I’m thinking about sports as an example. I used to do fencing, and sometimes we would learn a new technique or I would imagine one to do, and I would imagine myself doing it, then it was almost like autopilot where my body would do it just how I imagined, like it was easy. It didn’t happen very often but when it did it felt really cool.
I read “simulating” as “stimulating” at first before I read the entire title
It’s almost never exactly the same as I imagined, but sometimes yeah. And then I’m just like “Oh hey. It’s just like the simulations!”
Did you also said that when you busted into the Jedi Temple alongside Lord Vader?
Cause i did. :)
I was thinking more about the time I took on a bunch of terrorists who had taken over an oil rig that turned out to be a huge conspiracy to censor the internet. Although… the sims didn’t cover the part about roaming naked through a robot’s rectum.
Wat.
Metal Gear Solid 2. Raiden makes a comment about the simulations, since he was pretty much trained entirely in VR. Or so he thought, anyway.
Oooohhh now i get it.
It’s just that the last part was… wtf.
Oh lol, towards the end of the game, you’ve been taken prisoner and you escape without your clothing into Arsenal Gear’s “rectum.” That’s literally what the hallway you’re stuck in for a bit is named.
Good technique.
Visualization I think it’s called?
If you watch the world’s best drivers from the WRC, this is exactly what they do before each stage
It’s pretty common for me to imagine success and then discover an obstacle in reality.
You mean you visualise what you want to do before you do it? Amazing.
That’s how I learned to tie my shoelaces as a kid. I was “taught” by a cousin iirc, who was barely older than me and couldn’t demonstrate it properly. I figured it out on my own by visualising it. It’s the bunny ears method that I use to this day.
Yeah but I have bad self confidence so I don’t expect it to work how I imagine and I’m surprised when it does
This often means I flub whatever it is when it goes right unexpectedly because the temporary shock confuses me just long enough to fail to capitalise on the success.
Yes… envisioning things is an important part of learning or planning something.
I do that a lot. I can even correct mistakes before makong them. I imagine doing the motion and realize the angle that I am aiming is not good lr something.
One time I was able to practice serving volleyball without a ball between two sessions and next week I drastically improved.
Yes, before starting a project I like to visualize all parts of it to see if the project is viable and what will be involved.
Not really, no. I wouldn’t say I’m 100% aphantasic, but I’m really, really bad at “picturing” things in my head and my visual memory is also really poor.
Even if that weren’t the case, I’m also uncoordinated, so I don’t think my body parts would obey the pictures in my head correctly anyway.
I actively do this. I try think about what it would look and feel like in first person before I do something (or as I’m trying to improve at it). Lots of studies show that this can be almost just as beneficial as training
Yeah, thats like the whole point of being able to plan. To conceptualize a potential action or series of actions in your mind and execute on them to make it reality. Most of the time real world variables are slightly different to mental abstractions but sometimes they are close enough for things to go just as planned.
