[stylist] Quote to ponder - taken to another level -spelling is first, recognition of a pattern

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Donna & others 
3 things 

#1 On the bottom of my email to you all --- I shared the young woman's
testimony and a part of a sentence did get attached that wasn't supposed to
be there --- Sorry, good catch and question!

#2 Visualization by the congenitally blind? Yes, sure in their own unique
way. Dreaming at night is one good example: We who see or have seen will
have night dreams that are visual in nature; our unconscious essentially
reflects what we experience when conscious. I once had 20-20, up to age 15.
So I at age 64 will still see in my dreams. And so the blind will have
dreams based upon what they experience during the day --- if they see some,
then that will influence their dreams --- if the person has never had any
visual input, then their dreams are made up of - you guessed it, the sensory
input that they receive during their waking hours. (Here is an interesting
fact, one that for some ignorant reason that I had originally not thought of
--- was that even the congenitally blind can and will fly in their dreams!
Not sure why I was surprised by this news when on another list we had this
discussion.)

#3 Echolocation is the more accepted term for "facial vision," or
blind-radar. And yeah, every human being uses it to some degree. It is just
that we the blind, out of necessity and, I guess opportunity, will learn to
really perfect it. I use it all the time, everyday! I remember the first
time that after going blind that I recognized it was possible. (I was
walking around our backyard, this was like within a few weeks or so after
the car accident --- I felt-heard a cloths-line pole right off my shoulder.
Boy, in my independent travel, me and my cane, I am super slowed down if I
lose the metal tip off the end of my cane. I mean, hey --- the cane is only
five foot four in length, and at arm's length I can only reach out seven or
so feet (with the angle factored in) --- where with my metal tip, the sound
cues I send out all around me, I can pick up on parked cars 20-30 feet
before I get to them, or a building that is across the street, or I can
follow a wall of a building and keep a steady distance from it and then can
pick up on a recess doorway. And much, much more.

Another cute thought is - in regards to picking up on a smile, isn't it one
of the more pleasant sounds, hearing the smile in a voice!? Recently, a
friend was playing a trick on me, I was to meet her in a classroom, and when
I entered she remained quiet, trying to trick me into thinking the room was
empty. Well, her undoing was that she smiled and I heard the super slight
smack/tick of her lips parting!)

(Fun Talk!!!)