I also wondered if I could do the flame and the void. I think an actual flame is beyond me, but if I concentrate really hard, I can just about manage an orange blob.
I have wondered how women with aphantasia would learn to channel. When asked to picture a flower in their mind and visualise it opening up, this isn’t something they can literally do.
Yeah, I think I just assumed "mind's eye" was a metaphor, and for years, didn't realise that people could close their eyes and still "see" things, or "summon" images of people or places, in a similar way to how I can with sounds or music.
Apparently, some people don't have an inner monologue, so...
Moiraine is short and pale in the books, as are all Cairhienin. That I think has been dropped, which is actually a change I like. The "the people in this country somehow all ended up with specific ethnic features" never made sense - either based on the 3500 years, and several countries since the...
That's interesting. I've speculated that the reason I don't like descriptions (Tolkien spending 20 pages describing a tree and then five more describing mountain, Jordan spending a page describing a dress) is that they don't really do anything for me - it doesn't "paint a picture in my mind"...
The only reason I am watching is because my wife is making me. I was initially excited, but after seeing what they have done, and the excuses for why they think it necessary, I have no interest at all in the show.