Gold would be given in troy ounces

Imagine one of the top 500 companies in an economy being a company where it’s sole job is to help people pay taxes.

Depends how you define temperature.

“There’s no such thing as cold”

Something at absolute zero would have zero heat.

If you define temperature as heat then it wouldn’t have heat or temperature.

Kind of similar to trying to measure nothing with a ruler. It says 0. There is no length, but is 0mm still a “measurement”?

I’ll never forget trying to read Redwall as a child and trying to remember what character was what animal. I had to write down a cheat sheet.

How do you read?

I have aphantasia and I have to subvocalize each word that I want to read.

Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

Memory or recall of facts. No.

Memory or recall of life experiences. Yes.

From my understanding people can play a “movie” of something like their last birthday party. See who was there, what they were wearing, etc.

Unless I make note of something I’m not going to remember it. I can “subconsciously” make a note of something and recall it but I cannot re

But other than a list of facts I have about my last birthday party, I cannot recall or experience it again.

As for reading. There’s no difference between me reading a biology textbook or a romance novel. I read, soak up knowledge, critically think, and remember.

I have to subvocalize to read. I’m curious on why you assumed we had to read outloud. I don’t know how other aphants read.

Edit: Wait, subvocalize is different than inner speech is what I just read. I have to have my inner voice speak the word.

Apparently dreams aren’t necessarily affected by aphantasia.

I feel like when I do have dreams they are extremely vivid and real because I am seeing my thoughts which isn’t normal.

Yeah took me 36 years.

It takes actually knowing that people actually see images to know that you cannot do that.

Counting sheep never made true sense to me. How is keeping a tally of “imaginary” sheep jumping over an “imaginary” fence supposed to help me fall asleep?

Makes sense when you realize people do it to stop their brains from randomly sending themselves other imaginary that’s going to keep them up. It’s like choosing to turn on the TV to something you could fall asleep to is my understanding.

Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.

When you say “Ma” in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.

So if I was trying to say “I like my horse” or “I like my mother” you’d say “I like my ma”. Unless you had context you wouldn’t know what I was trying to say if I didn’t use the correct tone.

English tones give extra information.

“I LIKE my horse” or “I like MY horse”.

One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.

“I go store” vs “I am going to go to the store now”. The meaning isn’t really lost.

English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say “walked”

Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.

Someone that doesn’t know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. “The man walked with a limp down the street” or “The man limped as he walked down the street”

Then there’s things like “The man hobbled down Bourbon Street” now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.

But getting the general idea is pretty simple. “Man go road”

The lord of the rings trilogy could be a single long movie. I feel like it fits but really isn’t in the spirt of the question.

I feel like it needs to be “First movie was so good, so they made a sequel”

Having 160k + Regular retirement > Regular retirement

160k extra. You have what you’re going to normally retire with plus this 160k.

“Allow her to retire comfortably” is what was stated above.

The debatable part is if they meant immediately retire. If she saves it for retirement then it is “retirement money”

But will it allow her to retire eventually comfortably?

10 year US bond is 4.2%

Let’s say she is 30.

Retirement age is 67. So 37 years until retirement.

6,000€ ×5 is ~$35,000

$35,000 at 4.2% interest for 37 years is $160,388.66 (This isn’t taking into consideration reinvesting the 4.2% interest after 10 years, but also ignoring things like taxes)

But getting $160k when you retire would allow a lot of people to retire comfortably.

“Allow her to retire comfortably”

The debatable part is if they meant immediately retire. Which 5 figures will not let you do. But will it allow her to retire eventually comfortably?

10 year US bond is 4.2%

Let’s say she is 30.

Retirement age is 67. So 37 years until retirement.

6,000€ ×5 is ~$35,000

$35,000 at 4.2% interest for 37 years is $160,388.66 (This isn’t taking into consideration reinvesting the 4.2% interest after 10 years, but also ignoring things like taxes)

But getting $160k when you retire would allow a lot of people to retire comfortably.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t fully understand hypnosis.

I don’t really dream that much. I normally fall asleep and then just wake up. I’ve had dreams before and I can’t say that I saw images or not. I want to say that I did see images because I would describe them as being very vivid and real like almost like I was experiencing it rather than just thinking. But when I wake up I cannot recall any of the images but know how the things in the dream looked and would recall them like I saw something in the real world.

But if my muscles are relaxed how is that supposed to put my brain in a relaxed state?

It means “no imagination”, but the truth is we’ve plenty of imagination, just not visually.

It’s not a coincidence that the word image is in the word imagination. Most people image to imagine.

We have learned you don’t need to image to imagine. If you would have asked me awhile ago if I saw images in my head I would have said yes because I can hold details of an image in my head and “see” it. It’s like I’m imagining an image to imagine.

Just like I can imagine what would happen if you placed a ball at the top of a hill and let go. I don’t need to see images or a video to “imagine” the ball is going to roll down the hill.

Phantasia is a word used by Aristotle to describe “mental images”. What is thought of as “imagining”. He described it as a mind’s eye.

Imagining is the term that is wrongly named. It could be used for only processing thinking with images but like you said you “imagine”. I have aphantasia and I’m just “thinking” about the ball and it rolling down the hill, not imaging it doing it in my head.

I have aphantasia.

Personally I never thought being hypnotized was possible for me

When someone says “Imagine an apple” I think of the concept or idea of an apple. I would need them or me to give more details about what this imaginary apple has. Green/red, leaf/no leaf, connected to tree or not.

The more details I add the more I have to think about it to hold all the details together.

Example, I know my house very well. I can tell you every detail I remember about my house. But if you told me to imagine your house and just threw details at me I wouldn’t be able to remember the majority of them. If I physically walked through your house I could remember a ton of details.

Feel free to ask any questions!

As an aphant I cannot begin to imagine salivating by thinking of biting a lemon.

I believe some aphants can have smell and taste memories since it only has to do with a lack of visual imagine. Just like some cannot hear inner speech.

I cannot say it’s impossible but I’ve never believed in hypnotizism.

Same for me!