I was thinking about something just now and tried to imagine some concept advising me (like morality play style, like getting advice from Temperance or something; the example isn’t important and is distracting) and I realized something.
Those of you who experience this phenomenon naturally: where do you experience it? When I tried just now, I noticed my brain trying to create the presence directly side-behind my head. After this post and realizing people literally had the experience of being talked to or advised by entities, it didn’t occur to me:
Do you experience the entity as spatially located near your shoulder?
I can’t really decompose the location very well as it seems like it’s in a hacky part of “felt location” instead of literally being part of my world model, and I suspect the disconnect is just one of those human brain glitches we have to live with for now, but I’m only realizing that this too is likely totally literal.
This reminds me of having “night terrors” as a kid, where I would hallucinate presences while having a bad time. I don’t have a specific place I’m going with this, just that the “felt location of a concept” thing seems to use the same wires.
I have a variety of spatial locations, and sometimes no spatial location at all.
Sometimes there is a literally-on-or-just-behind-my-shoulder thing. Sometimes I intuit a shoulder advisor like twelve feet away off on a 45º angle. Sometimes I just see a face in my mind, and it doesn’t have location; it just sort of “fills” my mental vision.
I was thinking about something just now and tried to imagine some concept advising me (like morality play style, like getting advice from Temperance or something; the example isn’t important and is distracting) and I realized something.
Those of you who experience this phenomenon naturally: where do you experience it? When I tried just now, I noticed my brain trying to create the presence directly side-behind my head. After this post and realizing people literally had the experience of being talked to or advised by entities, it didn’t occur to me:
Do you experience the entity as spatially located near your shoulder?
I can’t really decompose the location very well as it seems like it’s in a hacky part of “felt location” instead of literally being part of my world model, and I suspect the disconnect is just one of those human brain glitches we have to live with for now, but I’m only realizing that this too is likely totally literal.
This reminds me of having “night terrors” as a kid, where I would hallucinate presences while having a bad time. I don’t have a specific place I’m going with this, just that the “felt location of a concept” thing seems to use the same wires.
I have a variety of spatial locations, and sometimes no spatial location at all.
Sometimes there is a literally-on-or-just-behind-my-shoulder thing. Sometimes I intuit a shoulder advisor like twelve feet away off on a 45º angle. Sometimes I just see a face in my mind, and it doesn’t have location; it just sort of “fills” my mental vision.
A range of things; nothing consistent.