It's me at different times of the day.

This but with yiff 👌

es eskaliert wirklich

Let's be honest, all three children are looking at tablets.

Much worse, it looks like he's watching 1 guy 1 cup... 🫥

Do...do you really want the context?

I guess it's a matter of preference, because in my mind there's no way listening takes less brainpower than reading.

I don't think this is very related to phantasia.. With a book you can stop and think about things (imaginatively or critically). With video your entire attention is captured and it's quite difficult to step away from the narrative being presented. In my experience audio is somewhere in between, and I'm able to zone out on my own tangent sometimes (but this is annoying, because I miss things)

We usually think in linguistic concepts even when reading a book, one of the most difficult things to do with a student when they are learning drawing is teaching them to really see instead of thinking of linguistic traits. I have aphantasia and it is difficult for me to recall visual traits so instead i focus on visual recipes, or construction while drawing. It is difficult for me to recall faces for example but if i reduce a face to geometric shapes and proportions and do a lot of trial and error so i can approximate a face I've seen.

So when reading is not that I am seeing things, but i am making a conceptual map, an abstraction. Kinda like how dreams are like stories we tell ourselves to the point they might seem like intangible images. Sometimes I feel my brain relate stuff i read to things i've already seen, or builds some conceptual bridge between known concepts to unknown ones.

But reading is also a practice on itself different than hearing. Language has aesthetics, rhythm character. I feel i learn more about the aesthetic beauty of language by reading it on the page than hearing it on an audio book because it forces me to build that bridge between my horizon of understanding and the authors'.

This is especially true for authors that have an entirely different background than me because to understand them i need to read slower and research. Something that audio books doesn't allow with it's predisposed presentation.

aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in your mind's eye.

I guess this extends to reading? I wasn’t sure if that would count as “voluntarily” since it just seems to happen for me.

I read to my kids every night and if there is a movie of the book we’re reading, I will finish the book with them before we watch the movie. In this way, the images they have in their minds as we read are theirs. Sometimes interesting things happen in your mind when it needs to create its own images and I think this is a personal part of reading that makes it more than just consumption but also a creative act unto itself.

Once Hollywood has made Jennifer Lawrence the protagonist, that’s all you’ll be able to see ever again.

However none of this would apply in your case so read or watch or listen however works best for you. Personally I find audiobooks a terrible way to read. My mind wanders instead of focusing more on the text. I realize I’ve been thinking about someone else for several minutes, and ultimately don’t retain as much from the book in the end. It’s like “having the tv on in the background” while doing household chores. That’s fine for stuff I don’t really care about, if I just want to relax and divert my mind. But if I really want to enjoy the book and get everything I can from it, I need to read it.

Brains are obviously different. You can listen and think at the same time. I can read aloud to my kids while thinking of what I need to do at work tomorrow. However if someone is talking to me there is no way I can think about anything except the words coming out of their mouth. This is so much the case that if a person talks haltingly or takes a long time coming to the point, it physically hurts me because my brain is locked on them but they aren’t using it efficiently.

It's not poop. And it's not leaving his pooper.

No, it's something much worse. Just move on.

And this is just boomer humor.

you doubt me? I'm so offended :<

Yes the symbolism in One Man, One Jar cannot be denied.

i think it's one guy one jar

I have ADHD so when I get into reading I read a lot, but I haven't been able to focus on reading anything in like 4 years.