Subject: I think I'll give it a go.
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Posted on: 2016-05-28 05:49:00 UTC
Uh, basically, I've discovered a lot of things that I do are not quite normal. I wanted to know if anyone else does these certain things and I thought, well, what's a great place to conduct a survey? An online forum!
So, uh, answer what you like.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Do you dream in color?
Do you remember your dreams?
Do you have recurring dreams?
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Which school subjects come easily to you?
Well, um, I just thought this would be an interesting exercise. If you answer any, thankssss (it'll make me feel a lot better to have other perspectives on the matter).
Uh, if you have any other questions you can add them to the thread.
Yes, I listen to music while doing both, but more with writing than reading. I get stressed out when writing sometimes, and music helps keep me focused and relaxed. It's also useful for setting a tone for a scene.
When writing I prefer music without lyrics that matches the tone of what I'm writing, usually movie soundtracks or classical music. When I read I usually just find something in my music library that fits what I'm reading.
Sometimes. I can get lost in the story and just start seeing it while I read, but I also like to sit back and appreciate the language of the book.
Usually. It may not always be particularly bright color, but I'm pretty sure it's there.
Only fragments if I don't write them down. I keep a journal of the really interesting or weird ones, and ever since I started they've grown easier and easier to remember.
I've only ever had one, and it was more of nightmare. Suffice it to say being chased by velociraptors is equally terrifying the second time around.
Only rarely with people I know well, but with acquaintances or strangers I sometimes just need to get away.
Certain aspects of history, art, and a some more basic science.
Well, that was fun.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
Read, no; write, definitely yes - usually music without words, but not always.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Sci-fi and fantasy - and I've actually written PPC missions to music, too.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book?
This is a tricky one, so I'm guessing 'sometimes' is probably the most accurate.
Do you dream in color?
Always.
Do you remember your dreams?
I dream very regularly and this can go from knowing I was dreaming something but not quite being able to pull back precisely what once I wake, to remembering it in incredible detail and being able to insert it into my writing. Some dreams I recall upon having a sequel dream, which can be years later. Occasionally I lucid dream or, more frequently, semi-lucid dream.
Do you have recurring dreams?
Yes; I have even managed to map certain locations and regions that have built up over the years. Certain rules and abilities also recur and I have been known to jump back to a previous point in some dreams and do something different.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Often.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
Biology and Chemistry.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
Sometimes. I find that a little music here and there can provide inspiration for a writing scene or something— as if I write to capture a mood behind a song. I can't read or write if the song has got lyrics that I can understand, though. It's too distracting.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
When writing action scenes, I usually listen to some sort of battle music from some game or the other. For example, a hand-to-hand fight scene might by inspired by, say, the latest DOOM's BFG Division.
For reading, I usually put something calm in the background. Nothing specific.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate and forget that you're reading a book?
Like moviemode? Yeah, that happens all the time. But I'm still, y'know. Reading. I never forget that I'm holding the book in my hands and reading words off a page.
Do you dream in color?
I honestly can't remember the last time I dreamt. Must've been well over 5 years or something. I did dream in colour, way back when.
Do you remember your dreams?
Well, if I can't even recall the last time I dreamt...
Do you have recurring dreams?
Guess not.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Well, I can't exactly keep on talking to someone for hours and hours and hours, can I? In all seriousness, I'm more of an introverted type, but one who likes to chat. It's strange.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
Mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, languages, and history. I'm so-so at anything involving physical activity and I utterly despise arts and music.
Absolutely useless subjects. Why must my painting be graded and my music be evaluated? I don't get it.
1) It seems that there's a large amount of introverts here. Truly surprising.
2) I'd argue that you can objectively tell good art from bad. I'd also argue that forcing people to make art is idiotic since not everybody has the talent, will or energy to do so. Grading them on that is even more idiotic.
Music is very important to study along with.
Tom Falater
And I apologise. It would probably help avoid similar misunderstandings if you put information like that in your first comment; we can't know what you're thinking, and giving people your reasons is never bad.
hS
It's just, I didn't actually want people searching it, due to the content, but I see your point that it was rather senseless of me to say that without an explanation.
—doctorlit being senseless
I've never seen you before this post, so I assume you're a newbie. Generally, we like newbies to introduce themselves in a separate post before replying to preexisting threads. I'm glad you found your way over here, though, so if you're interested in what we do, here's a bucket of popcorn to eat while you read the important links at the top of the Board!
