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[wispfox]

why is it that it's much easier to compare things which are side-by-side than higher or lower on a page? separate pages are easier side-by-side than vertically, too. why? Or is it just me? there's two reasons I print things. this, and the ability to highlight/take notes.

this brought to you by my irritation that chronic lack of sleep, mild illness, mild depression, and being overwhelmed are not, for me, easily distinguishable states (and being interrlated and thus any tending to worsten the others _does not help_!). I think I am all three except depressed right now.

but there are cold meds which I will take at bedtime, not midnight.

and then maybe tomorrow having things I need to do won't seem like a horrible weight on my very existence!

Comments

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, but I think you're right! I think things that are side by side seem "more the same" -- like somehow having, say, the doors in two pictures of two houses vertically level makes them more comparable. Maybe because I'm not very visual-spatial, and so I can evaluate certain things (like "is the person in picture 1 taller or shorter than the one in picture 2?") pretty much only if their feet are vertically level and I can see whose head is higher? :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*amused by example*

Not very good with spatial awareness, either, but I was actually thinking of diagrams/words/charts type comparisons.