What is this problem?

[Snowflake]

I've noticed that sometimes I type words that I don't mean to and has nothing to do with what I'm writing about. I've also typed things opposite to what I'd meant to say. I'm not talking about normal typos here. Should I be worried?

 

[Muezzin]

So it's like a typing version of a Freudian slip?

That actually sounds rather cool.

 

[~Zaria~]

I've noticed that sometimes I type words that I don't mean to and has nothing to do with what I'm writing about. I've also typed things opposite to what I'd meant to say. I'm not talking about normal typos here. Should I be worried?

Hmmm.......perhaps you have a split personality - one for real-time, and another that enjoys virtual reality more?
Maybe 'Dying Rose' has taken on a character of her own!...... lol.


Just kidding ukthi : )

 

[جوري]

Happens.. just the speed of thoughts compared to your speed of typing.. You've no idea how many times I have to read a sentence when distracted I read completely different words than are written basically the brain takes the first letter and renders the word of its choosing so you can imagine my dilemma when I read perfidious as pernicious etc.. happens more often than I like to admit.. :hmm:

 

[CosmicPathos]

yea happened to me during a test, I misread a word as something else and got the MCQ wrong. Hate it but that is what happens when you are stressed. HUGE impacts on cognition.

 

[crimsontide06]

Are you talking about auto-correct??? That's when Microsoft Word or other document programs assumes you typed the wrong word, so it corrects it for you...

 

[White Rose]

Happens to me sometimes. Reading the first word or first few words and assuming the rest. And sometimes saying words that don't belong in a sentence.;D Like Cosmic said, it did affect me in tests a few times as well.
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[Snowflake]

So it's like a typing version of a Freudian slip?

That actually sounds rather cool.

Yes like that. It's far from cool though. Takes ages to edit stuff.

Hmmm.......perhaps you have a split personality - one for real-time, and another that enjoys virtual reality more?
Maybe 'Dying Rose' has taken on a character of her own!...... lol.

Just kidding ukthi : )

Sister Zaria – If I do have a split personality, neither was offended lol - which makes it difficult to tell if there is a split

Happens.. just the speed of thoughts compared to your speed of typing.. You've no idea how many times I have to read a sentence when distracted I read completely different words than are written basically the brain takes the first letter and renders the word of its choosing so you can imagine my dilemma when I read perfidious as pernicious etc.. happens more often than I like to admit.. :hmm:

Aw.. strangely, before now, I never thought that reading words wrong was as serious as writing/saying them. I read words wrong all the time and get lots of oh: moments because of it - reading perfectly innocent words as swear words! A suppressed need to swear I wonder? *sigh* Would make sense lol

Cosmic Path - yea happened to me during a test, I misread a word as something else and got the MCQ wrong. Hate it but that is what happens when you are stressed. HUGE impacts on cognition.

I'm trying to understand if reading words wrong and saying/writing them are a part of the same problem i.e. does it involve the same areas of the brain?

CrimsonTide -Are you talking about auto-correct??? That's when Microsoft Word or other document programs assumes you typed the wrong word, so it corrects it for you...

No akhi, but I know what you're saying. That is so annoying!

Arjmand -Happens to me sometimes. Reading the first word or first few words and assuming the rest. And sometimes saying words that don't belong in a sentence.;D Like Cosmic said, it did affect me in tests a few times as well.

Yup, like that. I was beginning to think I'm losing my marbles but from what everyone said, it seems to be quite common. The Freudian comparison makes sense. But it still bothers me a teeny weeny bit.

 

[MustafaMc]

you can imagine my dilemma when I read perfidious as pernicious etc

...per-what?

It happens to me all of the time. I will write 'that' instead of 'than' or 'of' instead of 'on'. It is like my fingers are on autoplot - I mean autopilot.

 

[Snowflake]

^ on second thoughts, just because something is common it doesn't mean it's normal. Seriously speaking, I think toxins from our diet and the environment have something to do with it.

 

[جوري]

^ on second thoughts, just because something is common it doesn't mean it's normal. Seriously speaking, I think toxins from our diet and the environment have something to do with it.

