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26 comments

Someone’s got some ‘splaining to do.

Published in Alien Hand Syndrome as part of Chapter 4 featuring Alima, Erin, Mina, Some Guy on 20. December 2016 by Drake

26 Comments

Max 20. December 2016 @ 23:44 Reply

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…

mekronid 21. December 2016 @ 23:55 Reply

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

dranorter 22. December 2016 @ 20:03 Reply

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.

Bethany 28. December 2016 @ 03:54 Reply

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

mekronid 30. December 2016 @ 21:47 Reply

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.

Bill 21. December 2016 @ 00:21 Reply

Glad to see that your arm is feeling good!

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

Drake 21. December 2016 @ 10:24 Reply

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

Bill 23. December 2016 @ 03:44 Reply

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

Sorry to hear that, though … … …

Opus the Poet 21. December 2016 @ 01:56 Reply

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

Techo 21. December 2016 @ 05:15 Reply

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

dranorter 22. December 2016 @ 20:04 Reply

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

Bill 1. January 2017 @ 22:47 Reply

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

Opus the Poet 23. December 2016 @ 22:33 Reply

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.

leem10538a 21. December 2016 @ 02:10 Reply

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

Drake 21. December 2016 @ 16:39 Reply

That’s not Erin’s dad though. :b

leem10538a 21. December 2016 @ 18:13 Reply

OK, mom’s boyfriend, whatever…

Techo 21. December 2016 @ 05:14 Reply

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 🙂

Shadowrunner2323 21. December 2016 @ 06:42 Reply

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

Cheue 21. December 2016 @ 12:18 Reply

Pissed mum is hot

Bubbaclaw 21. December 2016 @ 17:28 Reply

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

drakeye 22. December 2016 @ 21:50 Reply

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

flash26 23. December 2016 @ 02:55 Reply

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.

leem10538a 23. December 2016 @ 07:00 Reply

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

mekronid 24. December 2016 @ 03:35 Reply

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

tlwest 25. December 2016 @ 21:14 Reply

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.

mekronid 30. December 2016 @ 22:01 Reply

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.

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