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

Sun Feb 17 22:45:48 UTC 2013

Oh Annet, You sound like me. Especially the sense of a color dominate in a room. Or what about the difference in Spring sunshine and fall sunshine. I am never sure if it is my imagination or really those colors. But I often ask about a room and have the colors very close to right. We are so lucky to have a glimpse of the visual world now and then.

As for putting colors together, especially in beading, I get so frustrated. I haven't found much of an answer for that. Especially since I have such an varied bunch of beads.
Henrietta
On Feb 17, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Annette Carr wrote:

> 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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> 
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> 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/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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