• Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah I can’t hold the numbers in my mind. It’s like i can grasp the concept of a number for a split second and then it’s gone like smoke. How do you add two numbers together in your mind? Like, what happens?

    • andz@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Okay. That seems like an extremely inconvenient thing to live with. Must be extremely frustrating.

      For me it’s more like …I can’t see a 7 or an 8 but I don’t have a problem with taking 2 from the 7 and “holding” the remaining 5 in my memory while I add up 8 + 2.

      On the other hand if someone asks about what an apple is I can tell them they come in red or green varieties but ask me to draw one and it’ll be the ugliest apple ever put on paper. Meanwhile I can draw just fine if I have a model in front of me.

      The thing I seriously don’t understand is why I can see my dreams though. Never made any sense to me whatsoever.