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asking yourself, How would a blind man experience this problem differently than I? How
would he see I it differently than I m seeing it now? or deaf person? or any other sense
handicapped? or dwarf? or 6'7" basketball center? Anything to change the way you are looking
at the problem and to get you from your stuck knowledge and your neuronal habituation into
perception& )
10. Air sculpting with eyes closed (and other people not about!) begin sculpting from thin
air (or even from clay) some object d art. Keeping eyes closed, hold your sculpture in your
hand and describe its appearance in detail. See if other images don t also begin to emerge for
you.
11. Passenger when riding as a passenger in train, bus or car, describe in detail with your
eyes kept closed what you think is the appearance of the landscape or street scenes you are
riding through. See if after some of this you don t notice other images also happening.
Each of these, you see, are calling on other resources to help you visualize your way through
these situations. How many times have you had to feel your way through the dark to some goal,
even though in your own house (such as going to the bathroom without waking anyone else)?
What about all those fictional stories about being kidnapped and the victim figuring out where
he was while blindfolded in the escape car?
Another item of the same type, setting up a situational, multisensory demand upon your
imaging faculties to bring their response above conscious threshold:
12. Eat blindfolded describe the appearance, in detail, of what you re eating and see if more
pictures don t also come.
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13. Arrange four to five different delicious aromas from your spice rack. Set them before you,
unstoppered. Shuffle them around with eyes closed, and with eyes kept closed, try to identify
them. See if any of the aromas trigger further visual images. If they trigger only memories
instead, describe a scene from one of those memories in as vivid detail as you can, with eyes
kept closed, and see if other images don t develop which can then also be described.
Another type of method, again the goal being that of providing some visual stimulus from
which to begin the rapid flow of describing to pull onto line other, subtler free imagery &
14. At night with all lights out, just inside your bathroom, eyes open, orient toward the lights,
turn them on and immediately close eyes! You should find some rather elaborate after-images
or even a scene of some sort describe the Dickens out of it and see what else comes &
Variant: flicking the bathroom lights on and off several quick times with eyes open, then closing
eyes and proceeding as above. See how your after-imagery comes out with the lights finally out;
and with the lights finally on.
15. Obtain a simple stroboscope (IF you are not epileptic!). Set the stroboscopic light to
somewhere between 4 and 12 beats per second. Look into that stroboscopic light with eyes kept
closed describe as best you can the evoked colors and patterns for awhile and be alert to
other images also happening.
IF no other kind of image happens after 10 15 minutes of this, start describing some imagined
or remembered scene in detail, while continuing to look into the strobe light with closed eyes
and be alert to such imagery as may develop for you. If nothing additional still comes, try again
with the strobe set to different frequencies, whatever frequency makes the greatest color and
pattern display to your closed eyes.
Another type of method
16. Read a good, fully entertaining novel, or at least a story long enough to really get into.
Then with tape recorder set up and eyes closed, word-paint some scenes from the story
besides those described by the author. See if more also then unfolds. Or, remember a very
favorite story or novel and do likewise with that. Again, see if you can pick up on noticing other
images also happening as you get well into the rapid descriptive flow, so that you can move
from directed to undirected free-association imagery.
The key in any event is (1) to get anything at all started from which to describe; (2) to describe [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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