Kristin Piljay 🌲
@kristinpiljay
This is fascinating how various people's brains work so differently. I have an active inner dialogue, but I can silence it, if needed. Also, I'm very visual and can create a visual world with characters in it just by daydreaming or meditation. I can also have conversations with people in my head in a hypothetical reality I imagine in the future. Is this odd? I remember discussing this with a friend and they thought it was totally weird. 😂
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
I have aphantasia, so no visuals in my head, but I get sensations, and my head is FULL of words constantly.
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Kristin Piljay 🌲
@kristinpiljay
Interesting! Can you stop the words if you meditate? Or say, play a musical instrument (or maybe you don't do that).
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
Nope, they just sort of fade down to a dull hum that I'm able to ignore. I've done a 10-day silent mediation treat which helped with learning to tame them, but it's still a constant buzz. And I do actually know how to play musical instruments, though haven't in awhile! I have a clarinet, a violin, a lyre harp, and some kalimbas I haven't busted out in entirely too long!
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Kristin Piljay 🌲
@kristinpiljay
oh, what kind of music do you like to play on violin (when you play it)? I played it for about a decade, but switched to a bowed dulcimer, which is a vertical bowed instrument, because of neck pain. It's tuned like a viola. I mostly play the ukulele (with a low g) and the bowed dulcimer these days, but I also have a guitar and some flutes and in the past had a mandolin, violin, treble viola da gamba, viola and a rented cello. My fav instrument is a cello, but it was hard on my hands.
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