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Subject: Re: Visualizing
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"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:6u4mdjt3d32biaavd02a2cfebsgtd5kapa@4ax.com...
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> I was driving and listening to the local mostly-annoying NPR radio
> station, but they had an interesting interview with a book author. It
> was about his novel or some poetry or something.
>
> What was interesting was his recalling a conversation that he'd had
> with his wife. She was takling about a plant or something and asked
> him to visualize it. He was astounded that she, or anyone, could close
> their eyes and *see* something they were thinking about.
>
> I was shocked to learn that there are people who can't form a mental
> visual image.
>
> Close your eyes and consider a nice white ceramic dinner plate with a
> beautiful deep red apple sitting in the center. Can you see it? From
> the side and from the top? Do you see the stem? The colors? Imagine it
> slowly rotating? See the fruit fly?

Yes I can see the fruit fly around the room if I want.
Not sure where the fly went.
The human imagination is not bounded by reality.

>
> If the world is divided between people who can visualise and people
> who can't, that could explain a great deal.
>