For instance: When you talk to someone on the phone/regularly, you build up a mental picture in your mind of what they might look like.
Why do you think that we do this?
Is it because of their tone of voice? Attitude? Personality?
What reasons do you think we do this, and why?
When you do actually meet them, how often do they actually look the way you thought they were going to? Not very often, in my experience... But I would be interested to hear more about what your opinions are and why you think we do it, and your experiences upon meeting people after talking to them, too. 😊
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This isn't about eventually meeting up with someone either. This could just be that you talk to a random person on the phone.. Or they you talk to regularly but not ever see.
Why do you think that we build up a mental image of someone we've never seen before?
We humans are very visual. In the absence of that, the brain creates images. I think we have a need to SEE... hence why things like Insta and Snap and Tik Tok are so powerful. They fill in blanks.
When I text, I do not picture the person, I might picture their lips and their eyes and their arms or chin, or sometimes just their skin complexion and I’ve had conversations, where I only pictured their hair and clothes.
Not me, all I see is the Motor 👄 moving with brain impulse speed and waiting for a breath.
🤔, she may be AI….
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the first time i saw her in march of 2018 she looked exactly like her pictures. and each time i saw her she looked just like her pictures. i used to send her pictures of myself and even videos of myself. most of the time pictures and videos look like how the person would look like in person. once in a great while you'll find it's not always the case
Why the fuck does it "set you up for disappointment"? 🤔😂 I'm clearly not my this, unless you're on about male/female/sexual attraction stuff. Which isn't what this is about... But tell me, so I know 🥰
Because if you're talking to someone and you picture them in your head. Then you meet and they are totally opposite of what you pictured. Wouldn't you be disappointed?
Didn't say anything about sexual gratification. If you're looking for just that, then just put a blindfold on and go for it. Might have to use viagra in addition... lol But if you are doing it as a blind date, sometimes you got to roll the dice. Sometimes you'll get boxcars and others you'll get snake-eyes.
Why growling? You never been disappointed? A guy says he looks like Ryan Gosseling. You two meet and he looks like Zach Galifianakis. That wouldn't disappoint you?
You're saying that you don't in any way, build up any mental image at all of the person you speak to in the other end of the line? Whether you meet them, or not? 🤔
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