I also recently realized that I have no visual memory. Like Barbara, I can't see an apple (or a picket fence in a meditation) but I know what an apple or a picket fence looks like and that's what I rely on.
Really! How did you come to realize it? It's so interesting that we can go through life working around our mental difficulties with no idea that there is an explanation for them. I knew I had trouble recognizing people and could never remember anyone's name, but I didn't realize it was due to facial blindness until a talk Chuck Claus gave where he talked about his prosopagnosia as the defining issue in his whole life. It was the answer to a question I'd managed never to ask!
I'm thrilled by your comment, Meg! You've given words to my own experience working on these posts with Barbara. I'm often amazed at what I'm coming to realize. For me, it's not so much learning new information as discovering a new way of understanding my own "interior life," as you put it. What is more intrinsic to who each of us is than our own brain? And yet it often seems like a foreign country. Thank you so, so much!
I'm so glad you think so, Marilyn! We start with a question and are always surprised by what finally emerges, but we never know how others will respond to what we've learned. That you share our fascination comes as a great gift, for which we are truly grateful – I mean it! So, thank you!
I also recently realized that I have no visual memory. Like Barbara, I can't see an apple (or a picket fence in a meditation) but I know what an apple or a picket fence looks like and that's what I rely on.
Really! How did you come to realize it? It's so interesting that we can go through life working around our mental difficulties with no idea that there is an explanation for them. I knew I had trouble recognizing people and could never remember anyone's name, but I didn't realize it was due to facial blindness until a talk Chuck Claus gave where he talked about his prosopagnosia as the defining issue in his whole life. It was the answer to a question I'd managed never to ask!
Wow! Had never thought of this very different approach to one's interior life. Thank you for lifting the veil and sharing.
I'm thrilled by your comment, Meg! You've given words to my own experience working on these posts with Barbara. I'm often amazed at what I'm coming to realize. For me, it's not so much learning new information as discovering a new way of understanding my own "interior life," as you put it. What is more intrinsic to who each of us is than our own brain? And yet it often seems like a foreign country. Thank you so, so much!
Your exchange of ideas continues to be fascinating. So nice of you to share it -
I'm so glad you think so, Marilyn! We start with a question and are always surprised by what finally emerges, but we never know how others will respond to what we've learned. That you share our fascination comes as a great gift, for which we are truly grateful – I mean it! So, thank you!