[blindza] Re: Next silly question about virtual vision, eye symptoms etc.
- From: <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:56:42 +0200
Well, all my sort of real imaginings are in the back of my mind - as in
don't really 'see' them as such, but sort of imagine them rather vaguely,
whereas these permanently changing grey pixelated shapes, etc. are right
there, but not clear/too useful as such.
Stay well
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:58:04 +0200, "Magda Felgate"
<magdafelgate@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> HI JACOB,
> I OFTEN SEE ROES OF WRITTEN WRITING AS WELL AS PRINTED LETTERS. IT JUST
> ROLES ON AND ON.MOSTLY, NOW, THOUGH I CAN NOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT SAYS.
JUST
> AS IF I AM TRYING TO READ IT BUT, THE PRINT IS JUST TOO, SMALL FOR ME TO
> MAKE OUT. FUNNY, A LOT OF TIMES IT IS THE TYPE OF PRINT THAT THEY USE IN
> THE BIBLE. .. BUT, .., I NEED TO READ THE MESSAGE BUT JUST CAN NOT MAKE
IT
> OUT.
> I HAVE GOT A VERY GOOD IMAGINATION AS WELL. I EXPERIENCE IT IN FULL
COLOR
> ALL THOU, WITH THE BIT OF SIGHT THAT I HAVE LEFT, I CAN NOT SEE COLOR,
ANY
> MORE.
> SOME TIMES I SIT AND WANT TO SEE SOME THING WITH MY BRAIN BUT THEN THE
> THING DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE IT TO ME AND AT OTHER TIMES I KEEP ON SEEING
> FACES OF PEOPLE THAT, HAS LONG GONE
> I WISH WITH ALL MY HEART THAT I COULD GO FOR THE STEMCELL IMPLANTS, THAT
> THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, WHILE I'VE GOT SOME, A DROP, OF VISION LEFT. I
AM
> TERRIFIED TO THINK THAT IT IS SLOWLY DISAPPEARING. IT IS LIKE A LONG,
VERY
> LONG NIGHTMARE THAT I JUST CAN NOT GET OUT OF.
> LOL! ...LOL!
> MAGDA FELGATE.
> WOEFIES, WAFFIES! ME
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jacob Kruger
> To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:43 PM
> Subject: [blindza] Re: Next silly question about virtual vision, eye
> symptoms etc.
>
>
> I am 100% blind, but still have a lot of imagination as well as a
> slightly diffferent approach to certain things...<smile>.
>
> I also did use to have a certain percentage of photographic vision
which
> I suppose might be related to how I still visualise pictures of things
> even if have never seen them as such - I literally have a picture in my
> brain of the basic braille alphabet in black raised dots on a piece of
> white paper, with thin blue lines that I sometimes sort of compare to
> what it feels like...LOL!
>
> And that's where I hadn't even really, consciously known that braille
was
> actually dots in any sort of arrangement close to what it really is -
> thought it was more of a tactile version of morse code or something.
>
> Anyway, who knows - not me - and that's why am asking this on the list
to
> see if anyone has felt/seen/experienced anything similar as such.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Magda Felgate
> To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:11 PM
> Subject: [blindza] Re: Next silly question about virtual vision, eye
> symptoms etc.
>
>
> HEY JACOB,
> I THOUGHT THAT YOU ARE ALL TOGETHER BLIND. IS IT, SO?DO YOU KNOW
THAT
> I STILL LOOK UP TO TRY TO SEE A BIRD WEN I HEAR IT CHIRP. ONE DAY MY
> EYES MIGHT SURPRISE ME. I THINK THAT IF YOU COULD SEE LIKE US, IT IS
> VERY DIFFICULT NOT TO CONJURE IMAGES UP FOR YOUR SELF AS YOU THINK
> THINGS SHOULD LOOK LIKE. SOME TIMES I THINK OF SOMETHING LOOKING
LIKE
> SO, AND WHEN I FEEL, IT I AM A BIT SHOCKED TO SEE WHAT SHAPE IT HAS.
