TVs in the Brain

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My 8 year old son (diagnosed with Asperger's) has explained that he has many TVs in his brain and that he can't always control which TVs (and how many TVs) are turned on. I thought this was an interesting analogy.

No matter what he is doing, he will have multiple TVs on at a time--each covering some combination of his current obsessions and sometimes covering his current activity. For example, when I asked him about his teacher's comment that he was daydreaming during math class, he said that he had one TV on for the teacher, one TV on for math and two were turned on for Pokemon.

Can anyone else relate?

That's pretty much how I describe my thinking and fantasizing. My sister used to tease me about it after I mentioned it to her when I was 12. While were in the transition of moving we stayed at a trailer resort and we both shared the same room. While I was in bed she kept asking me "What channel are you watching?"

Yep thats a good way to describe it. I also have ADHD which alone adds just a few more TV's in there

i relate - thousands of images. like a movie screen in my brain. concentrating on the world around me is often subordinate to my tendency and wish to focus on my internal imagery.

I have a TV in my brain as well. It's just one TV and there are only two channels. The first channel is essentially a massive crossover of all the anime I enjoy. Although it features characters from half a dozen series, it's actually quite structured and organized (just the way I like it). This channel is what I visualize when I'm listening to my normal selection of dance music and wandering around.

The other channel is used to conjure up peaceful/religious imagery to help take my mind off of other things while I'm trying to focus on my spirituality. I use this channel when I'm at church, praying or listening to Christian music.

I had one of those religious tv's (but I pulled an elvis and shot it )
Elvis is great.
my brain is always thinking-even when I am asleep

Ah yes, many many tv's are in my head. Since 80% of the time I'm fantasizing or playing back clips of my favorite movies/tv shows/video games/showtunes in my head.

When my then-8 y.o. was being evaluated, the psychologist wasn't seeing any evidence of an obsession. She then figured out that my son played video games in his head, most of the time. Often, when he wouldn't respond to someone who was speaking to him, it was because he was playing his video game, and he had to get to a safe place to pause the game before he could talk to the person! It just took the right questions to find this out.

My brain is constantly playing a TV inside my head. Often I'm thinking of TV show clips in my head. The most common clips are from my favourite shows, especially SpongeBob SquarePants!

My brain has TVs, an iPod, an atlas...

That would sum up any class I had in school that I considered boring.

Try reading Oliver Sacks latest book "Musicophilia". It's not about autism, but from time to time it answers some of the questions we ASPic have about ourselves.

Basically, our brains are physically wired differently, and these problems we have are quite real and not something we make up. In other words, we really do have an overactive visualization part of our brains.

I mean it literally. There's a chapter in the book where he's discussing absolute pitch, and he explains briefly how the brain detects sounds, and how it selects sounds to hear. He explains that there is a physical wiring of the brain where people can pick out the sound of a single instrument in an orchestra that's slightly out of pitch, but other people (us) can't distinguish between conversation and background noise in a restaurant.

I have just one "TV" i refer to as my "brain cinema". I see my thoughts and daydreams on it.

I see the real things and the tranparend pics of my cinema overlayed 24/7.
I like it that way and never wanted a change.

I always thought it was the normal way to live, until someone told me not to have a brain cinema. Poor one....