Page 164

Someone’s got some ‘splaining to do.

26 Comments

I’ll be damned – they say you see memories in black and white, and it’s true! All the strips I remember I see in black and white indeed! Amazing…

My memory is in color. This comic panel is in color. Wtf are you talking about.

There is apparently a lot of variation in how detailed visual memory is. If you do a search for aphantasia you’ll see there’s been recent research showing some people don’t have a visual memory at all. Others describe the colors as faint or fake. I don’t know if anyone really remembers in black & white, but it’s certainly true that “they say” it — it’s a somewhat persistent myth that dreams and/or memories are like this.

my memories are often sepia tone, or if in 4d colour, words are often blurred out or in cryptic.

Interesting, I have no problem even with huge blocks of text in dreams. BUT, I cannot recall memories with more than two words. For example, I’ll remember a blackboard as blank, even if the board has writing on it. Same with most signs, except “STOP,” “Wrong Way,” etc. Even when I LOOK at writing from more than 3 feet, it’s weirdly blurry (everything looks like an X). Doctor says it’s because I’m autistic. Regardless, I’m a fairly decent writer, able to generate different tones and prosaic styles virtually on command.

Color-wise, my memories, dreams, etc. are all in color. In fact, I can swap out colors on the fly. For example, I can imagine a wall as virtually any color or combination of colors. I can also alter the items in the memory, such as adding/removing a lamp or table, without forgetting how it originally looked, because the memory somehow feels “wrong” if it’s not the original. Our TV was black and white when I was a child so apparently that didn’t affect much.

Glad to see that your arm is feeling good!

Sort of like an all-inclusive Norn’s meeting, this …

Ah, it’s actually not feeling so good anymore after drawing this page. :c

“Pain is Nature’s way of saying ‘QUIT IT!'”

Sorry to hear that, though … … …

So minor cuts and scrapes, but what about psychological damage?

She is a mentally very strong girl I guess. i once had helped a girl who fell from bicycle.

I’m thinking the betrayal would be bad as the fall.

The fall would be nothing, in comparison to the betrayal.

OK a lot of cuts and scrapes. From experience riding a bicycle and getting used as a moving target by drivers I know lots of scrapes hurts worse than broken bones.

Just keep looking at her dad. At least you won’t have to look him in the eye.

That’s not Erin’s dad though. :b

OK, mom’s boyfriend, whatever…

its gonna take a while for her to heal, what would happen to girl on girl romance. Hope Mina takes good care of her from now on. I would love mina to massage her regularly to heal faster 🙂

Oh boy, Erin’s mom looks PISSED. this should be interesting.

Pissed mum is hot

Well, it appears that she’s in much better shape than we were led to believe.

This makes me curios, what is the dads eye color. I don’t think Ive seen his eye ever.

the question is if the dads eyes are like brocks from pokemon where they never open or if there like gins from bleach where they open when hes being more serious.

Or like Grandma Ben from Bone. When she opens her eyes she’s deadly serious.

Or like Satō, when he’s… Wait, no. No no no.

Aphantasia is weird. Even weirder was my talking with my wife about a good friend who turned out to be aphantasiac about just how weird it was and how could one live without a “mind’s eye”.

She fixed me a steely eye, and asked me “just what is so weird about that?”

Uh oh.

It turns out my wife is aphantasiac. The *really* weird part is that she has perhaps the most vivid dreams of anyone I have ever met. But she cannot close her eyes and just conjure a visual scene in her head. Just… nothing. (I checked – both my kids can.) And the cherry on top is that she’s a published novelist. Apparently you don’t need a mind’s eye to be a writer. (Although her editors have been nagging her for “more description” for 30 books now. Now we know why :-))

Bizarre.

It’s not really weird when you consider the neuroplasticity of the human brain. Rather than visually imagining images (for what purpose, exactly?) she’s probably using that brain power for something else. Perhaps, since the visual cortex is extremely methodically-structured, she’s using it to keep track of and imagine story plotlines? You don’t actually *need* cognizant visualization for that – even though the average person would. Typically, the less components the brain uses to complete a task properly, the more effective the end result. The reason is that those unused components can be used to support other less critical but result-enhancing processes instead.

That would of course explain the vivid dreams: those extra tasks would be asleep during the night, allowing the typically suppressed visual components to act in an unrestrained manner.

Alien Hand Syndrome

This comic may not contain any actual aliens.

Page 164