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

Tue Feb 19 16:24:30 UTC 2013

One day, while visiting my low vision specialist, I wanted to impress the 
nurse with my ability to see colors. I told her, "IN fact, I know this room 
is painted a really nice shade of minty green."   She said, "NO, in fact 
this room is a very ugly purple/brown." That was my last time to demonstrate 
my skills in determining a room color.  OH, yes, I also had done it at the 
hair dressers, too. I came out of the bathroom and told him what a nice 
shade of lavender he had painted the bathroom. There was a bit of a 
silence - he said, "No, we never painted the bathroom. It is still all 
white"  lol

>From now on, I will just keep my wonderful impressions to myself, since they 
are most likely not accurage.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visualization & Color - WAS: OT dreams

> Linda;
> I have optic atrophy from a blood clot, when I was a baby.  This causes me 
> to have tunnel vision.  It is a mistory for me that a sighted person can 
> see a whole word at a time!!  It is hard for me to read anything if it is 
> to big or if it is to small.  How can anyone see a whole word?  I am 
> blessed to be able to see most colors and to tell that there is some buty 
> in my work, even though I can not see it as well as a sighted person can. 
> At least I have a consept of most colors.  Many a time, I have to ask 
> someone if x an y will go together.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: River Woman [mailto:riverwoman at zoominternet.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:18 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visualization & Color - WAS: OT dreams
>
> we are all a little crazy, I think.
> Yes, my brain puts on little shows for me, too.
> I might be sitting at a table with other people, and I will ahve to close 
> my eyes for awhile because I am not seeing the people at all, but I am 
> watching animations of scenes and people - that has nothing to do with 
> where I am or who I am with. I see like this a lot - my brain shows me 
> little video type of glimpses of moments of animated characters all the 
> time. Who could ever understand that if I spoke it around someone who does 
> not have sight loss?
> Yes, they would think for sure, I am brain damaged, too. well, sort of. 
> lol My brain sees just fine, it is the connection from my eyes to the 
> brain that has passed away - the optic nerve.
>
> I cannot imagine how you played the piano like that - you have to have a 
> photographic mind.  I have trouble remembering the line I am on in my 
> knitting pattern.
>
> OK, back to my sock now. Have a fun day!
> Lynda
>
> Lynda Lambert
> River Road Studio, Since 1976
> Village of Wurtemburg, PA 16117
>
> Visit my Web Site at:  http://lyndalambert.com Visit my Blog at: 
> http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
>
> www.lyndalambert.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:31 AM
> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> 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
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> 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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