It's very easy to switch off a bit when listening to a podcast for example.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Aug 9, 2023 13:09:19 GMT
I read for roughly an hour every night before bed. I suppose at this point it's more habitual than anything, but I really do enjoy it, all the more so if it's an exceptionally good book.
I had to start using non-prescription reading glasses a few years ago, and they definitely help with the eye strain.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 9, 2023 13:14:16 GMT
I like finding out about stuff. It was what I was trying to get at when I started this thread, although the response was a bit disappointing! preludin.proboards.com/thread/6268/researchWhen you get into doing something like that it's really immersive and stimulating. At the moment I'm trying to find out if a mid century vase of mine was made by a fairly obscure Italian designer Verzolini as I suspect. It involves lots of comparing of form and technique, historical research, translating Italian sites for information etc. You can spend hours on this stuff!
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Post by davey on Aug 9, 2023 17:23:38 GMT
I seem to need to switch up the ‘delivery system’ fairly often. On any given day I’ll look to film, music, podcasts, books or magazines, sometimes poetry - and yes… discussions here and elsewhere online.
The best is real-time conversations.
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