Saturday, March 29, 2014

your brain


This breakthrough swept the world as you know. 

If you could bundle the energy that people wept and focus it, she'd be healed on the spot. Don't you think? 

Because her experience is inconceivable even when you try. Have you attempted at one time or another some kind of experiment that tests yourself for awhile what it is like? 

She's led into a room, she trusts completely, how to dress, what to put in her mouth, everything.  She is sat down and handed a page that she sets on her lap. Her fingertips tell her the test will involve familiar things; days of the week, months of the year. Those are the words she'll be hearing. She refers to the page for reference. And this one personal scene as she takes in a new reality moves the whole world on a deeply personal point. 

And isn't your impulse to leap through the screen and hug her body and keep talking? I felt the whole world feeling that.  And we've seen this before with the little kids and it gets me and will get me every time. 

5 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

AllenS comment moved me all over again.

Synova said...

She probably thought it was high pitched because she can probably sort of "hear" really low pitches and really deep vibrations, just not in her ears.

deborah said...

Great insight, Synova, I wondered about how she would have a reference point.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Compensation methods for the deaf/hard of hearing could be said to be as sophisticated as the blind/hard of seeing. I would imagine.

AllenS said...

I had a deaf friend in the 70's and he could feel vibrations from music in his ears.