Congrats! Nice work. I’m a fellow “Phoenix |> Elixir” fan and built something similar here [0]. I’m still ironing the kinks out of mine, but I’ve moved all of my personal sites over to it and it’s been running for almost a year now.
Totally agree with this, too! The books are great and I’ve read all four a few times over, but the audiobooks are something else. The guy who reads them manages to strike a near perfect balance between “reading” and “acting” that is just such a pleasure to listen to. I think we must have listened to it beginning to end about another three or four times as a family during long car trips!
That's the thing. It is acting. All the characters are played by actors. And they just simply nail their parts. You're right that it's an equal and almost perfect mix of acting while not changing the tone or impacting the content via the same acting process.
It legitimately is the best audio book I've ever heard. I think it's because their voices and tone and cadence matches what I hear in my head when reading the book.
I was about 45 before I realised that when people said “in my mind’s eye” it was substantially more than a metaphor.
And it wasn’t until about a year later that I realised that I also didn’t have what ordinary people refer to as an inner monologue.
Realising that I had both aphantasia and anendophasia was quite a shock, but has never felt to me like I was missing anything.
For images I literally have nothing “pictorial” or “graphical” at all, but concepts and relationships are “vivid”. And for the inner monologue, there’s no autonomic voice at all, but if I concentrate in the same way that someone might “consciously breathe” I can kinda sorta trigger something.
Interestingly, in periods where I have meditated for >20min per day for consecutive weeks, I can trigger what I refer to as “flyover mode” which is like a literal landscape flyover that feels like a 4K screensaver. But this is _rare_ and requires a huge amount of effort.
I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse, but I generally have extremely vivid dreams. I also have a very active inner-monologue and can do the whole “picture a red apple on a green lawn with 3 yellow dots on it, pick it up and rotate it and track the dots” kind of thing. As it happens I’m a visual learner and a voracious reader.
I’ve never thought about if any of this was connected before. I should do some research.
I have dreams, but they're almost always non-visual, at least in the traditional sense, or when compared to other people I know who recount their dreams to me, and I very rarely "remember" (if that's the right word) them in any detail. I sometimes (rarely) will have visual dreams, but that almost always happens after I've had a good night's sleep, woken up, and then fallen back to sleep again. I think it might have something to do with how deeply I sleep when I am asleep. A train could drive past my bed and I wouldn't wake up.
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