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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is me with audio books while on PC

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I found downloading the ebook and following along kinda locks in my attention. Speeding up to 1.3-1.5x helps too

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Watch it on your phone?

[–] jon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] fakir@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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 points 2 months ago

Your TV program comes on tape?