Always Looking Up

[woodelf]

If you don't know of me, I am totally blind and when I'm at my pc keyboard I always find myself looking up...why is this? Is it because I have nothing on which to focus i.e. a screen, even though I have a speech system. I'm getting fed up of all these stiff necks I keep getting...even as I write this! Ta Muchly.

[20SilkCut]

Hi Woodelf, i just wondered, have you always been blind, or did you lose your sight at some stage in life?

[tamborine]

Maybe a headrest would ease the problem? OR

a nose ring & chain fixed to shirt button - only joking.....smile ;)

[Mamyalynne]

I think you may need someone more specialised to reply and confirm the reasons. I had a dear friend wha was totally blind and often as he spoke to you he would look skyward, so there may well be a logical reason.

[craft1948]

having thought about this it's the first time I've noticed that the few blind people I know have a tendency to do this as well..........I think it's something to do with your hearing being more acute in that position, though that may be totally daft.

[Mamyalynne]

That does indeed make sense, it does appear that people are listening more intently, I agree.

[Mamyalynne]

By the way woodelf (lovely name) how did you get on with your request for book readers? I so wished I could have volunteeered but as visually impaired myself it would have been difficult. I was so impressed with the response to your request though, what great people on here.

Take care.

M

[karenmac60]

Hi woodelf, as a follow on to Mamyalynne's post - I noticed you had a shed load of volunteers to read to you but you wanted to take it one at a time. When you've worked your way through them all - give me a shout and I'll be more than happy to help out. Apparently I'm a frustrated actress, so it should give you a laugh if nothing else :) x

[Mamyalynne]

Oh wonderful karen, then you could do all the differenet accents that would be great for reading, well done you!

[Jemisa]

It seems it happens when one sings too, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles used to look up. Or perhaps its the concentration of playing the piano?

Jem.

[mollykins]

I can see how you could put things on to the computer, but how does it read our answers, to you? and what happens if someones spelling is rubbish and the system can't work it out?

[eash]

I found this from over a year ago!

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question706580.html

[woodelf]

Blimey!...what a response and where to start?...well, Hi again 20 SC, I've been totally blind since 1979 and it's okay Tambourine, I was thinking of wearing a flat cap with a brick tied to the peak!...and M, I now have three readers who are going to do some erm reading lol but I would like to accept Karen's offer if Karen would like to email me at [email protected]. Molly, the speech system reads everything back to me and I can check out the spelinj letter by lettur lol if need be.I don't think one sense takes over when another sense is defunct and I seem to remember sighted people when thinking looking upwards...oh well, I guess it's the flat cap for me...smile...and I agree M, there are some great people out there in AB land.

[boxtops]

Morning woodelf - and don't forget, do post again when your three or four good people have done their reading stint for you, there are others of us who would be willing to help too, I think this is a great idea!

[jno]

From a website on lying:

When asked a question a "normally organized" right-handed person looks (from your viewpoint, looking at them):
Up and to the Left
Indicates: Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to "Imagine a purple buffalo", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Constructed" a purple buffalo in their mind.
Up and to the Right
Indicates: Visually Remembered Images (Vr)
If you asked someone to "What color was the first house you lived in?", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Remembered" the color of their childhood home.
To the Left
Indicates: Auditory Constructed (Ac)
If you asked someone to "Try and create the highest the sound of the pitch possible in your head", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Auditorily Constructed" this this sound that they have never heard of.
To the Right
Indicates: Auditory Remembered (Ar)
If you asked someone to "Remember what their mother's voice sounds like ", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Auditorily Remembered " this sound.
Down and to the Left
Indicates: Feeling / Kinesthetic (F)
If you asked someone to "Can you remember the smell of a campfire? ", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they used recalled a smell, feeling, or taste.
Down and To the Right
Indicates: Internal Dialog (Ai)
This is the direction of someone eyes as they "talk to themselves".

[woodelf]

As usual, the same high impact research from jno...smile...Thanks jno, but too heavy to read on a Sunday afternoon and anyway, if I wanted to lie, I'd shut my eyes anyway! lol and Boxtops, I think you offered before and as I have at least a couple of other books to be read, may I accept your offer too?

[jno]

no problems, woodelf, I wasn't expecting you to memorise it all (or lie about it). It just demonstrates that what people do with their eyes doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what they're looking at, but may be connected to what they're thinking about. It doesn't actually list 'looking up', but perhaps you could monitor yourself to see what mental operations you're performing when you do this?

[Mctavish]

Hello woodelf it is lovely to see you back with us. I hope you are well and as usual I send you lots of hugs and smiles. Are you still painting those wonderful pictures.
God Bless you. Jean

[woodelf]

Hi Jean, I aint been away, just been popping up in other topics, but it's stil nice to get your hugs and smiles...smile! Yes, I'm still painting and I've started another one of my black and silver paintings this weekend, i.e. a landscape under a full moon; all is in black, with the moon's highlights picked out in silver - or so I hope to achieve!...Big Smiles and Hugs!

[Mctavish]

I shall certainly be looking forward to seeing your new painting, sounds interesting. A few more hugs and smiles to be going on with. Jean