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user-inactivated  ·  3393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you guys ever wonder how others TRULY perceive the world?

It was a blast for me to find out that other people, too, hold internal dialogues! Wow! They actually talk to themselves inside their heads! To this day, I don't fully believe it - it's one of those things you have to experience to believe - but the possibility of it, at the time, meant that I wasn't as weird and alien to humanity as I thought of myself, and it was... hopeful. Now that I've found that I'm not actually that weird, I think I understand human beings better.

I'm hoping for an opportunity to get into someone's head if it will give me full access to their perception with me retaining my knowledge of what my perception is, so that I could watch how my mind's new body adjusts and notice what exactly adjusts. I also hope that it might include an ability to watch their thought processes without interrupting, for the same purpose and also to understand others better.

P.S. Turns out, dashnhammit has it quite like me in social situations: that "you're weird" state where people are too shy to come to me and just have a conversation - as is with him/her, I suppose. Too bad I can't reply: I'm blocked and know not why.