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What is something you thought you knew your whole life and only just recently found out you were wrong the whole time? (lemmy.world)
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Mine is that at my age (barely made it into Gen Z on the old end) I just found out today that a Bo Weevil is an insect (beetle) and not some kind of mole or similar rodent.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can’t picture anything in your mind’s eye? It’s not seeing for real but imagining you are looking at something. Like a memory. When you say abstract of the thing you just think of the words associated with it or along those lines?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    No I can picture things in my head, just not as a vivid image. Images in my mind are vague and detail-less. Like dreams. Mostly I remember the emotions associated with the memory, not what my surroundings looked like at the time.

    FWIW I have ADHD, so asking me to remember anything with any sort of detail is already a challenge enough as-is.

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