Or not. Well-chosen answers.
1. Music is almost a constant when writing, less so when reading - but even then, I'm frequently listening to something.
2. Soundtrack music! Epic-ish, orchestral, no vocals - I want something I can feel without having words to distract me.
3. I'm about halfway there? I picture things vividly, but I don't lose track of the reality of the book.
4. Yes! I dream in color. Usually. I've had a couple very black-and-white dreams that I can recall, but black-and-white was part of their nature, not a normal thing.
5. Sometimes - depends on the dream, and the night. I'll often only wake up with fragments, scattered scenes and images.
6. I only very rarely have recurring dreams. I'll fairly frequently revisit locations from previous dreams (for example, I've got a fairly consistent not!Seattle running around my headspace), but exact replays are a rarity. When they do happen, they're frequently back-to-back, with more intense stuff - I'll wake from a nightmare, drift back to sleep, and the whole thing starts over again from the top.
7. I am a massive introvert, with a side of autism-spectrum! Social stuff is fun, but it takes energy, and some days I have less energy to spend than others.
8. Math and computer science, especially the more visual maths, come really easy for me - I had a graph theory course in college that everyone else complained about incessantly - I 4.0ed it without even trying.
1a. Yes! Very much yes.
1b. Not particularly - though sometimes I can get on a [insert band here] kick and try to find all their songs.
2. Sometimes. If the descriptions are done well enough, it can happen for me, but the feeling isn't all-consuming or anything.
3. Sometimes? Probably mostly, since I can't remember any dreams specifically being in black and white.
4. As stated above, mostly.
5. Yes! Usually centering on mazes/houses that I have to escape. I'll do it the first time, then get sidetracked on repetitions.
6. Yes. Very much so.
7. ... All of them? I never really had a hatred of anything I did in school (which probably makes me an outlier). I prefer working alone in most cases, though.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
Very rarely while writing, and never anything with vocals. Never while reading. I have a tendency to focus too much on the music and not on the actual task.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
I try to pick music that's thematically appropriate for what I'm writing. So jazz and blues for something detective-y and noir, for example, or ragtime for a turn-of-the-century tale. I might change the music depending on the scene as well. If the climax in big and dramatic, the music should fit that.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Sort of. I do imagine what's going on in my head, but I'm always cognizant of the fact that I'm reading a book. I will occasionally go back and reread sections, or even put the book down for a little bit to mull over the most recent event.
Do you dream in color?
Yes.
Do you remember your dreams?
Rarely. It's more common if it's a dream that pops up again and again, or if it's a dream inspired by something in the real world. If I read a bunch of books in a series or play one game for a long period of time, chances are I might dream something about those subjects.
Do you have recurring dreams?
As I mentioned in the last one, I do. Unfortunately, they're almost always nonsensical stress dreams. Typically I'm back in college, struggling with courses that I would have never taken in real life (typically high-level mathematics or something).
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Yes. I'm not good in large groups, particularly with people I don't know all that well. Eventually my social reserves run dry in such circumstances and I leave for the privacy of my own home.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
History and literature/English.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
Yes. I really enjoy listening to music while writing.
Specific genre?
Certain stories that I write have an album or song associated with them. I don't stick to one genre overall with my music but I do prefer something fast and exciting with a good beat while I'm trying to write.
When you read a book...
Sometimes I can become so absorbed I don't think that I'm actually reading anymore so I think the answer here is yes. But it doesn't happen every time so...
Dream in color?
Yes
Remember your dreams?
Sometimes. I'll go for periods of no dreams but then I'll start remembering them.
Recurring dreams?
Maybe? I dont really have dreams that REPEAT themselves but I do have recurring themes, locations, situations, etc. Kind of like sequel dreams.
Social things?
Yes! I'm definitely an introvert that needs to recharge.
School subjects?
Uh, writing and English I'm good at. I also am a steady hand at Statistics.
1: I don't really listen to music (I know, I'm such a wierdo).
2: When I'm reading I see the words but it's like there's a movie going on inside my head if that makes any sense.
3: Yes I do dream in color.
4: I remember most of my dreams, although only bits of some.
5: I have recurring dreams.
6: It really depends on the social thing. Sometimes I'll keep doing whatever it is, other times it might be too much.
7: I've never had a problem with school. I really hate remembering dates though.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
When reading? Absolutely not. It's impossible for me to concentrate on the Words if other Words are being thrown into my ears. Even lyric-less music is way too distracting, since my brain then tries to follow along with the notes.
