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oflgtfol · 6 years ago

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one thing with body swaps that are like almost never touched upon is just. how weird it’d be to be in another person’s body. like i’d think even down to like, just the length of one’s limbs would be unfamiliar. you’re so used to YOUR body, you’ve never been in another body before, and we’re all different sizes and shapes? you’re used to your arms being x distance. youre used to the shape of your hands, the texture, the look and feel of them. your height, the length of your legs, the shape of your jaw and mouth, your eyes, the shape of your shoulders, the way clothes fit on you. even down to nose shape like, you dont ever notice your nose in your field of view (unless you intend to) because you’re just to used to it - but your nose has a very specific size and shape that varies with every person. you dont notice your own nose but what about when your nose isnt yours anymore?

these are all little things that you never notice! you’ve inhabited this body for so long that they’re YOURS and theres no reason to think about it. this is the only experience you have, the only body you’ve ever had. if you’re suddenly in another body then like. just IMAGINE how foreign it must feel to be in another body. we all know the whole “look in a mirror, its not you staring back” but i’d imagine it’d go even beyond the most obvious visual changes

#the closest ive ever seen anyone ever come to describig this is just.#ok i think it was a gravity falls bodyswap between stan and ford lol #so like. they talked abt like. Joint Pain and scars and leftover injuries lol #and it got me thinking like. the way your joints ache will be different between people . think about all the other subtle ways people’s #bodies feel different too #and nobody ever thinks of this bc like. why would you? lol #cause it would be incredibly subtle probably. and again its not something you ever think about since like. youre so used to your body that #like. you wouldnt think over people would. feel different #but nobody knows better so we all just think that the way we experience Inhabiting A Body is probably universal so like #why even question it? lol #but its down to like. spatial awareness. you expect your body to be x y z dimensions bc youve lived that way for years and years #so when theres differences in that no matter how minute its like. wait what #the most obvious way to experience this would probably be a tall person swapping with a short person #but even an INCH difference would probably be enough to throw you off kilter #bc the difference is subtle but its still. Not Right. and bc you probably wont be able to pinpoint it its even freakier #like ‘somethings not right but i cant tell what’#but even down to like. reaching for something and finding your arms too short when you thought you could reach it #delete soon

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