Mental map of the internet: anyone else get that?

Mar 17, 2019 10:31

Last week, I was going through a mental list of the sites where I wanted to crosspost some
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braxen March 31 2019, 19:49:46 UTC
I recognize this way of thinking, but my placement of internet addresses are a bit more "fuzzy" than yours. For me the most prominent example would be time and events: they have a "place" on a "map". I had no idea why other people found that so strange until (not even 10 years ago) I read an article in the newspaper about Synesthesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia. That cleared up a lot that I had been wondering about, and I immediately rushed to a colleague (because I was a work) and told her. Strangely enough, her mind worked in the same way and her pictures of time, were very close to my own. Strange - because it's not that big a workplace and Synesthesia is not that common. She didn't know about it before either, and suddenly remembered something about a former boyfriend that had confused her before. He had told her that he had furnished and decorated his living room in accordance with his favourite jazz album. She had never understood what he meant by that, but now thought that music must have connected different parts of his brain. I would have loved to see that living room from inside his mind.

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thenewbuzwuzz March 31 2019, 19:58:25 UTC
Oh, cool! It's really fuzzier in my mind too, it was just easier to draw it this way.

Ruuger said synesthesia too, on the Dreamwidth side of this post. ^^ "a form of sequence-space synesthesia", to be exact, which makes perfect sense because that's mainly to do with time, and you and me both visualize time, too!

That living room sounds fabulous! :)

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