When writing? I . . . can. I usually wouldn't, but sometimes if I'm writing a mission or regular fan story, I'll listen to something off a related soundtrack. Again, it cannot be something with lyrics, or they will distract me from the words I'm trying to put down. (I do remember in school I could listen to lyric songs while working on nonfiction essays and such, and it often made me work faster. But that's because I had no emotional investment in those . . . things.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Again, same-universe soundtrack or nothing.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Very, very, very much. When I'm reading, there is no doctorlit anymore, no more background, only what's happening on the page—only it's not a page, it's a world.
A particularly jerkish student at my high school commented once, as I read an assigned novel at lunch, that I "read slow." (He should have said slowly, of course. Tsk, tsk, and at a prep school, too!) I guess the whole visualization thing makes me slower? Although I can't imagine that most people read by skimming; I prefer to believe he was just being a jerk, as per usual.
Do you dream in color?
*remembers dreaming about branches with green leaves being in the animal food fridge last night*
CONFIRMED
Do you remember your dreams?
*remembers remembering*
CONFIRMED
Do you have recurring dreams?
You know, it hasn't happened in years, and I don't remember the actual events anymore, but I do remember having sequels to previous dreams when I was younger, sometimes years apart. When I was particularly young, I kept having dreams about skeletal zombies being pretty much everywhere around me. Fun times.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Psh. I need mostly break. With all the time I spend at work, I want nothing more than being home alone at my computer during off time. I'm at the point where I don't even want to hang out with family or friends anymore, just because it ruins my alone time. I do feel guilty about it, but I just really, really need to be alone.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
My best subjects overall were generally literature courses and science courses, although there were exceptions both ways. Organic chemistry, physics and biochemistry were terrible, because they're only barely science and wildly uninteresting to me. English classes for me were an excuse to get reading for homework, and then BS some nonsense for the essays/exams for grades. But sometimes, I would get a teacher who ruined it for me by wanting us to be far more analytical of themes and metaphor and such than I tend to be when I read. Reading is only for entertainment, people!
—doctorlit needs to start breakfast now
"Organic chemistry, physics and biochemistry were terrible, because they're only barely science"
Them's fighting words, my friend. Fighting words indeed.
I don't mean the topic itself, just that the classes were only about 35% science theory and 65% grinding through obnoxiously long and repetitive math problems.
—doctorlit has 99 less problems without that class
Is like studying computer programming without using any programming language at all.
...telling a very literal person what to do. You gotta hold his hand every step of the way, tell him exactly what you want him to do, and essentially move his arms and legs around for him.
If you do it right, he'll perform tasks like a champ.
If not, he wanders off into the woods and gets savaged by the wildlife. You then have to pull him out of his hole, drag him home, brush him off, and go over why it's bad to go off-roading without your supervision.
Either that or he refuses to cooperate at all.
I am not a good programmer.
1) Do you read/write while listening to music?
No. I've tried, but I end up getting too into the music and I can't concentrate on plotting.
2) If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Not applicable.
3) When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
God, yes. Call it an active imagination, but I can't help but lose myself in the world of the book. Discworld is a particular place I get lost, as is (more recently) the world of Worm.
4) Do you dream in color?
The dreams I remember are in colour, yes. I don't know if it's always true, though; it's a fairly small sample size.
5) Do you remember your dreams?
Not for the most part. I only really remember the nightmares.
6) Do you have recurring dreams?
Recurring nightmares, alas. Similar themes abound, at least, but the details do change because of the mutability of dreams in general.
7) When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
All. The. Damn. Time. I kind of envy smokers, because they get to bugger off outside whenever a given room gets too oppressive.
8) Which school subjects come easily to you?
In my experience, English and History. As I was told came easily to me by my parents, Maths, Physics, and Chemistry. You may notice there's not a huge amount of overlap. =/
Do you read/write while listening to music? If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Never while I'm reading (see the question about books and hallucination; I often do the same thing while listening to music and my mind picks one to focus on), unless the story mentions a song which I don't know well, in which case I'll look it up and listen to it while or before I read the next passage. While writing, sometimes but not usually; it's a bit distracting. At the very least, the music seeps into what I'm writing. Sometimes one of my characters will actually listen to, sing, or dance to the song I'm listening to (e.g. every story I wrote in middle school). So I tend not to listen to music, unless I badly need inspiration (e.g. the horror story I wrote while listening to Metallica's "Master of Puppets" on repeat. It has the same mood as the song, and some of the same phrasing as the lyrics).
