Kinesthetic eyes

Jul 05, 2005 09:28

I've recently spent some time with people who are blind. It's amazing that it's possible, it seems to go a lifetime without spending time with blind people, but this is my first experience of any time beyond a brief passing exposure. I remember the first time I watched the movie of the life of Helen Keler, particularly in her adulthood times, in the movie, they showed a scene where someone tip toed into her room and stole something from her, while she was in the room, and she did not know they came in. This surprised me. I would have thought that at least she would feel the vibrations in the floor, but I really expected the real person to be able to feel the person's presence in the room, but I guess one only develops this ability if one knows it exists, and if one has it at one's disposal. I've discovered and developed ability to feel the direction someone is from me in a room. Like for istance, if I walk into a large grocery store where I know that my wife is already in there, I can feel her presence, kind of like an image that I feel, and I know which direction she is from me, and I can go over to where I feel her and find her there. But I didn't know to try to develope this ability until I met someone online who also had it, or something like it.

it was near Christmas, and I had been paged to go rescue a job at work, so I left my wife at the mall, while I went to the office. After I got the job back up, I went back to the mall to pick up my wife, but I was really tired, and didn't feel like walking all over the place looking for her. This was before we had cell phones. I just started talking to my intuition saying, "I know you know where C is, so how about showing her to me so we can go home?" Don't ask me how I knew my intuition knew this, I just knew. When I requested the information, I suddenly knew I could find her in JC Penney's and I saw in my mind's eye, the image of a box, and near the top right corner of the box was an image that looked and felt like a cocoon could be seen, and I knew somehow that was the location of my wife, but when I went there she wasn't there, but when I found her in another part of the store, she told me she had just been there. It was like I turned some kind of sensor on, and I have since experienced this with my daughter and my brother, and my supervisor, locating her at work, and when I need her. It doesn't seem to work with just anyone. I need to learn to recognize the feel of the person's vibe first.

But I expected blind people to naturally learn to use these kinds of gifts, after I read about a theory that everyone was born with these kinds of abilities, but that people who could see and hear, usually learned to depend upon those abilities and let the kinesthetic abilities go, but I haven't been finding that, at least in the two blind people I have met. Like for instance, we went to a birthday party for a friend in which two of her blind friends were invited, and my wife went in and said hello to one of the blind friends, and I said nothing but sat down beside her, and she said, "Hello, isn't Bill with you?" She evidently works strictly upon auditory and tactile senses for compensation. However, the other blind friend, I don't know yet. We gave her a ride home. She surprised me when she got out of our car. She asked me for a hug before she went to her apartment. Maybe this one experiences the people in her world more kenisthetically.
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