Are You Dense?

[Da Blob]

dense |dens|
adjective
closely compacted in substance : dense volcanic rock | swirling, dense smoke.
• having the constituent parts crowded closely together : an estuary dense with marine life.
• figurative - hard to understand because of complexity of ideas.
• informal (of a person) stupid.
See note at stupid .

Well, I am dense, but oddly enough, it seems I can be defined dense on both the figurative and informal scales, depending on the POV of Others. I also can get so intensely focused on something, that I am unaware of my surroundings and appear to be focused on nothing at all...(?)

I really believe that some people who know me 'face to face', actually have no clue as to who or what I am... (?)

 

[Aramea]

I am consistently shocked at how little of my surroundings I am aware of at times. I am easily startled because I don't hear or see people enter my space. I often can't tell you what is in a room I just left. I probably do come across spacey to people.

 

[crippli]

I have been told that the more they get to know me, the less they get to know me. I can only conclude that once they get past the fake constructed shell, they enter the otherness area. The uncharted territories that makes them feel lost.

It makes me sad to see the distance becoming greater the closer we get. There is no easy work around that. Finding the equilibrium where the distances are balanced appears to be the most constructive.

 

[Mondorius]

I would qualify myself as street dense for its informal meaning and figuratively dense otherwise.

I don't understand a lot of things people refer to as common sense, but I have little issues with most sciences and similar things. I imagine some people would fry their brains if they were subjected to whats going on in my mind for a given amount of time. Lucky us, they don't know about this place...

 

[Fallenman]

I'm often referred to by my close friend as the 'smartest dumb person' he knows, and people have given me similar descriptions. I'm somewhat of an airhead with simple things, clumsy and generally unobservant (with regards to inanimate objects and myself. I'm TOO observant with people, according to most of my peers lol. I suppose things about people long before most people ever even consider it, and when I share it with people they think i'm crazy, but often times I turn out to be correct, or they end up gaining the suspicion too [in unconfirmed cases]), as Mondorius put it lacking in common sense. But I'm quite on my toes intellectually.

 

[Mondorius]

I think you put it better than I did. I'm pretty much the same.

 

[notrightnow]

Well, lets just say I frequently quote Prince George from Black Adder. I often respond to confusion I cause or am prone to by saying "I may be as thick as a whale omelette but _____________"

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

I had a spanish teacher in highschool that called me a space cadet all the time on front of the class. Errr I'm sure I came accross as dense to those around me in that context.

I would say that what I focus my mental energy is on the future or things beyond beyond my immediate environment. Additionally, there are times where I'm so preoccupied with a programming or what have you that dishes pile up etc. soo I am not someone highly influenced by my surroundings.

 

[Particle]

Yet another thread where I see myself going by many different names.

Dense? Absolutely. People don't seem to understand when I am relating a story to them and omit details they consider crucial. This happens frequently when I talk to some third party and then relate the conversation to someone. They will ask for details I didn't inquire of the third party and think me to be quite odd for failing to have done so.

Suppose somebody tells me they've acquired a new source of employment. Ten years ago, I'd have logged that information and moved on. Five years ago, I'd have been developed enough to understand that that's an invitation to talk about that subject and I should thus ask some more questions like "How do you like it?" Now, I'd be inclined to ask where they're working, how they like it, how it compares to their previous job, if the pay is acceptable, etc. I'm still not great at it and I generally don't have a lot of interest in the socialization, but I'm better at detecting and then trying to replicate what is normally expected in such a situation.

Even so, I still miss so-called "obvious" details often times.

 

[snafupants]

Let me put it this way. I took a break from class, and went downstairs to get some coffee. I am talking to two different people about different things and thinking about something I have to present later, and I am sort of reading the pap at the same time. So this is going on when I come to this evil little coffee dispenser. Four activities are condensed to one as I consider the intricacies and devilry of this infernal contraption. I pull. I push. I twist. Nothing. Finally I see someone else do it with ease and feel extremely stupid. That about sums up my life.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Well...

I'm most often looked at as empty as fuck, to put it bluntly.
My daydreamyness translates as dumbness to most others. To some others I seem only semi-intelligent.
There are few people who know how deep my thoughts really are.
I am dense though, I just don't look like it apparently... Not implying I'm some sort of SUPER INTELLIGENT DEEP PERSON, I'm probably below average on this forum, but still... Eh, you probably know what I mean.

 

[Bird]

Yes.

 

[Solitaire U.]

I'd guess that, comparatively speaking, I tend to come off as pretty loosely wrapped.

 

[Yet]

Fallenman

I'm somewhat of an airhead with simple things, clumsy and generally unobservant (with regards to inanimate objects and myself

LOL I've turned up at work with my trousers back to front once ... (it was a baggy pair with elastics and buttons that were def not supposed to be on the back .. I didn't notice, someone had to tell me).
At another occasion it was longsleeve T-shirt inside out.
I have days I cut or burn myself cooking, I bump into furniture...
When I have a clumsy day I just refer to it as a misses Bean day to my surroundings. (I do not look anything like him b.t.w. ... just to avoid an imprint. I am skinny posture redhead and have no funny walks hahahah)

 

[notrightnow]

Fallenman
LOL I've turned up at work with my trousers back to front once ... (it was a baggy pair with elastics and buttons that were def not supposed to be on the back .. I didn't notice, someone had to tell me).
At another occasion it was longsleeve T-shirt inside out.
I have days I cut or burn myself cooking, I bump into furniture...
When I have a clumsy day I just refer to it as a misses Bean day to my surroundings. (I do not look anything like him b.t.w. ... just to avoid an imprint. I am skinny posture redhead and have no funny walks hahahah)

I don't wear skirts. It's not that I don't like them or that they don't look good on me but my perpetually bruised shins are less than attractive.

