hondadriver

Same here. I can't see, hear nor smell anything apart from what is really there.

I can 'imagine' in great detail, have a good visual/ auditory memory, but there is no real picture or sound. It is black / silent. I never forget a face just can't picture them.

I found out about this via an article posted here when I was 45 years old, now 4 years ago.

It never felt and does feel like a disability in any way.

Dreams in contrast are a full sensory experience for me, so the route back from memory to senses is there, only it is blocked when I am awake.

Reminds me of Greenspun's tenth rule of programming (also counts for Java, but this most probably predates it):

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Unfortunately it doesn't work on mobile Chrome on Android.

The obligatory XKCD reference:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

BTW maybe you should add (2016) to the title.

And here is what makes it difficult.

My wife really sees 'extra' images when imagining with eyes open and closed.

I can imagine very well but don't see anything, so no visualisation.

With eyes open I see what is in front in me, and imagine (ltterlaly) what I am thinking about. This can be in high visual detail, but with no picture. With eyes closed it is strange enough harder te imagine, because the black is all consuming.

Long story short:

I think you might have aphantasia but don't know or acknowledge it yet...

Thanks that might work better.

I think especial the other way around.

My wife for sure has a vivid visual experience, and only sees black when asked to see black. So, I don't think people without aphantasia will be identified having it with the question. I also was very specific with all black, not black and an image.

Asking a colour might identify people who do not know they have aphantasia

Because some people I've asked who think they can visualise, say they actually don't see anything, but imagine seeing. So what they see with eyes closed, is 'black'. That's why I've used that question. But they might not know the colour when not told in advance.

I don't think only 1% or even 1% to 4% of the population has this.

Most people do not know they are supposed to 'see' something when imagining something. Same goes for hearing.

I can't do both and discovered this when I was 45.

Like many others I do dream in full colour with sound and I never forget a face.

When doing a quick round at work asking people about it, because I was amazed, I've learned two things.

1. About 50% of the persons asked, confirmed they objectively only see black when closing their eyes and imagining something.

2. Most do not care at all about this subject and are not interested to explore this further.

That seems way more realistic. The salaries in the original article are not common at all for software development positions in Europe as far as I know ...

I threw away a Gravis Ultrasound with the 16-bit daughter board and a Terratec EWS64 XL a few years ago when we moved. .. oops ...

Technically you can do a transaction by holding a mobile EMV payment terminal to someone's card without them knowing (this only works for physical cards, mobile phones need to be unlocked first).

The protection is the fact you just can't get a mobile payment terminal without a whole "know your customer" due diligence process, so the fraud traces directly to the ultimate beneficial owner of the company to which the payment acceptance contract of the payment terminal was provided.

This is the reason this fraud is non-existent in Europe, where tap to pay is already used for years.

Also look at leap motion. https://www.ultraleap.com/product/leap-motion-controller/ (tip: mouser has them in stock and usually the best price) with midipaw http://www.midipaw.com/ (free)

Latency is very low which is very important for this use case. Look on YouTube for demos.

My PoC Xamarin app stopped working today... "The SSL connection could not be established."

What about the already available tooling?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/to...

https://beagleboard.org/

https://github.com/grassator/mass

https://xkcd.com/627/

I use those (DreamLite)and they are getting more and more common in the Netherlands. Every contact lens specialist shop sells them. They around EUR 500 a year including cleaning fluids and check-ups.

Be sure to get checks regularly and practice extra good eye hygiene, because they do have a higher risk of infections, also eye doctors do not recommend them.

Biggest drawback I experience are coronas around bright lights at night, but you do get used to them. I can conformably drive a car at night, because the sight is sharp. The extend also varies from person to person.

If you can tolerate the lenses with your eyes open, you can also already wear them in the evening if you need perfect sight in low light.

On topic: you cannot permanently reverse myopia, but it gets better when you get older for some people.

Ortho-K lenses can however be used by children to stop myopia from getting worse.

Depends on where you live. In the Netherlands, I don't think you can taste the difference or people even prefer tap water, because it tastes more neutral then some mineral waters. Sourcy and Bar-Le-Duc are even bottled from the same source as Utrecht gets its tap water from. Main difference with US is no chlorine is added.

See also: https://www.vewin.nl/english/News/Paginas/Dutch_drinking_wat...

Horizon Zero Dawn starts here...

https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-smoke-smart-home-automa...

Soon...

Also found this : https://www.samotech.co.uk/product-category/samotech-adapter...

Made for UK wall switches.

Maybe this is used? US (and Canada?) only though...

https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/standalonecontro...

I am using both, the bulbs are equally reliable here, the Ikea bridge & app have had their problems in the past, but also work well atm.

I am moving to Deconz (Phoscon) for full flexibility though..

Here friends of hue Gira and Ikea 5 button remotes mounted on a blindplate.

Still wondering what @t0mas88 is using...

The upcoming Lidl remote is very interesting indeed, because it has 4 buttons which could be wired to a regular 2 button up/down push switch (e.g. Gira 014700) as cheaper friends of hue alternative.

Yes, it is for safety reasons.

Can you please provide a name /brand of the switches you use?

Friends of Hue (Gira and others) with EnOcean comes close, but you'll typically bridge the switch AC wires, so there is nothing to pull out and manually control things as backup.

And as I mentioned in another comment, many EU houses have concrete (internal) walls. Tubes for electricity wires come pre-installed in them so together with the other things mentioned, just running some wires can be hard to say the least.

Here in The Netherlands and probably other parts of Europe, you are not allowed to run electricity and network or phone cables through the same tubes. Also the number of wires allowed in a single tube is limited.

Many houses have concrete walls, floors and ceilings, so you don't run extra tubes easily...

Reconfiguring switches is next to impossible and via existing switch wires you can dim/switch the lights but not change colour(temperature).

So here the original switches are removed and the connection is bridged (always on) and battery/kinectic powered ZigBee switches control the lights directly, even if the gateway is down.

I am using it for a zipscreen, it has never failed. Comes with good software & API, but you can flash your own if you want.

If the CT-scan of your lungs looks like a cat, your problems are worse than Covid-19.