Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Am I still dreaming?

I woke up one morning and when looking as my bedside lamp I saw it as an open laptop.  The horizontal piece became the screen and my sleep fogged mind decided that was enough to fill in all the other pieces.  Not I consider that in line with the discussion of gestalt psychology and wonder if those discussing it ever considered that people sometimes put things into a picture that they expect to see but are not necessary there.  A person can see a face if she sees anything that is organized similar to the components of a face. 

As for the sketch related to this post, a shaky hand does not sketch very good and my attempt to show a lamp morphed into an illusion of a laptop may be hard to understand but it is an attempt.



Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Do I know you? Not!



Let me see, my mind is prone to daydreaming and coming up with odd conclusions based on limited information.  Sometimes they actually correct.  One situation  that seem common the past week is to see a person and think I know only to remember that the person I remember has aged since I last saw them some years ago and was most likely not the one I was currently viewing.  My mind is just grouping according to similar looks and drawing up a file that seems correct until I examine it.  I am not talented in sketching people but perhaps ideas.