However, I need a certain level of ambient noise in order to focus on writing, so if I'm home alone I'll put on hard rock, heavy metal, or anything loud and energetic with lyrics that are unintelligible or don't create a world I can get distracted by (Rammstein's my current favorite thanks to TOS. And yes, Jay, I know there are other German metal bands in the world, but most of the other ones I like have lyrics I know well).
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Sometimes this happens, yes. Pictures and these pseudo-sound things which don't sound like sounds or the memory of sounds, they're just the sounds thoughts makes in my mind (there are textures that work the same way. Also mimic-emotions that are shadows of what the characters are feeling. Taste and smell are less common). And not just when I'm reading a book, it also happens when I'm writing, when I'm texting or otherwise sending messages, when I'm thinking about something (although in a less orderly way), and even when I'm listening to music or talking on the phone (just pictures, no reading-sounds). Because of this, I like watching movies or other kinds of video/animation much less than other media: I can't see my own images or my thought-sounds, so I sometimes get the unnerving impression that I'm not thinking, like my mind is turned down, even when I'm thinking very hard to follow the plot or the themes.
Do you dream in color?
Yes, and in all five senses, although I remember sight the best.
Do you remember your dreams?
Yes, but not very well or with any consistency. I remember them better if I write them down, mime writing them down in the air, or otherwise repeat key points to myself.
Do you have recurring dreams?
No. I've dreamed that I have recurring dreams, though. I had one dream where I thought I knew what was going to happen because I'd had the dream before and therefore could control it, but when I woke up I realized I'd never had the dream before and had zero control.
Sometimes I have recurring characters in my dreams, though, all boys. (Girls are either me, generic, or one-time. I'm sure I've had dreams where I didn't have a gender, but if something is missing in my dreams, I don't notice it at all and in my memory default to whatever generic is for that thing.) The most notable of these was a series of three dreams when I was about nine years old where I was this superhero guy. He had that standard superhero tight-fitting suit (which never itched, for some reason; I bet that was one of his superpowers) and cape, both red. Over the course of the dreams I learned that he had many enemies, my same little sister, and a girlfriend named Rebecca. The worldbuilding was decent, but the plots were pretty pointless -- much like my writing in fourth grade, come to think of it.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
Only if I'm doing social things for really long periods of time or if it's early in the morning. I definitely need time to myself, but I don't usually need to interrupt socializing to do so. I think of myself as a mild introvert or an ambivert, although personality quizzes often tell me I'm more extroverted (I hate personality quizzes; I'm not sure why I take them).
Which school subjects come easily to you?
Math, Spanish (my foreign language), and Acting. History isn't easy, but it's fun, so I work on it in my spare time, so when I get to class it seems like it's coming pretty easily. English (writing, analysis) is the same as history, but it comes a little easier than history (or else I've worked on it more in the past; I can't tell at this point). Visual art is the opposite: it comes easily to me, but I have almost no interest in it, so my drawing style is almost exactly the same as it was in sixth grade, the last year when Art classes were mandatory. Science used to come easily when it was just about analysis and basically structured the same way as history, but now it's also about understanding all these weird processes and that part only comes sort of okay. It'll probably be even worse next year when I take Biology. Music is in the middle. P.E. is dead last. Socializing (which I was graded on in elementary school and still think of as a subject) used to be dead last, but I've (laboriously) developed some habits that make it more natural and even enjoyable.
My Questions for You All
Do you ever dream you're someone other than yourself?
Do you ever dream you're a gender other than your own?
Can confirm I'm sometimes somebody else in my dreams.
I don't think I've ever been any gender other than female, but I can't say for certain.
Do you ever dream you're someone other than yourself?
I don't think so, but I have gone into third-person view once or twice.
Do you ever dream you're a gender other than your own?
Gender doesn't tend to be a focus in my dreams; there's too much else going on usually.
I usually don't notice / remember what I look like in my dreams - it's not something that sticks with me frequently. However, I can't remember having a dream in which I'm not some reflection or version of myself - I am me, awake or asleep. That self is sometimes very different from reality (I had one fairly recently where I was a robot girl), but in-context, it's always me.