It is normal sis.. so many different variations of the norm and it can be pathological but don't want to get into that, but if it is a minor nuisance rather than life altering and everyone is suffering it to some degree then it is all variations of the norm. It is do with the way we're wired, the speed of transmission of information to nerve fibers to the brain and back. Some nerve fibers are faster than other and we've different types, Motor, sensory, both.. it also depends on where they travel, if they decussate and they do.. so don't make more of it than it is..
Some people have varying degrees of dyslexia.. some have actual visual problems.. some of us are fixated on the computer screen all day that the cilliary Muscles are constantly in the same position and that can cause double vision, tiredness, red dry eyes which in and of themselves cause problems in how the brain interprets what it sees..

so don't worry.. you're not alone and yeah many of us are affected by it, imagine having to sit for a 16 hour test over two days just reading large clinical vignettes.. you're bound to be stressed and to make mistakes due to said stress.. it is only human ..

 

[Snowflake]

Thanks sis. I wish I could say that one of those reasons applied to me, but they don't. I juggle internet time with housework, reading, resting and cooking. So I'm never anywhere long enough for my brain to suffer. If not dementia, I was wondering if it could be a sort of mental retardation that comes on during childhood years? I remember by the age of five, I knew lots of nursery rhymes word perfect, by heart, and jumped two classes in one year when I went to school in Pakistan - despite Urdu being a new (written) language for me I breezed it. After that though I went downhill. Back in the UK, I tried extremely hard in school but I just couldn't understand anything above basic English. My English teacher thought I might have hearing difficulties and so arranged a hearing test for me. My hearing was fine, so that was it. In those days, lots of people with learning difficulties just got written off as being thick.

I do struggle to understand what I'm reading, and find it difficult to say exactly what I want. I can't put my thoughts into words the way I want all the time. I have to rethink how to say things in a way I can out in writing. At school I was in the bottom group for English. I struggle with long complicated sentences. I've read books all my life and my vocab has improved as a result. But there's a limit. A barrier which prevents me from understanding complex texts.

I see posts here written in the standard of English I can only dream about reading and writing. I'm scared to death to participate in those threads/forums because I wouldn't be able to understand what's being said or respond on the same level. I love to know how things work/happen and attempt to read articles on science, technology, cosmology, and biology etc. But I only understand a tiny fraction of what I read. It makes me feel so sad

 

[Scimitar]

Dnnuo, Can you raed tihs fnie?

The Tinhg is, our bianrs can atucllay porsecs jbmuled up wrdos...

Carzy, but ture.

;D

 

[White Rose]

Dnnuo, Can you raed tihs fnie?

The Tinhg is, our bianrs can atucllay porsecs jbmuled up wrdos...

Carzy, but ture.

Just goes to show how smart our brain is even if we do not realize it. It can also understand and interpret meanings and things that we don't understand when we look at them. MashAllah.

I know it is irrelevant but I just wanted to bring it up. Sometimes when songs contain hidden messages, our brains can understand them and then we start acting according to it without realizing. Scimi has a very good example of it on his channel. The twinkle star song.

 

[Snowflake]

Dnnuo, Can you raed tihs fnie?

The Tinhg is, our bianrs can atucllay porsecs jbmuled up wrdos...

Carzy, but ture.

;D

lol yeh I can read that - probably because it's not actually 'saying' anything complicated. Allahu alam.

 

[Scimitar]

@Dying Rose: You'd be surprised, In can write you a thesis on reverse osmosis like that, and you will still be able to read it fine.

@arjmand: Ah, that video gives me the creeps... even now. I can't watch the video I made for youtube, now that's funny... and slightly scary *nervous lol*

Scimi

 

[White Rose]

@arjmand: Ah, that video gives me the creeps... even now. I can't watch the video I made for youtube, now that's funny... and slightly scary *nervous lol*

Good to know I am not the only one who get the creeps ;D
It is just something about a song being played backwards.:heated:

 

[Scimitar]

Have you seen the Music Industry Exposed series by youtuber and fellow truther, Farhank501?

Songs played normally carry some dark messages too nowadays - and i'm not talking nursery rhymes either - this is modern pop culture... here is part one:


DISCLAIMER: Music and foul language in the following series:

Scimi

 

[Ramadan90]

Well, this sounds very interesting. This have never happened to me before.

 

[Snowflake]

@Dying Rose: You'd be surprised, In can write you a thesis on reverse osmosis like that, and you will still be able to read it fine.
Scimi

I can read words. I just can't understand what's being said when the language gets complicated. Insha Allah, I'll post an example if I find one soon.

Well, this sounds very interesting. This have never happened to me before.

Masha Allah wal hamdulillah.