In another thread I read that Aspies and Auties like to watch rotating objects. I have a theory about that, based on Ouspensky's books.
Consider a 2-dimensional world and a being living on a plane. Sensing lines, the plane being will not see angles.
Imagine an angle in a line. Approaching the line, the being will regard the angle as a strange property of the line, he will regard the angle as motion. Our third dimension is time for the plane being. He may call a line with an angle or a curved line moving matter.
Straight lines will appear to him as immobile matter. A cube moving through the plane of the 2-dimensional world, in other words a really moving line, will appear inconceivable, animated, alive.
Suppose the world of cats and dogs is 2-dimensional to them, because of their brain structure. For example cats like to play with a ball of wool. Why? Because to the cat the ball of wool seems animated, alive, very interesting to them.
Suppose there is a similarity between Aspies/Auties brains and animal brains (I made this same assumption earlier, in another thread about meaning). I suspect that Aspies and Auties with an interest in watching rotating objects, unconsciously perceive the rotating objects as alive. That's why rotating objects are so fascinating for Aspies/Auties to watch.
One kid who went to school with me was fascinated by microwave ovens - he would watch the food go round until it stopped. He's 26 now and he still enjoys it!!
Thanks for your response, Electric Dragon.
Post 1 is probably hard to understand because I used too few words to explain what I mean. The following text is from Ouspensky's "Tertium Organum". In my opinion it's the best book ever written.
"... But this does not mean that it cannot know the character of motions going on in the world and cannot conform itself to them. On the contrary, we see that the animal orientates itself perfectly among the motions of the objects of our three-dimensional world. Here comes into play the aid of instinct, i.e., the ability, developed by millenniums of selection, to act expediently without consciousness of purpose. Moreover, the animal discerns perfectly the motions going on around it.
But discerning two kinds of phenomena, two kinds of motion, the animal will explain one of them by means of some incomprehensible inner property of objects, i.e., in all probability it will regard this motion as the result of the animation of objects, and the moving objects as animated beings.
The kitten plays with the ball or with its tail because ball and tail are running away from it.
The bear will fight with the beam which threatens to throw him off the tree, because in the swinging beam he senses something alive and hostile.
The horse is frightened by the bush because the hush unexpectedly turned and waved a branch.
In the last case the bush need not even have moved at all, for the horse was running, and it seemed therefore as though the bush moved, and consequently that it was animated. In all probability all movement is thus animated for the animal. Why does the dog bark so desperately at the passing carriage? This is not entirely clear to us for we do not realize that to the eyes of the dog the carriage is turning, twisting, grimacing all over. It is alive in every part--the wheels, the top, the mud-guards, seats, passengers--all these are moving, turning."
See chapter VI and IX in
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/to/index.htm
This is the background of my explanation/theory why (some) Aspies/Auties like to watch rotating objects (perception of aliveness).
I have found the idea of a possible similarity between Aspie/Autie brains and animal brains in other books.
One kid who went to school with me was fascinated by microwave ovens - he would watch the food go round until it stopped. He's 26 now and he still enjoys it!!
I'm 41 and it fascinates me. Why should that stop at a certain age?
I also like watching the turntable of my old record-player as well.
I skipped reading and wanted to say that I think that's because it's stimulating. Just a simple belief.
I'm 41 and it fascinates me. Why should that stop at a certain age?
I also like watching the turntable of my old record-player as well.
Why do you like watching rotating objects? Does my explanation in this thread makes sense?
(On some days I have difficulty explaining what I mean, sometimes I cannot find words. Yesterday and today it's terrible...)
Why do you like watching rotating objects? Does my explanation in this thread makes sense?
(On some days I have difficulty explaining what I mean, sometimes I cannot find words. Yesterday and today it's terrible...)
Honestly, I never thought about it.
I tend to believe, that it's simply fascinating and in a way stimulating and relaxing at once.
Honestly, I never thought about it.
I tend to believe, that it's simply fascinating and in a way stimulating and relaxing at once.
Just as speculation: you might think it's fascinating because you unconsciously perceive rotating objects as alive. And you might experience it as relaxing because my guess is at that moment you don't use the part of the brain that is involved in efforts.
Do you have problems seeing depth? Do you experience the world as flat (2-dimensional without depth) instead of 3-dimensional? Can you see perspective (trees in the distance being smaller than trees closeby)?
Honestly, I never thought about it.
I tend to believe, that it's simply fascinating and in a way stimulating and relaxing at once.
Just as speculation: you might think it's fascinating because you unconsciously perceive rotating objects as alive. And you might experience it as relaxing because my guess is at that moment you don't use the part of the brain that is involved in efforts.
Do you have problems seeing depth? Do you experience the world as flat (2-dimensional without depth) instead of 3-dimensional? Can you see perspective (trees in the distance being smaller than trees closeby)?
HAHAHA, it's fascinating because the objects are NOT alive. Their behavior is much more predictable than that of living objects.
I usually don't expierience problems in seeing depth.
The last time it happend when they increased the dosage of my Lustral (wich I take for my depression and my anxiety). I was unable to drive for a few days then.