As far as gender goes, though - that's a much harder question to answer. I was assigned male at birth, lived that way for a reasonable length of time, and while I'm now genderfluid through three-ish genders that don't include masculinity, I'm still early enough in my transition that I can pass as a guy without much work. So, "genders other than my own" is a surprisingly small set of options... Overt masculinity has never really been a perception of self in my dreams, and that's been consistent since well before I started digging in to gender stuff. Aside from that, though, sometimes I'm as I am, sometimes I'm as I wish I was, sometimes I'm in between, and very frequently, the shape of my body just doesn't come up.
And I'm such a personality-less drone, my gender is nearly irrelevant anyway, so it never matters in a dream.
—doctorlit has finished breakfast now
But I am sure that I had many more dreams than I can still remember now.
HG
I did dream I was someone else, just last night!
I even mentioned it in my other reply!
The planets aligned tonight, didn't they?
Genderwise, though?
Always ending up the same tubby blob of X and Y chromosomes* I always was.
*Biological sex and gender are separate, don't kill me, I'm just trying to sound fancy.
Sounds like someone's last words to me. Hopefully not yours (you're alive, right?).
When you've suffocated in the outer reaches of the solar system and smashed your upper body into a million tiny pieces against a French pavement, this sort of thing becomes a bit confusing.
Yes, sometimes. When I do it's usually as one of my agents or characters I'm writing for my original stories.
Also yes! Not very frequently, but I have dreamt I was a guy on a few different occasions.
Yes and yes. Different orientations, too.
~Neshomeh
When I read the Last Dragon Chronicles, I was listening to this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loH6LRtXL7M
(Agh, the feels...)
Do you read/write while listening to music?
-Sometimes. It certainly helped during NaNoWriMo.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
-Not unless I'm playing a specific album.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
-Not really, though if I've heard a book on disc, I'll hear the audiobook's narrator in my head when I go back to the physical copy.
Do you dream in color?
-Yes
Do you remember your dreams?
-Vaguely. I have a dream journal, but I keep forgetting to write in it.
Do you have recurring dreams?
-No
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
-Oh, yeah.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
-As long as I remember to keep on top of all my assignments, history and Japanese classes
Do you read/write while listening to music? - No, I find it sort of distracting. :/
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate? - I know what you're talking about, and it's only happened once or twice to me, when I was younger. It's cool as hell though, and I wish it wold happen more.
Do you dream in color? - I confirmed I did a few nights ago. :)
Do you remember your dreams? - Occasionally. I've actually taken to writing them down, and I just finished typing up one of the nicest (and most oddly coherent) dreams I've ever had.
Do you have recurring dreams? - Sometimes.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break? - Always.
Which school subjects come easily to you? - English, I guess, and sometimes Math. :D
Do you read/write while listening to music? - Yes.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre? - Video-game music, assuming the genre refers to what I'm listening to.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head) - Sometimes, particularly with more engaging stories.
Do you dream in color? - All the time.
Do you remember your dreams? - Not all of them, but some of the more memorable ones... Like the time when I dreamed of hanging out with Pixar canons and my parents got abducted by aliens...
Do you have recurring dreams? - Not that I know of.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break? - Eeyup
Which school subjects come easily to you? - Biology, engineering, programming, and a bit of mathematics.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
When I was a kid, I didn’t understand how my brother could do homework while listening to music. I couldn’t; I always needed a quiet place. Over time, I adapted and am now often able to read and write while my wife listens to music or watches TV in the same room. But I don’t listen; I ignore the noise.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book?
No, I’m always aware of the words, unless I space out and immerge into my own dream while still moving my eyes, until I realize that I don’t know what really happened in the last three paragraphs and have to read them again.
Do you dream in color?
Maybe? I don’t remember such details.
Do you remember your dreams?
Sometimes, but I forget most details within minutes after waking up and only vaguely remember a theme like "I was back in a place where I lived years ago" or just "it was really weird and illogical".
Do you have recurring dreams?
Not recently, but I still remember the themes of some recurring nightmares I had many years ago:
Do you read/write while listening to music?
Not always, but I do it quite often.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
Nope. I prefer music with lyrics I can song and some fandom music, mainly from video games and anime, but if I find anythng I like, I'll listen it.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
Not sure it qualifies, but one I've got a book in hand, I'm pretty much lost for conversation or anything. Although I'm not really 'hallucinating' as you say.
Do you dream in color?
I think I do. I don't remember many dreams though.
