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As a fun mental fitness exercise when I'm bored while waiting on something, I like to take objects I see in real life and turn them into a 3D exploded diagram in my head which shows all the parts that the object is made of. I can then rotate that 3D diagram in my head to see all around each part. I have never met anyone else who seems to be able to do that.

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This is a key exercise for your brain to develop and maintain the mind's eye and non verbal, symbolic and spatially oriented thought. Like internal monologue, it's something that many people seem to lack Imagine a key, spin the key, imagine a lock, insert the key into the lock and turn the key. See the lock unlock, remove the key, etc A great way to start practicing this is to get a good night's sleep, like 8 hours or more. In the last hour of rest your visually imaginative capabilities are at their peak. As you slowly begin to awake, think of specfic things and mind will show them to you. Then manipulate those things like in the example above. Eventually you can do this even during waking hours and your abstract cognitive abilities will increase. Mastering this technique is how you can start lucid dreams

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But can you feel the densities of the materials of those parts?

That's easy. When you start breaking them apart down to their genetic and molecular structure, you'll be on my level.

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That's easy. When you start breaking them apart down to their genetic and molecular structure, you'll be on my level.

I've done that before. I took people apart into their elemental constituents and placed those atoms into either piles of their relative size or containers to trap the gaseous elements. It was a lot less fun because the piles aren't all that interesting, except for the phosphorous and alkali metals that spontaneously combusted from exposure to the air or water vapor.

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I took an organic chemistry class, and killed it because I was able to do this.

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That's pretty straightforward. They must be stupid.

This is a good mental exercise, I am trying it right now...very interesting.

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When I was learning how to draw I would research the subject until I had a blueprint of the archetype in my mind. So if I wanted to draw a wolf in a certain posture and couldn't find that angle or breed, I would look at dozens of pictures and watch videos for a long time until I could imagine the creature with in any range of motion it was capable of as a motion picture in my head I could pause at any time.

Funny that I practiced that kind of stuff so much and I still struggle to put on paper exactly what I see in my head but I've become pleased with my results anyway, and I get closer to drawing what I intended.

I run nature scenes in my head with imagined wildlife to help me fall asleep. Lots of flying imagery too looking down on everything.

I find it hard to believe there are humans not capable of imagining even a simple apple in their head. What scrubs

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Fluoridated and mongrelized. That is the future (((they))) want for us.

Well, I'm going to make the smaller world look like a masterpiece so the abled body men can go forth and vanquish our foes. I've gotten pretty good at feeding an army if I do say so myself. Fiance asks for a sammich and BAM there it is

I know where you're coming from.

I leant to draw when I was a kid mostly from copying art from graphic novels and comics. 2000ad Judge Dredd that kind of thing.

I had a big poster on my wall of an airbrush showing all the insides of the mechanisms ect and always wanted to try it.

As I got older and started to earn money I brought my first airbrush when I was about 16.

Now I paint huge images on sheets of ply but I am about to start painting motorcycles as well because my friends convinced me I was good enough to paint their bikes.

Never stop drawing, painting or what ever medium you enjoy, it's good for the soul.

I don't paint for a job just a hobby but sometimes I make money from it too.

That's very cool! I used to do a lot of fabrication work, graduated highschool with a welding cert. We would take our finished fab jobs and hang them in the painting booth on a couple different jobs. We mixed our own paints and put them in a paint gun to coat it. One job had a professional come in and give us a class on how to mix automotive paint and apply an even coat. Very fun stuff!

In my highschool-tradeschool-college situation there were people in automotive class that got special classes on how to apply detailed art to the cars and damn they got good at the end there.

Someone once said that airbrush painting was cheating, but I say if you ain't cheating you aint trying. Besides, they're just jealous. No one can make air brush look good unless they're a skilled artist.

Huzzah! Side money with art is great! Do your buddy's bike proud!

Do your buddy's bike proud! Thanks mate I will.

special classes on how to apply detailed art to the cars That sounds like an amazing school, is that in the United States?

I do free hand airbrushing so I don't use stencils just free hand. Anyone who thinks it's cheating clearly has no idea how to draw with a pen or brush.

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The second image should be a Tyrone.

"You have 10 seconds to comply."

"SHEEEEIT."

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"You have 10 seconds to imagine an apple before I add you into a list of apple-related casualties." "5 seconds." "Three." "One."

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No clue what the back of that thing looks like so my mind filled in the rear with a beefy Chevy pickup back. Thanks for the imaginary ride down beaver creek.

It's the security bot from Robocop.

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Do you want me to rotate it horizontally or vertically?

If you want a challenge imaging the apple is stationary on a table and your perspective needs to move around it.