[stylist] To ponder- taken to another level- echolocation

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Robert,

Yes, I know when Penny and Declan smile or frown, or when Penny is
making silly faces or copping an attitude with expressions, smile.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
another world."
C. S. Lewis

Message: 14
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:07:03 -0600
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Quote to ponder - taken to another level
	-spelling	is	first, recognition of a pattern
Message-ID: <009c01ce071a$2cddf190$8699d4b0$@cox.net>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

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!!!)