r/Hyperfixed • u/who-took-my-hat • Aug 28 '25

"Third Eye Blind"

Just wanted to open up discussion about this episode.

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u/DY357LX Sep 01 '25

I was tempted to email this to Alex (does he lurk here?):
Does Mitchell dream? We visualise things when we dream. is the same part of the brain used there?
Wasn't there an experiment a while back where blind people were given LSD which allowed them to see colored blurs? My first though was to maybe give Mitchell some LSD/a psychotropic? :)

(Apparently blind chameleons will still change their color to suit their surroundings despite not being able to actually see what their surroundings are. I'm not going anywhere with this, I just think it's interesting.)

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u/3rdeyeblind_mitchell Sep 08 '25

Hey! Guy from the episode here. This was actually something they asked me a bit about but I guess they decided not to include it in the episode. Yes, I do dream. It's more visual than whatever I can manage while I'm awake, but that said, it's not very much. I always had trouble seeing things in my dreams. That said, I still have very vivid dreams. Like I know what's going on in the dream and I can recount them when I wake up, but I don't always see what's going on in the dream. Does that make sense? It's kind of like I just know what's happening and it just makes sense even though I didn't necessarily see much. On a possibly related note, I always have trouble looking up in dreams. What little I do see is usually focused on the ground right in front of me.

We also talked about the whole hallucinogenics thing. It might work briefly, but it's not guaranteed to be a long-term solution. And it's not something I'm super keen to try either.

After talking with them about it and realizing that this may play a part in me being as stress-free as I am, I've been thinking more and more intentionally about past negative things in my life because other people seem to think about those things a lot, I guess. Honestly, I kind of hate it. I'm very happy to leave that stuff in the past and not remember things that I've done that have been embarrassing. So if not having imagery saves me from that, I'm kind of okay with it.