Drawing Three At A Time

[Mrs Glockrunner]

Can't imagine how this guy's brain functions -- fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzrci-Sn5ow

[janice6]

10 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

Can't imagine how this guy's brain functions -- fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzrci-Sn5ow

Speaking of that:

This is a post that I have done previously.  I say this again since it's so remarkable to me, even now.

  Since I retired I spend a lot of time on the "net" reading. 

One dark   (and stormy night, as Snoopy would say) night  I was engrossed in "reading".  I also like to sing to myself now since I now have hearing aides and for the first time in my life I could understand the words to the songs I loved from back in the 50's and 60's.  I could always remember melodies, but rarely could remember/understand  the words to the songs.

So, this night I was reading from the computer monitor while at my desk.  I had a song running that I liked, so I started singing the words to the song while reading the words to the story.  Suddenly I thought to myself, what the hell?  I have never been able to multi-task before.  Yet, here I was reading a story and following the plot, while singing the words to the song without any conflict between the two.

At the same time I was thinking "How can I do this, I have never been able to do this before!".  What was amazing to me, was that I had three things going on at once in my head and there was zero conflict between them.  I was/am stunned that I could do this for the first time in my life.

It was bizarre to me to hear in my head all three of these things going on.  It was as though there were three people talking in my head and not interfering with each other.  (schizophrenia?)  

A side effect of this is that in my 80's my memory is far, far better than it has ever been before.  It is still getting better all the time now.  My wife is amazed that she has always had a better memory than I did but now mine is far better than hers, according to her.

I'm not comparing my mind to the article, just my mind today compared to "yesterday".  I'm simply saying I am  proof that you can improve brain power even at an advanced age, if you just do more things at once. I suspect it's an exercise of both the right and left brain at once.

[minervadoe]

25 minutes ago, janice6 said:

I also like to sing to myself now since I now have hearing aides and for the first time in my life I could understand the words to the songs I loved from back in the 50's and 60's. 

I have had my hearing tested, and while not perfect they said it was okay.  But in a crowded auditorium, all the sound blurs together and conversation is much more difficult for me than others.  And the lyrics to songs?  Forget it.  They may as well be speaking Swahili.

26 minutes ago, janice6 said:

I'm simply saying I am  proof that you can improve brain power even at an advanced age, if you just do more things at once. I suspect it's an exercise of both the right and left brain at once.

Is all of that Internet-ing keeping your brain active?  Or is it some other mental activity / pass time you have going on?

 

12 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

Can't imagine how this guy's brain functions -- fantastic!

I still wrestle with drawing stick figures.  Uncanny. 

[janice6]

23 minutes ago, minervadoe said:

I have had my hearing tested, and while not perfect they said it was okay.  But in a crowded auditorium, all the sound blurs together and conversation is much more difficult for me than others.  And the lyrics to songs?  Forget it.  They may as well be speaking Swahili.

Is all of that Internet-ing keeping your brain active?  Or is it some other mental activity / pass time you have going on?

 

I still wrestle with drawing stick figures.  Uncanny. 

Crowded areas are still a significant problem to me, as are people suddenly speaking too loud so that I hear what they say all running together.

I believe that what is helping my memory, is the act of using both the right brain (purportedly logical side) and the left brain (purportedly the artistic , musical, side) at the same time.  I believe this provides "interconnects" between the right and left brain, thereby massively increasing your consciousness, and making it possible to run various thought processes independently.......................................  Or, I'm full of ****.     I suspect either is a great possibility.

One of my daughters is a commercial artist, and is also left handed.  No one else in my family is left handed.  I have no artistic ability myself.  But, I have taken some drawings of hers and converted them to three dimensional sculptures in wood and metal for decoration in my home over the years.  the Vikings football team symbol graces my fireplace carved out of wood.

I tell her that I can copy anything, but cannot create things as she does.

She and I have talked about this for years.  She has little cognition of mechanical, logical, engineering processes, while I have no ability to create out of nothing, artistic concepts that she does all the time.  We are mentally as different as night and day. 

However, when she has a drawing or picture she says has "something wrong" and she can't see what it is, it is obviously to me and we collaborate often on this.  I do have some creative traits with numerous patents in Electronics, but again, those are all logical characteristics.

Her biggest problem in developing her artistic talent was in perspective.  She couldn't understand the concept of perspective in visual arts.  Once to help her, I drew two cubes on a plane with converging lines into a distance, you know "Perspective".  Also called, the vanishing point. I drew the two cubes with the outside faces seen and the adjacent faces unseen.  She couldn't see anything wrong with this picture.  I pointed out that with a converging, vanishing point, you couldn't possibly see those two faces but you could see the adjacent faces of the cube.  (I hope I'm not being confusing here).

She finally saw how the world was seen in perspective for her drawings, but I was always amazed that this wasn't patently obvious to her.  My training for that was drafting which I don't consider art, but mechanical drawing.

How we see things in our mind and how impossible concepts are sometimes not obvious to the viewer are fascinating to me.  My other three children have an engineering mentality, not artistic.