[stylist] Thinking of Words

Mon Jan 17 23:10:40 UTC 2011

Hi Bridgit,
I too have that sort of trippy visual memory, even with the rainbows and 
other unpredictable shooting lights and geometric designs. I was legally 
blind from birth from RP, but was forced to use print throughout school. 
Nowadays, at age 61, though I can barely find a light source, I have 
intense visual memories, which I think are far more detailed than my 
"vision" ever permitted. I think you're right about gleaning info from 
other senses and transfering it into visualization.
Donna

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On 1/17/2011 5:52 PM, Bridgit Pollpeter wrote:
> Anita,
>
> As a sighted person, I could read print words and immediately construct
> a visual image in my mind.  Just like how sighted people don't know how
> we construct things in our mind, the same applies for the flip side.  I
> don't know how to explain it except to say you just do it.
>
> I have always been an extremely visual person, and I have been reading
> since I was 6.  I have never been at a loss to create visual images in
> my head even when I was sighted.
>
> The really weird thing is I now have visual memories even though I do
> not see.  For example, I can bring up visual memories of my wedding with
> great detail even though I could not visually see.  My husband and I
> took a picture in front of a fire place with a mantle (we were married
> in a large Victorian home( and I not only (in my memory) see us, but I
> see the detail of our clothes, the detail of the mantle and the detail
> of the decorations.  Most the time, too, my memories are fairly
> accurate.
>
> I am not suggesting I have magic powers, I think I have just learned to
> transpose other sensory information, along with an active imagination,
> to create detailed images in my head, but it is weird nonetheless.
>
> I do have some light perception, and at times, I can see shadows, but I
> always have TV fuzz, as I call it.  I constantly "see" swirling dots,
> like on a TV when the channel is not coming in, and pops of colors along
> with spinning rainbows at times.  Very trippy!  *smile*
>
> Bridgit
>
> Message: 24
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:52:31 -0500
> From: "Anita Adkins"<aadkins7 at verizon.net>
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Thinking of words
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> Hello,
>
> Yes. I always have.  The picture is one single unit for me rather than a
>
> letter-by-letter vision. It has color, and it is always in contracted
> Braille. Colors are associated with this picture because I have a
> different
> color for each letter. Perhaps, this is why I can also quickly jump
> through
> days or months when hunting for a future date in my mind because I can
> use
> color and counting at the same time on the journey. Interestingly, I
> have
> been able to identify colors on Uno cards before, but I would guess I am
>
> color blind since I couldn't tell you what color something is if you
> showed
> it to me. I imagine the uno card deal was because blue and green are
> smooth
> colors. With glasses, green was different-looking than blue. Red is dark
> and
> yellow is light, and both are grainy colors to me. So when I say I have
> a
> different color for each letter, I cannot identify these colors;
> however,
> they are varying shades of light and dark, smooth and grainy. And, if
> the
> book I am reading is interesting enough, I do not picture the words on
> the
> page at all, but the vision of what scene the words are portraying, for
> ex.,
> a man walking in a dark alley or a bunch of children on a playground. I
> wonder how sighted people do that since they would both have to see the
> word
> and envision the scene. When I envision something, I am not sure, but I
> think my eyes are closed or squinting, at least. In fact, typing this
> email
> is an automatic process for me as I am not picturing the words I type,
> but
> the scenes that result from the words being typed, in most instances.
> Have a great day. Anita
>
>
>
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