Do you remember your dreams?
Do you have recurring dreams?
Cannot be sure, given the fact I remember so few of them.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
I didn't do many of these, but I know being with people 24/24 would feel quite tiring after a moment.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
History. No question.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
-Yes.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
-No, but I tend to avoid vocal music, particularly stuff that has lyrics that I can understand — I find that type of music rather distracting.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
-Nope, never happened to me.
Do you dream in color?
-Possibly? I'm not sure.
Do you remember your dreams?
-Some of them.
Do you have recurring dreams?
-Not that I know.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
-Most definitely yes. I have those "people should get out of my hair or else" moods every once in a while, too.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
-I... don't know? I finished school four years ago and uni is still half a year away (not counting the false start I had with Law). I'm certainly a humanities person, though.
Q: Do you read/write while listening to music?
A: Sometimes; it depends on the mood I'm in and what I'm reading/writing.
Q: If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
A: Nah, my tastes are all over the place. Though I do have a marked preference for fandom music and alt rock.
Q: When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book?
A: All the freaking time. It annoys the heck out of my family because they can be standing next to me shouting my name and I won't even notice they're there until they take the book away.
Q: Do you dream in color?
A: All the time; it surprised me to learn some don't.
Q: Do you remember your dreams?
A: Only the really fun or really scary ones. I can still remember a few nightmares I had when I was seven, along with a dream that I found my way into Hogwarts through the vacuum closet not long after. Most of the other ones I remember involve playing Quidditch, flying a TARDIS, or moving to England.
Q: Do you have recurring dreams?
A: Ehhh... sometimes. On occasion I'll have the same dream or some variation on it for a few nights in a row before my brain moves off of replay.
Q: When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
A: Oh yeah. Even if it's just me and one other friend, I need a break after a few hours because I need time to myself and start to feel trapped otherwise. I... don't do too well at sleepovers and big parties for a reason. :/
Q: Which school subjects come easily to you?
A: Um... *racks brains* Not really any of them, to be honest. I'm absolutely terrible at anything involving numbers and although certain branches of science interest me, when it comes to the details I start to get bored and tune out. History is just a bunch of date memorization which I find extremely boring, and my English teachers don't like me because my writing is much more informal than they want for essays and I have an extremely hard time reining it in.
Though now that I think about it, I did really well in my art history class my first semester, and I enjoyed poking holes in theories presented by my philosophy professor. (He still hasn't gotten back to me on a question I asked. Grr.) So... yay subjects that no future employer cares about save for museum curators?
Do you read/write while listening to music?
-I do. I listen to instrumental music while I write. It helps block out the rest of the world.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
-Not particularly. I move from anime music to video game music (from Chrono Trigger to Skyrim) to piano/cello music (often with a rock base). Depends on what I feel like at the time.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
-Nope. I do hear the characters voices in my head, but it isn't at all like what you describe.
Do you dream in color?
-Maybe?
Do you remember your dreams?
-Not often.
Do you have recurring dreams?
-I believe so. I sometimes wake up with a sense of Deja Vu, though I don't remember what I dreamed.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
-Yes. I need t let my brain shut down for a little while.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
-All of them expect foreign languages (including computer programming languages). I had a terrible time trying to learn French back in the day. I am particularly strong in math, science. and history.
-Phobos
Have a plug.
Do you read/write while listening to music?
*I've always been able to do both while listening to music, and prefer it.
If you do, do you read/write with a specific genre?
*No. Anything works for me.
When you read a book, do you pretty much fully hallucinate (can't think of a better word) and forget that you're reading a book? (Like, you don't realize you're reading words. You just have the pictures in your head)
*Unless I'm thinking about this, I just basically watch a movie in my head when I'm reading a book. Never knew other people don't do that.
Do you dream in color?
*Yes. Didn't know other people supposedly don't.
Do you remember your dreams?
*Sometimes. Not often, only if I wake up right after it.
Do you have recurring dreams?
*I've had a couple, but they're not really that big. I do have recurring themes in my dreams, though.
When doing social things, do you sometimes need a break?
*Um, I always feel like this. I especially dread sleepovers, because it kinda scares me having to be social for so long. I feel like I'm the only one like this (all my friends are constantly wanting to have sleepovers) and so I feel kinda bad about it.
Which school subjects come easily to you?
*History. Writing and reading also come easily to me, but I can never remember the specifics of 'verbs, adverbs, nouns' etc.