Diana Rajchel » imagination http://blog.dianarajchel.com a sense of humor,a sense of honor,a sense of the absurd,a sense of the Divine Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:47:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The limits? of imagination http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/02/27/the-limits-of-imagination/ http://blog.dianarajchel.com/2010/02/27/the-limits-of-imagination/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:33:28 +0000 di http://blog.dianarajchel.com/?p=427 Color exerciseColor exercise
When I was a really little kid, no older than kindergarten, I would lie in bed for a little while before my mother came to get us up, staring at these colorful curtains with blocks of different patterns and colors. As I did, I would challenge myself to imagine things: “Think of a purple giraffe!” or, “What would the neighbor boy look like with a clown nose?” It wasn’t conscious, the exercise of imagination, but it still happened on a regular basis.

Then one day I challenged myself to think of a color I’d never seen.

And I couldn’t do it.

I always get a little sad, thinking about that day.

More than thirty years later, every so often, I try to imagine a color I’ve never seen.  Sometimes I feel like I’m almost getting there. But then I stop. And it makes me a little sad, like I’ve discovered some limit to what used to be a limitless mind. But then I try again, and I can feel my third eye buzzing, and it’s like I can almost see it, this little mystery of the universe – the color I’ve never seen.

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