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

[Anita Ogletree]

Well I will have to say that I have had a dream or two where I 
flew and I went blind around 2 years old from what was believed 
to have been Encephalitis.  This disease destroyed the optic 
ner"e.  I learned a few yeins ajo that the optic nerve is designf 
to take images and transmit them to the cornea I think?
I may be off on this but I understand why it is that I can detect 
objects in a room--the furniture, wh's on a wabbl, lights, but I 
cannot figure out how big the objects are or tell what they are 
with that same vision.  Sometimes the objects appear to be closer 
at times when they are farther away and vice versa.  And it can 
also be very distracting when attempting to travel independently.  
Of coursethereare times when I miss objects and bump into them.  
(Yikes! That happens with people as well." (smiles)

Anita

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net
>To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:07:03 -0600
>Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder - taken to another level 
-spelling	isfirst, recognition of a pattern

>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!!!)






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