[Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?

Tue Nov 16 00:46:02 UTC 2010

LOL -- I could list a bunch of those as well.  I used to tell people I could 
see just enough to make people think I knew where I was going.  In fact, 
sometimes I myself even believed I knew where I was going while going in the 
wrong direction.
It's true that your mind fills in the missing details when you look at 
something, sometimes making it into something that is completely wrong. 
When I was home, for example, I used to come into the living room and "see" 
the white couch -- but then in a friend's living room, where there was also 
a white couch, I couldn't tell where the heck I was going, until she told me 
it was there.
I once listened to an Oprah show in which they were showing how unreliable 
eye-witnesses could be.  They staged a mugging outside the studio and during 
the show Oprah asked people to pick the guilty person out of a lineup.  Of 
the people they asked to identify the mugger, no one got the right person. 
The lineup was also chosen so that the people were all very different 
physically, so they should have been easy to pick out.
This makes me wonder about how much of what even sighted people see is real 
and how much they miss.
Happy krafting.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "linda" <the_ninn at tx.rr.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?

Lynda,

I have a story about a sunset, too.  One morning my daughter, Tamara, was
driving me to work.  My office was on the DFW Airport property on the outer
drive.  It was that time of year when it is dark in the morning when people
are going to work.  Anyway,  We were driving along and I looked out the
window on my daughters side of the car and exclaimed, "What a beautiful
sunrise!"  Tamara turned and looked out the window and looked back at me
with a confused look.  "What sunrise?" she asked.  So, I looked again, only
to realize that what I was looking at was one of those humungeous.  AA
hangers that they pull the huge airline planes into for maintenance.  The
hanger doors were open and what I thought was a sunrise, were only the
orangish/yellow lights inside the hanger.  We laughed all the way to the
office - and are still laughing about it today.

This is the problem when you are partially sighted!  You forget that you
really can't see and do and say some of the strangest things.  They say I
have an "Invisible" disability.  I appear to be sighted, until I do or say
something strange.  I have talked to cardboard stand-ups of people in
stores, dipped my beef in my coffee, sprayed my hair with deodorant, and on
and on!   And, we don't even want to start on the kitchen!

I am so blessed to have found people who truly understand my struggles - you
all comfort me and help me laugh at myself!
Ninn
The_ninn at tx.rr.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laurie Porter
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 5:11 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?

I agree with Susan. I've been totally blind now for only 10 years and I find

that my husband can describe a sunrise to me and I can see it in my mind if
I were looking at it with eyes, although, it might not look anyything like
what he is seeing in real life because color is a very personal thing.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?

> Mary, you are so right. No one cares! Color is so personal.
> I do not see colors much at all any longer either. Most things are
> brownish or flat gray. But occasionally I can see brilliant blues. I do
> not see any nuances in colors at all.  Recently, I was talking with
> another potter and we were looking at her new work. She described the
> colors she was seeing her her glaze - pinks, yellows, etc.  I saw only a
> plain brown pot. I had no idea it had all those colors in it.
>
> One thing I wonder about is this:  will my memory of color fade with time?

> I have only been blind for 3 years, and I see things with my third eye
> these days. I seldom think of myself as blind, but I plung on and most
> people have no idea I cannot see unless they are around me long enough to
> figure it out, or if they see me walk in with my cane. So, I wonder, will
> my visual memory fade, or will it stay as it is today? Right now, I have a

> photographic memory of things and colors. Does this change?
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mary wurtzel" <marywurtzel at att.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Mid-week question - color?
>
>
>> Hello,
>> This discussion is truly facinating to me.  I have had a very small
>> amount of siout in one eye.  It used to be a bit more when I was younger.

>> Growing up, my favorite color was red because I could see it so well.  My

>> engagement ring has a diamond inthe center but has rubies all around, and

>> Fred's wedding band has some rubies on it.  Now red looks like a brownish

>> greyish blob to me.  Now, if I am in bright sunshine  I can see yellow
>> flowers or a yellow car.
>> I am laughing at what Henrietta said, because when I would ask our kids
>> if something matched that I was going to wear, sometimes they would get
>> into a fight over it.  I'm getting pretty convinced that noone cares much

>> about what goes with what these days!!!!
>> Mary
>>
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