What makes you special?

[itiwhetu]

I'm me, that is what makes me special.

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

Aaaww that's sweet, thank you! I'd happy make that trade out with you, especially if it helped ease your anxiety. <3
I have depression and PTSD too - sucks, so I get it!

Memory is an odd and fascinating thing. When I studied psychology at university they taught a lot about how memories are laid down and stored in the brain, how they can become inaccurate over time, unreliability of witness testimony because of how easily distorted they are etc... really interesting stuff, which ironically, I wish I could remember more about!

It is truly strange. I mean the brain is fascinating organ.

One of the things I hate the most is I will dream in a hyper realistic way (not all dreams contain Velociraptors and orca whale in my living room carpet ). I can have a dream, of a typical day in my life, hear the voices, see the faces of people I know and also faces of others I don't (often random people I had seen the walking the street at one point or another) have interactions and then my alarm clock rings.

 

[itiwhetu]

It is truly strange. I mean the brain is fascinating organ.

One of the things I hate the most is I will dream in a hyper realistic way (not all dreams contain Velociraptors and orca whale in my living room carpet ). I can have a dream, of a typical day in my life, hear the voices, see the faces of people I know and also faces of others I don't (often random people I had seen the walking the street at one point or another) have interactions and then my alarm clock rings.

I dream in Techni color with surround sound and if I dream about work, I wake up feeling like I have done a full day on the job.

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

Honestly don’t know what makes me special per say. Lots of my interests are the interesting of many other people.

Probably my most prominent would be my photography.

My Personal Best Photographs...

Here are some of my personal best photos, more to come later. Nature first: Hope you enjoy!

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I would say it does make you pretty special. You have good eye and many fantastic shots!

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

I dream in Techni color with surround sound and if I dream about work, I wake up feeling like I have done a full day on the job.

Argh, I hate that feeling. It's like, man, didn't I just do a whole shift now I got to get up and do it again. What is really freaky is when stuff in your dreams happens IRL. The feeling of deja vu can get super trippy.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

It is truly strange. I mean the brain is fascinating organ.

One of the things I hate the most is I will dream in a hyper realistic way (not all dreams contain Velociraptors and orca whale in my living room carpet ). I can have a dream, of a typical day in my life, hear the voices, see the faces of people I know and also faces of others I don't (often random people I had seen the walking the street at one point or another) have interactions and then my alarm clock rings.

Dreaming about dinos is awesome! I'd love that dream And Orcas are one of my favourite creatures ever - amazing animals. But yep, vivid dreams can be really freaky.

I've noticed that I've had a few fish-related anxiety dreams ever since I took up this hobby! Like dreaming I'd found a tank that I'd forgotten and neglected for months, but somehow some fish had survived and I was trying to save them and panicking in the dream - then still felt guilty for the neglect when I woke up, even knowing it wasn't real! Or the time I dreamt that my fish were escaping the tank by flying through the air, and I was running around trying to catch them and put them back...

Clearly, my concerns for the welfare of my fish translates to anxiety about it in my subconscious too, and my brain is trying to process and master that! The brain is definitely a weird thing, and some of us are especially weird, lol

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

Dreaming about dinos is awesome! I'd love that dream And Orcas are one of my favourite creatures ever - amazing animals. But yep, vivid dreams can be really freaky.

If they were both not trying to eat me at the time, I would agree with you! Those Orca were trying to pop me off the couch like a seal! Yep, no documented case of an orca whale harming a human, but my brain was like, "Watch this"

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

If they were both not trying to eat me at the time, I would agree with you! Those Orca were trying to pop me off the couch like a seal! Yep, no documented case of an orca whale harming a human, but my brain was like, "Watch this"

had you recently watched that documentary where they showed that orcas co-ordinate their hunt to create waves that splash a seal off of an ice block? But you were the seal and the sofa the ice!

That doc and footage was the first time the behaviour had been documented in the wild - absolutely mind-blowing. I was reared watching David Attenborough documentaries, and they've only gotten better in the decades since, with improved technology and cameras letting us see parts of nature that we never could before. I love it, endlessly fascinating.

 

[itiwhetu]

Argh, I hate that feeling. It's like, man, didn't I just do a whole shift now I got to get up and do it again. What is really freaky is when stuff in your dreams happens IRL. The feeling of deja vu can get super trippy.

I'm a baker by trade and can work a whole night shift in my dreams, it gets really bad if there is a breakdown and you start ringing engineers and electricians.

 

[SomethingsFishy24]

had you recently watched that documentary where they showed that orcas co-ordinate their hunt to create waves that splash a seal off of an ice block? But you were the seal and the sofa the ice!

That doc and footage was the first time the behaviour had been documented in the wild - absolutely mind-blowing. I was reared watching David Attenborough documentaries, and they've only gotten better in the decades since, with improved technology and cameras letting us see parts of nature that we never could before. I love it, endlessly fascinating.

Oh, I am sure of it. I love Attenborough docs, the tone and sound of his voice is amazing!

We watch a lot of wildlife docs at the house. My older boys (4 and 7) are insanely ok with the circle of life. They root for both sides, I mean you don't want to see the antelope go down but the lion has to eat. We watched Wild babies on Netflix the other day and the first scene is a seal giving birth. Needless to say I had to explain a little bit without getting too graphic 7yo understood, however, the 4 yo insisted that the baby seal was "pooped" out.

 

[Lemon]

Finally convinced my sister to send me a photo her hair/markings so tada
The bribe was she stole my hoodie (she also used a filter so her eye/s look brighter then irl because /obviously/ she isn’t pretty enough already XD she is even more self conscious then me heh)View attachment 160754

Here is a second one of my sister. You can see her eye color much better and as you can see she was patches on her hand/wrist too(although I don’t)

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

@Lemon you're both very pretty Do you have a pic of the three of you together? Being a triplet is awesome! I always wanted a sister when I was a kid, only had a brother, and it's not the same! Being triplets must be even better if you're close. And means you can always look out for each other as you go through life together.

 

[AmyKieran]

I really don’t have a lot of things that make me special lol

I’m pretty strong I guess lol

I used to be in the gym for 5 days + a week plus swimming for years, although I don’t even look at gyms now, I’ve kept the strength lol

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Nothing remotely special about me....I'm afraid that I am not that opinionated about myself to think that there is anything "special" about me.

I am who I am...take me or leave me, I do not care and will not lose any sleep over it.

 

[Colin_T]

I have an excellent memory bank in terms of people, places, things and events that hold detail for many years. I have memories from when I was very, very small that are still clear even now. I imagine this is another reason why I dream vividly, of course late night snacks not helping in that. I can recall and recite the medical history of a case I was on even if we haven't seen that pet for years. I can recognize a person I have met, from behind, even if we have only met briefly face to face. Names to faces are a cake walk. Useless trivia and quotes from movies. The name of the movie, when we first saw it, where we sat and who was with us and all that happened that day even if it was ages ago. In terms of art, this means I can sketch something I saw without having it for reference before me with a good degree of accuracy.

This however, does not help my anxiety, because I can clearly visualize events in my life I get to over analyze them whenever I want. Even if the event was decades ago.

Interestingly, my younger brother has Aphantasia.

It sort of sounds like you have autism, not in a bad way but you can remember things more clearly than others. A bit like a Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, only not as annoying as him

I can't remember people's names or faces unless I have seen them a hundred times. But I can recognise people from what they wear, the way they move and walk, and by their pet dogs. And the worst part about that is I used to study faces and could identify people from markings on their skin, freckles, moles, etc, and from their eyes, but couldn't look at their faces on the whole and say that is so and so.