Thus the conclusion drawn from the grouped data about relations between analgesia and imagery in this region of experiential space turns out to apply only to some people and to misrepresent what others experience. This leads us to the straight-road or linear relationship concept, even though that concept actually represents no one's experience. If I clearly understood the way your mind works in its ordinary d-SoC, and if you understood the same about me, we would both be amazed. Yet because we speak a common language, which stresses external rather than internal events, we are seldom aware of these differences. For example, most of us have imagery in our ordinary d-SoC that is unstable and not very vivid, so that trying to visualize something really steadily and intensely is impossible.
Some people report that in d-ASCs their imagery is much more intense and controllable, steady.
Tesla is also reported to have tested wear on his machines through imagery. On those occasions when we do recognize great differences in the mental functioning of others, we are tempted to label the differences weird or abnormal of pathological. Such blanket labels are not useful. This tendency to project implicitly the workings of one's own mind pattern as a standard for the working of all minds can have interesting scientific results. Again consider Figure 9-1.