 

[Yet]

same here

 

[Bird]

I would qualify myself as street dense for its informal meaning and figuratively dense otherwise.

I don't understand a lot of things people refer to as common sense, but I have little issues with most sciences and similar things. I imagine some people would fry their brains if they were subjected to whats going on in my mind for a given amount of time. Lucky us, they don't know about this place...

You are definitely dense.

I'm always trying to figure out if
you really think that burnt orange
and grey go well together!! :P

(I don't mean this insultingly, just
in case you take offense.)

Now that I'm actually thinking about
it though and trying to think what
other colours would go well, most of
them seem very harsh in comparison
and would hurt my eyes except for
teal or light pastels but I am not sure
they are colour options here.


Perhaps you just like the colour and
do not necessarily care about its
aesthetic appeal to others.

 

[Solitaire U.]

This shade is pretty cool, but it would look even better on a true black background rather than this asphalt gray one.

 

[preilemus]

What I find intriguing is the sort of link between
"• figurative - hard to understand because of complexity of ideas."
&
"• informal (of a person) stupid."

Calling someone "dense" as an insult is not merely to say "stupid", but has certain implications, in my opinion, which are identical to the implications of being figuratively "dense":

That of the individual being at odds with their surroundings due to internal preoccuptation (an attitude which others have evinced).

The difference between the two definitions merely depends on the manifestation of these odds. On the informal side, being dense is to be inept at apprehension of externality. Figuratively, it would be difficulty in the educement of internality. One pronounces difficulty in giving, while the other difficulty in receiving, yet both stemming from the same state.

And yes, I can relate.

 

[Zionoxis]

I would easily fit into that category. Ironically, instead of confusing my peers, I have just put up a simple wall or facade for them to view. They assume that is who I am. Some of my best friends learned long ago to not attempt to understand me. Ironically, most of my friends are extroverted. It interesting from time to time to list half the things running through your mind to someone. I did that a few times to a friend of mine and he was focusing less on content and more on how fast I was talking... *shakes head*

We just learn to deal with it. I cannot search for objects....they can be right in front of me and I won't see them. But I CAN figure out some of the most complex networking situations.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

You are definitely dense.

I'm always trying to figure out if
you really think that burnt orange
and grey go well together!! :P

(I don't mean this insultingly, just
in case you take offense.)

Now that I'm actually thinking about
it though and trying to think what
other colours would go well, most of
them seem very harsh in comparison
and would hurt my eyes except for
teal or light pastels but I am not sure
they are colour options here.


Perhaps you just like the colour and
do not necessarily care about its
aesthetic appeal to others.

YES. Have I finally found someone else obsessed with color-combinations? Are you? I am. I can't STAND wearing clothes that don't fit, I have to make everything look well together, I have it with rooms, with pictures, groups of people, clothes, drawings... Everything. Perhaps it is because I am an aspiring artist, I don't know. I've felt this way since a child though, an old friend of mine(female) recently told me she was really scared of me back in kindergarten because I would get really, really mad if someone used 'the wrong color' in a drawing we were making together.

Sometimes people make fun of me or see it as vain now, heh. Some people recently told me: 'Haha, your shoes match your shirt...'
I don't really know what's funny about it, maybe because my shoes were pastel green, ah well. I'm drifting off.

 

[terraxceles]

If I say yes, it would imply that I think of myself as complex and hard to understand and hold myself in high regard.
If I say no, it would imply that I think I'm not stupid...and hold myself in high regard.

This is a trick question. I'm onto you, Da Blob!

 

[crippli]

This is a trick question. I'm onto you, Da Blob!

Agreed. It's a question of perspective.

 

[^_\\]

I walked into a lampost the other day.

Also I weigh a lot more than you'd guess from my size. Maybe because I Drank loads of milk as a munchkin.

 

[Synthesis]

Frequently, I almost trample others in various hallways because I wasn't aware of them. Complex, however, not so much. I have a perspective, just like everyone else (not to state mine is like everyone else's).

 

[Stoic Beverage]

Oftentimes I see a thread and think of something I perceive to be devilishly witty, only to scroll down and see that EyeSeeCold has said it, albeit in a much clearer and more articulate manner than I would have.
I expected that to be the case here, but it would seem ESC hasn't paid this thread a visit.
Given that...

I float. Does that answer your question?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Oftentimes I see a thread and think of something I perceive to be devilishly witty, only to scroll down and see that EyeSeeCold has said it, albeit in a much clearer and more articulate manner than I would have.
I expected that to be the case here, but it would seem ESC hasn't paid this thread a visit.
Given that...

I float. Does that answer your question?

If it makes you feel any worse, I thought of that, but then I remembered I said it in another thread already. Didn't want to be redundant.

 

[xbox]

I am dense to people who aren't receptive. A lot of people I know aren't receptive.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

If it makes you feel any worse, I thought of that, but then I remembered I said it in another thread already. Didn't want to be redundant.

...
Right here is objective proof that there is no god.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

...
Right here is objective proof that there is no god.

No, here's the objective proof:

"When everyone around me's busy drowning I float."

At any rate, great minds think alike(as do lesser ones).

 

[Moocow]

I've never been called dense, but I've been called plenty of things that basically imply that I'm a big, dumb, and clumsy. Things like Frankenstein, mongo (short for mongoloid I think), monolith, sasquatch, etc.
The problem with being this tall is that it seems to exaggerate my clumsiness, or at least the consequences of it.
Eventually I just stopped moving and sat down at a computer forever.