I didn't know my best friend was two people. We never let her rewind unless we want to re-watch the last 10 minutes of whatever we're watching. And mind you, she only needs to go back like 30 seconds. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Not only does this happen with TV/movies I get it with everything. Whether or not I'm trying to pay attention.
The worst is being unable to process a word or two when someone is talking. I've tried all sorts of strategies, almost always the person talking restarts from the beginning and I cannot process the exact same bit. I've asked a speech pathologist I was seeing about it. She had not heard of it and said she couldn't find anything the next week either.
That's just addiction. But when listening to music and focusing on something else (that usually happens to me when repairing something), it's really annoying.
We don't want to miss anything. Completeness is important to us. But our minds are also moving too fast, constantly navigating 'the thought tree' branch to branch like a wild monkey. We let our attention slide from what's in front of us to what's playing inside our heads. I hope we all embrace letting ourselves slip into our own thoughts. Thank goodness movies can be paused and rewinded, I only wish I could've done the same in my engineering classes.
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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I didn't know my best friend was two people. We never let her rewind unless we want to re-watch the last 10 minutes of whatever we're watching. And mind you, she only needs to go back like 30 seconds. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
cactus_head@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
This is me with audio books while on PC
Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I found downloading the ebook and following along kinda locks in my attention. Speeding up to 1.3-1.5x helps too
jon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Not only does this happen with TV/movies I get it with everything. Whether or not I'm trying to pay attention.
The worst is being unable to process a word or two when someone is talking. I've tried all sorts of strategies, almost always the person talking restarts from the beginning and I cannot process the exact same bit. I've asked a speech pathologist I was seeing about it. She had not heard of it and said she couldn't find anything the next week either.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
That's just addiction. But when listening to music and focusing on something else (that usually happens to me when repairing something), it's really annoying.
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Watch it on your phone?
fakir@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
We don't want to miss anything. Completeness is important to us. But our minds are also moving too fast, constantly navigating 'the thought tree' branch to branch like a wild monkey. We let our attention slide from what's in front of us to what's playing inside our heads. I hope we all embrace letting ourselves slip into our own thoughts. Thank goodness movies can be paused and rewinded, I only wish I could've done the same in my engineering classes.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Your TV program comes on tape?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y