[Nfb-krafters-korner] Visualization & Color - WAS: OT dreams

Sun Feb 17 16:45:38 UTC 2013

Annette
Interesting you say you imagine you think you know what the color of
something is even if you have not gotten that information beforehand. I do
this with dog toys all the time. As for krafts, mixing colors in rug hooking
works for me, it's far less fine work than knitting. My rug color
combinations are probably little different than what I used to paint. I
remember all that, and others love my colors too. 
	If you want some consolation, my neighbor recently ripped out a good
part of a hat she was making in which she combined pink with black for a
hat. She wasn't sure which color should be the dominant one. As it turned
out, I believe as she decreased the size of the fabric for the top of the
hat, she had gotten the colors wrong. Now I can't remember if she reverted
back to pink highlights on a black hat or the other way around. 
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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Annette Carr
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visualization & Color - WAS: OT dreams

Hi Linda,

I totally get what you are talking about with being able to resolve problems
in your dreams.  I too have figured out problems with patterns and math
problems in my sleep.  When I was writing computer code, I could find the
errors in my code while I slept.    Despite being visually impaired all of
my life I am a visual learner.  When I could see enough to read piano music
with a magnifier, I would memorize note by note for the right hand, and then
note by note for the left hand.  Once I had that line memorized and could
play the 2 hands together, I'd move on to the next line.  If at any point in
the future I got stuck in the middle of a piece, I could recall that measure
or line in my head and re-learn that part.  

Now that I no longer have color perception and a very limited spotted field
of vision, my brain thinks it sees things.  I often have to keep my eyes
closed to make my brain concentrate on what my other senses are taking in.  

I have definite ideas, thoughts and feelings about color and how and when to
use color.  After being in a room I get a feeling of what color it should
be.  This drives my family crazy.  Sometimes this drives me crazy too.  For
example, I have a coat that is black and I have to constantly remind myself
of that.  When I touch it my brain imagines that it is burgundy with a lot
of red in it.  Kind of like a stage curtain.  

As much as I love color, I get frustrated with incorporating multiple colors
into my crafts.  I try to put colors together based on other people's
descriptions.  I hate when I have a finished project and someone asks me why
did I put those colors together, or says, that is an interesting mix of
colors.  I've limited myself to solid colored projects that incorporate
texture.  I'm giving a serious look at the various yarns that have very long
lengths of color that make stripes without the hassle of having to weave in
the ends.  Another reason why I run away from changing colors in a project.

Annette

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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of River Woman
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 8:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

OMG, Joyce, you are a BIG DREAMER - who are you kidding?  I mean, let's just
expand the idea of what a dream is - you are a wide awake, walking,  living
dreamer.

I dream constantly - all I have to do is close my eyes, and in moments I am
off to places and situations. My dreams are always full of DRAMA...never the
kind of dreams that you want to close your eyes and go back to sleep and try
to resurrect.

But, have any of you every been wrestling with a craft or art problem you
could not solve? And, then, in a dream, you see yourself doing it and you
wake up knowing exactly how to do something you never did before? I sure
have.  I have figured out knitting problems in m sleep, and I even learned
math concepts that I had a hard time with, in my dream. (I learned how to do
"slope" in algebra that way, when my conscious mind could not "get it."
I dream for ideas - sometimes I wake up and write down things I am seeing in
my dreams - poems come that way to me at times.

I think we have such a creative mind, all of us, that dreams are a
continuation of our creative self.

Lynda
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Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 7:05 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

> When I first lost my sight 15 years ago I did not dream.  It took a  
> bit more then 2 years before I started to dream once again.
>
> I felt, looking back,  that it must have been due to   concentrating so
> much on minute to minute, day to day.  I couldn't think  about the 
> future as I didn't have any idea what future I would have or how it  
> would be.
>
> Well dreams came and started with familiar thoughts and surroundings 
> to begin with.
>
> Then it seemed to be stuck when I worked in the hospital and doctor's 
> office before I went in for my surgery and woke up blind.
>
> Dreams and ideas are back from time to time.
>
> Henrietta, I will tell you this between the steroid medication, 
> inhalers and occasional Advil, that leaves me wide open for some weird 
> and funny dreams.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
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