Latif Nasser or Lulu Miller (Radiolab hosts) - likely Latif
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We've been talking to our producer Sindhu, who cannot make images in her mind.
But he said it could be dangerous?
So, even though he told you red apple?
Or like common co-occurrence.
And that it's kind of a control.
Like if you can control this is an amazing superpower.
But if it controls you.
That's this is terrifying.
It's like she's like the real life, you know, Professor Xavier teaching the X-Men how to control their powers.
Do you still want imagery?
Well, what if you could just get like a little bit?
Oh, so it's like, it's not the fear of having the pictures.
It's like appreciating... Not having them.
But there's also a kind of like...
And like the diversity means we're more like marooned in our own heads a little bit.
Like where there's a novel that you'll love and I'll like look at it and I'll be like, I just can't even.
You can't read the description of a rhododendron bush.
Or or even a memory like it's like we were both in the same place at the same time, experienced the same thing.
And then a year later, we're talking about it and it's like we remember it in a totally different way.
Like, which is there's there is something sad about that.
I'm picturing a red delicious apple.
It's like a shiny red apple.
You got that from an apple?
Mine, mine is actually, mine's not that vivid, but mine's like, uh, it's kind of a cartoon of an apple, I think.
The more I think about it, I'm like, am I seeing it?
Oh, so it's like it's in the world of the book, leaves the page of what the author is saying, and just is like, I'm just going to go explore this fictional world.
And when you were talking to this woman, are you feeling jealousy?
Are you feeling like they're getting something you aren't?
I had this flash to my great-grandmother.
Like, she has bright red hair because she would, like, henna dye her hair.
And I can picture her sitting on a chair.
She's sort of sitting there and, like, kind of laughing.