> IT STAYS VERY INTERESTING, THOUGH.
> TO TRY TO FEEL HOW FAR AN OBJECT, IS FROM YOU WITH OUT SEEING IT,
WHERE
> SOME ONE, JUST PUT IT, ALSO STAYS A CHALLENGE TO ME. IT IS AS IF WE
> HAVE TO PROOF SOME THING TO OUR SELVES OR TEST OUR SELVES ALL THE
TIME.
> I CAN STILL SEE A BIT AND AT TIMES IT IS VERY CONFUSING. I CAN NOT
> SEE IN BRIGHT LIGHT AT ALL. IF I SIT INFRONT OF MY COMPUTER AND SOME
> ONE SITS NEXT TO ME THAT HAS TO READ ON THE SCREEN, IT FEELS AS IF A
> HOT COLE BURNS INTO MY EYES.
> I DO NOT KNOW, BUT TO ME IT FEELS AS IF PEOPLE WANTS TO JUDGE US BY
HOW
> QUICK WE ADAPT TO DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND, OH YES, OF CAUSE, WE MUST
> REMEMBER EVERY BODIES VOICE, DOES NOT MATTE WHAT NOISE IS IN THE BACK
> GROUND OR HOW LONG AGO WE'VE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THEM. YOU KNOW,
> NOW THAT WE CAN NOT SEE, WE ARE THESE, SUPER DUPER HUMAN BEINGS.
> HAHA,HEHEHEHAHAHA! LITTLE DO THEY KNOW UNDE WHAT STRAIN WE HAVE TO
> PERFORM FOR THEM, EVERY DAY!TELL ME MORE IF YOU STUMBLE ON TO
> SOMETHING NEW!
> GO WELL MY FRIEND AND INZY, WOEF WAFF!.
> MAGDA AND LIARA, FELGATE.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jacob Kruger
> To: NAPSA Blind
> Cc: BlindZA
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:02 PM
> Subject: [blindza] Next silly question about virtual vision, eye
> symptoms etc.
>
>
> Another thing the therapist in the UK tested my eyes with in 2006
was
> to see how they reacted to some really strong reading glasses, even
> though I'm a B1.
>
> In any case, to this day, if I put on reading glasses, it's like
when
> in sighted days you'd feel your pupils changing shape/trying to
adapt
> focus, etc., and even then it was a little uncomfortable, and to
this
> day it still feels rather similar.
>
> Now just wondering if this is just due to my body reacting to an
old
> memory, or is the light passing through these lenses affecting
> literally only the pupils/eyes themselves, as opposed to the brain
> reacting to the now different visual signal coming through?
>
> Also, this is not something I tried in bright lights, where I
suppose
> it could be almost like focusing light on the eye like a magnifying
> glass since that's basically what most of the cheapish reading
> glasses are similar to, but did make sure tried it out in at least
> some light to see if that affected the reaction at all - did a bit,
> but I knew had turned the lights on myself as such.
>
> I do also have another pair of normal short-sighted glasses, and my
> eyes do also seem to react differently to them even if I try to
make
> sure I don't know which is which before hand if that makes sense -
> they make me feel like my eyes are changing focus, but not so
> uncomfortably as such.
>
> This is just another slightly irrelevant question that have been
> wondering about for some time, and, FWIW, the guy in the UK
reckoned
> he was using it to test if my eyes were in fact still passing some
or
> other semi-subconscious type of signal through to my brain,
although
> it wasn't being recognised/noticed as such etc. etc.
>
> This whole thing relating to unnecessary reading glasses being
> somewhat uncomfortable especially if looking at things further away
> than a book right in front of you will also, most likely only make
> sense to previously sighted guys.
>
> Lastly, the other thing the guy in UK tested me with was different
> coloured sunglasses, of the same shapes, and he reckons I got those
> colours right roundabout 80% of the time as well FWIW.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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