Autism and Light Switches

Do you ever like turning the light switches on and off? Did it make you feel powerful?
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My name is Christian Swenson. I'm a 29-year old autistic man with interests in philosophy, art history, and all sorts of things. I made this channel to talk about the experience of autism from an autistic perspective. Autistic consciousness isn't normal consciousness. The autistic world isn't the normal world. I want to explore that world with you.

[@stefan1024]

German film maker and author Alexander Kluge once wrote about flickering. In an analogue film projector, the light beam gets covered up by the light shutter after every frame. So each moment in which an image is projected onto the screen is followed by a moment of darkness. When we see a movie in cinema, half of the time we watch the images on the screen in front of us while in the other half, we watch the images inside our mind, and the movie results from the interplay of those two projection surfaces. I can't particulary explain how this relates to this video, but I think it's beautiful and find it to be fitting somehow, so I wanted to share it.
Of course modern digital projection works differently, there's no more flickering, it's basically a beamer now, I think.

[@sarahcunniffe4678]

Enlightening!
The light/sound relationship you speak of accounts for many of my communication preferences. I am photosensitive so don't do flickering lights yet I have not problem with a strobes set to the same rhythm as music or photography flash lights as long as I can hear the click of the shot button.

[@arasharfa]

I have been playing with my lights very much since I got smart lighting that you can dim and change colors on and set timers and create themes for. it's been a great mood enhancer and regulator, my whole apartment is connected to my phone, so i just sit in my sofa and change the lights and feel the difference, probably way more than most 30-year olds would want to admit. I feel like I inhabit the entire apartment that way, otherwise I will sometimes feel uncomfortable by knowing the other rooms are unpopulated and cold and dead, something that can fill me with discomfort. Ironically my computer theme changed from light to dark as i typed this comment. LOL

[@chantalrochon3566]

Thank you for this video,it has helped me understand the light switching action .

[@justadoogie3573]

Idk why they do this but it’s kind of annoying. This is why I am single and use condoms.