“Who as far as I can tell are with few exceptions the sort of people who are extreme outliers on every psychometric test ever invented.”
I perform at the SD 1 level on IQ tests, and I enjoy this website very much. An example of the “typical less-wronger” fallacy, perhaps? Edit: “with few exceptions” is a caveat, but likely not a large enough one. There are surely many people like me lurking here, because are many more SD 1 performers in the population than there are outliers.
When I close my eyes, even if I happen to be in a perfectly dark room, my visual field contains fuzzy patches of colour, sort of like an afterimage of a christmas tree without the tree, and persistent. Sometimes the fuzzy patches are blue other times they are orange. I used to think this must be universal, but now I have significant doubts about that.
Also, if I stare at the walls of a dimly lit room for long enough, especially when I am tired, the room seems to ‘shift’ or shake around me somehow. This is only a rough description, because the words to precisely describe the ‘transformation’ of the walls around don’t really exist in English. Does anyone else experience these things?
When I close my eyes, even if I happen to be in a perfectly dark room, my visual field contains fuzzy patches of colour, sort of like an afterimage of a christmas tree without the tree, and persistent. Sometimes the fuzzy patches are blue other times they are orange. I used to think this must be universal, but now I have significant doubts about that.
Yes, I see things like that, too.
Also, if I stare at the walls of a dimly lit room for long enough, especially when I am tired, the room seems to ‘shift’ or shake around me somehow. This is only a rough description, because the words to precisely describe the ‘transformation’ of the walls around don’t really exist in English.
Yeah, I think I’ve felt something like that, although it’s pretty rare for me to experience it. It’s a little like when you’re feeling dizzy because you’ve been spinning...
“Who as far as I can tell are with few exceptions the sort of people who are extreme outliers on every psychometric test ever invented.”
I perform at the SD 1 level on IQ tests, and I enjoy this website very much. An example of the “typical less-wronger” fallacy, perhaps? Edit: “with few exceptions” is a caveat, but likely not a large enough one. There are surely many people like me lurking here, because are many more SD 1 performers in the population than there are outliers.
When I close my eyes, even if I happen to be in a perfectly dark room, my visual field contains fuzzy patches of colour, sort of like an afterimage of a christmas tree without the tree, and persistent. Sometimes the fuzzy patches are blue other times they are orange. I used to think this must be universal, but now I have significant doubts about that.
Also, if I stare at the walls of a dimly lit room for long enough, especially when I am tired, the room seems to ‘shift’ or shake around me somehow. This is only a rough description, because the words to precisely describe the ‘transformation’ of the walls around don’t really exist in English.
Does anyone else experience these things?
Yes, I see things like that, too.
Yeah, I think I’ve felt something like that, although it’s pretty rare for me to experience it. It’s a little like when you’re feeling dizzy because you’ve been spinning...