I have a hard time looking at people with broken bones, because I can almost hear, feel and internalize the break - and I have never broken a bone. Needless to say, I am not a doctor! I’m a musician.
Thanks for the comment. That’s interesting. I guess there’s also a spectrum of how strong one’s sympathetic responses are & yours are obviously very accrue. Reminds me of how lots of people can’t watch cringe-comedy where the character is socially awkward because it’s indistinguishable from them experimenting social embarrassment.
This was really nice to read, It’s strange how rarely people talk about how different everyones minds are. I like to believe that I’m good at imagining what another person is thinking, however I have almost no emotional sympathy, so its hard for me to empathize with someone who’s feelings are taking over logic. About the mental imagery part, I too have very vivid dreams, however (at least I think) I can’t imagine anything while I’m awake. Also about the comment under me, I hate seeing things like that for the same reason, however if I know (or think) that it’s fake it completely removes that feeling.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. It is hard, especially to empathise with others who have very different emotional blends. I often think that some people’s worst day is another person’s best and vice versa. I half-seriously think we should run experiments on ourselves so that feel the mix of hormones & emotions of others at least once. Then we could have a vocabulary to describe the very different feelings & some experience of them to relate to.
I have a hard time looking at people with broken bones, because I can almost hear, feel and internalize the break - and I have never broken a bone. Needless to say, I am not a doctor! I’m a musician.
Thanks for the comment. That’s interesting. I guess there’s also a spectrum of how strong one’s sympathetic responses are & yours are obviously very accrue. Reminds me of how lots of people can’t watch cringe-comedy where the character is socially awkward because it’s indistinguishable from them experimenting social embarrassment.
This was really nice to read, It’s strange how rarely people talk about how different everyones minds are. I like to believe that I’m good at imagining what another person is thinking, however I have almost no emotional sympathy, so its hard for me to empathize with someone who’s feelings are taking over logic. About the mental imagery part, I too have very vivid dreams, however (at least I think) I can’t imagine anything while I’m awake. Also about the comment under me, I hate seeing things like that for the same reason, however if I know (or think) that it’s fake it completely removes that feeling.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. It is hard, especially to empathise with others who have very different emotional blends. I often think that some people’s worst day is another person’s best and vice versa. I half-seriously think we should run experiments on ourselves so that feel the mix of hormones & emotions of others at least once. Then we could have a vocabulary to describe the very different feelings & some experience of them to relate to.