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[parsa]

After reading a few posts of someone I start, unknowingly, forming a picture of them in my mind. Then I sometimes wonder how closely the picture would match them:) ?

[Simple Guy]

Parsa,

Are you talking about a visual picture? If so, it's less likely to be accurate. Whatever the picture, accuracy is proportionate to the degree of discernment (dependent, in part, upon getting personal projections and mindreading out of the way). It's natural for people to "fill in the blanks" by creating "pictures" of someone.

[Neurotic1]

Hi Parsa

I tend to agree with simple guy. Have you ever heard someone on the telephone or radio and built an image of them in your mind only to find that they look nothing like you imagined when you see/meet them?
Maybe it is possible to picture someone accurately using techniques such as telepathy, astral projection, or whatever. That might be interesting...

[parsa]

Well I am talking about a visual image but I am not claiming that I form an accurate picture in mind, actaully I don't even try or want to do it, it just happens.

If you know someone and see them everyday of course you have a photographic picture of them in mind but other than that there is some other visual picture that has to do with their character. This is what I am talking about
Like if I read a couple of books of the same author, I'll end up with a picture of him or her in mind.

Now, I'm not saying that with reading a couple of posts I know how people look like or know their character. But I end up with an image, that's all :)

[Neurotic1]

Well I am talking about a visual image but I am not claiming that I form an accurate picture in mind, actaully I don't even try or want to do it, it just happens.

If you know someone and see them everyday of course you have a photographic picture of them in mind but other than that there is some other visual picture that has to do with their character. This is what I am talking about
Like if I read a couple of books of the same author, I'll end up with a picture of him or her in mind.

Now, I'm not saying that with reading a couple of posts I know how people look like or know their character. But I end up with an image, that's all :)
Yes, I think this might be quite a common experience. I'm sure I do it a bit. I think a lot of my imaginings of character are based on cold-reading and psychology but I am still often very wrong. When it comes to the visual image I expected when hearing someone, I am almost always wrong! It's a fascinating area of the psyche isn't it.

[skip]

There is one fellow who is very smart, and has done considerable work towards the advancement of NLP, whom I always imagine sitting in an old wooden office chair, one that has arms, and tilts back. And the seat of the chair is cracked, such that everytime he sits up straight, it pinches his butt. This is reflected in how he writes. His facial expression is also priceless.

There is another, a woman, whose postings are always distracted, and bounce incessantly from point to point. She often slips on her premise, and sprawls to some conclusion, occasionally it has some resemblence to the topic. I percieve her as something of a cross between Phyllis Diller, and Nurse Ratchet (One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest).

I myself, always appear to you as your favorite mentor, who is both wise and rather dashing, with a ready smile, and a mischevious twinkle in my eye.

skip

[parsa]

Thanks skip, that's what I was talking about.

So skip, is that what you like us to see you as ;)

[skip]

You mean now?

You see me as, who you see me.

Now, sometimes I can color it a bit, as I might.

[Simple Guy]

Skip,

Is this fellow a regular participant at this forum?

[WeDoNotKnowWhoWeWereNot]

There is another, a woman, whose postings are always distracted, and bounce incessantly from point to point. She often slips on her premise, and sprawls to some conclusion, occasionally it has some resemblence to the topic. I percieve her as something of a cross between Phyllis Diller, and Nurse Ratchet (One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest).

I think we may have anne idea to whom you refer.......



I myself, always appear to you as your favorite mentor, who is both wise and rather dashing, with a ready smile, and a mischevious twinkle in my eye.

Well, naturally.......


http://forum.hypnosis.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[skip]

No he isnt on this list at all.

[skip]

See this is the beauty of what parsa was asking about.

We all make images of the other people, here and elsewhere. After Merlin's revelation about her marvelous variable breasts, I have had to make hers a video rather than a portrait. Baby Baby! :)

AND interestingly enough, if by describing my image, it comes close to matching someone elses image of someone, then they think they know, who I am describing.

A prime example of the slippage in language that NLP is so concerned about using properly.

You might note that in my reply to Simple Guy, it is evident that I did not limit myself to people on this forum.

[parsa]

Skip,

Maybe if you take a look at Merlin's updated homepage your video might become more colorful.:)

[skip]

And of course we all know more colorful is more ...

skip

[parsa]

:D . A lot of times when I read Terry's posts I remember Jack Cafferty(Cafferty file on CNN):) . I don't know why?

[skip]

Oh parsa,

Or Peter Faulk in "The Princess Bride"

The scruffy, gruff, on the outside, brimming with love on the inside, grandfather,with just the right touch, to help make someone better?

[Terry (existing)]

:) Oh dear, dare I say I am just the oposite of what imagination invokes in friends I have never met? Scruffy?Never, I don't even own a pair of jeans, and even my relax type clothing is neat. I once built an addition to a house of mine in Northern Ontario, wearing a collar and tie. Never gave it a thought since that was daily wear for me, but my wife will never let me forget it (G).....I own about fifty ties at any one time.......

As for "heart of gold," I suppose I am kind in some sense, but I do demand the best from those who invade my space. I credit each person as having the knowledge and skill to communicate well, ask intelligent questions, and never ever waste the time of those who offer help........I drag out information by insisting on the presenting skills of the poster, and if that seems gruff, so be it. I do care about those who need help, but insist frequently that they must be willing to help themselves also. That is neither kind nor cruel, just common sense. I hold my friends in great respect, and value each for what they are. I try not to put a face to someone I have never met, but rather see them in light of what I believe their character to be. On the other hand, I have always imagined Skip to be tall for some reason, Jack to be close to my age, but younger although he admits to being involved in hypnosis for about the same time as I......As for the rest of my friends, I see a little revealed each time I read a post from them, and as I mentioned to another poster, though I have never met you, I would be happy to place myself in your hands for therapy at any time; It is a pleasure to communicate with so may dedicated and decent human beings. But then, friends are what you want them to be aren't they (EG)