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Linda Fried · 05-22-2003, 01:46 PM

I have long said "I'm totally right-brained", and blamed my lack of discipline on being so. It's a convenient excuse.

Artists are probably more right-brained in their (our) make up. I don't consider myself emotionally frail, but I have all my life been told how "different", "unique", etc., I am -- and believe me, it's not a compliment in many instances!

I have always marched to the beat of my own, singular, drummer. I feel things more than anyone I know; I am an extreme empathetic. It follows, therefore, that I see things differently, because I feel them.

I have long kept a pad of paper on my nightstand, because I will awaken with a vision or a phrase (most often) running through a dream, or my conscious or semiconscious brain. It might be a word. Often it is. I need to write it down, because I have learned that it is some "divine" inspiration, and I don't know the importance it holds yet, whether it will become a painting, a poem, a story, a book. I just know it means something. Other times it will be in a dream, but one from which I awake, knowing I must write it down.

My waking hours are the same. I am often in my own world, and having been divorced for nearly 8 years, and having the luxury of living alone, I find it makes me more of that "different, unique" person I have long been told I am.

I'm almost to the point where I am no longer fit company for any living being -- often myself!

But I thank God every day that I was blessed (and cursed) with my way of feeling and seeing things.

Now if I could just translate them to the canvas successfully!

Linda

Here's a link to determining your left/right brain dominance:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~devstud/advisor...dominance.html

05-22-2003, 01:46 PM	#19
Linda Fried Juried Member Joined: May 2003 Location: Back to Scottsdale! (AZ) Posts: 44	You're Not Alone! I have long said "I'm totally right-brained", and blamed my lack of discipline on being so. It's a convenient excuse. Artists are probably more right-brained in their (our) make up. I don't consider myself emotionally frail, but I have all my life been told how "different", "unique", etc., I am -- and believe me, it's not a compliment in many instances! I have always marched to the beat of my own, singular, drummer. I feel things more than anyone I know; I am an extreme empathetic. It follows, therefore, that I see things differently, because I feel them. I have long kept a pad of paper on my nightstand, because I will awaken with a vision or a phrase (most often) running through a dream, or my conscious or semiconscious brain. It might be a word. Often it is. I need to write it down, because I have learned that it is some "divine" inspiration, and I don't know the importance it holds yet, whether it will become a painting, a poem, a story, a book. I just know it means something. Other times it will be in a dream, but one from which I awake, knowing I must write it down. My waking hours are the same. I am often in my own world, and having been divorced for nearly 8 years, and having the luxury of living alone, I find it makes me more of that "different, unique" person I have long been told I am. I'm almost to the point where I am no longer fit company for any living being -- often myself! But I thank God every day that I was blessed (and cursed) with my way of feeling and seeing things. Now if I could just translate them to the canvas successfully! Linda Here's a link to determining your left/right brain dominance: http://www.mtsu.edu/~devstud/advisor...dominance.html __________________ If one is to love oneself, one must behave in ways that one can admire. (Irvin Yalom)